I am a physics student who has just started my master's program and am taking a course on classical non-equilibrium thermodynamics. I am looking for a book that can help me learn this subject. Are there any online books (kindle, springer,etc.) on this topic?
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So, if by classical you mean phenomenological, that is anything non-statistical, then I would suggest the general review book Lavenda: Thermodynamics of irreversible processes, see here, in which each chapter is one flavor of the subject with many references, the first five chapters is reasonably easy to read, the rest is not so.
But I also urge you to start with three very readable and rightly famous classical papers that "launched" the subject.
(1) Eckart: The Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes. I. The Simple Fluid https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.58.267
(2) Bridgman: The Thermodynamics of Plastic Deformation and Generalized Entropy https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.22.56
(3) Tolman & Fine: On the Irreversible Production of Entropy https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.20.51
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