<p>Hi......................Pierre? or anyone who can answer..........</p>
<p>I am buying my son's textbooks.....and am wondering for </p>
<p>CH 101-General Chem-lab-notebook& AC code-custom pack----119.00 used</p>
<p>CH 101L- Chem Lab Manual-Chem Lab Notebook-----------85.00 used</p>
<p>Is the CH lab book requirementsincluded with the CH 101-custom pack, or do they need to be purchased separately?</p>
<p>Also, did you buy from the bookstore? I put a few ISBN's into Amazon and don't get anything in stock. Do they customize every ISBN so you cannot but the books elsewhere?
The total for freshman books-requirements only, not the recommended book= 745.00!
OUCH!</p>
<p>Yeah you only want to get the required books - never had a professor that used or even talked about the recommended bookstores. I never buy from the bookstore if I can - usually are some used books on Amazon etc… (got all of mine from Barnes & Nobles this semester and it was still cheaper than the bookstore…even though they are owned by Barnes & Nobles - granted they were all just regular engineering textbooks, no access codes - that mostly is a freshman deal).</p>
<p>You should be able to find the chem lab manual on Amazon or Half.com for a good price ($40 or so if I remember?), the lab notebook is a grid carbon copy notebook (you write something on one page and it makes an identical copy on the next page).</p>
<p>What the bookstore does is package a whole bunch of stuff together and gives it its own ISBN # so you cannot find that elsewhere. You need to email your professor and figure out what the components of the package are. The chemistry textbook is a “custom” edition for Clemson but it’s only usually few pages different from the regular edition of the textbook so you could probably get by with that (photocopy a few pages from a friend if necessary) - you can ask about that too. The access code when I was a freshman was from a program called MasteringChemistry - might have changed now so ask about that too but you can buy your own code on their website when you register (and you can also buy them online from people).</p>
<p>The key really is to find out the components and do the math about whether it is cheaper to buy from the bookstore or not. It’s a pain freshman year but as you get into higher level classes where there’s just a textbook per class it’s a lot easier (at least that’s been my experience in civil engineering).</p>
<p>Let me know if you have any more textbook questions or if I didn’t cover anything! I know it’s a lot to handle.</p>
<p>Thank you for the reply, I think I will just buy what is recommended for this semester from the bookstore, and if he doesn’t open them, if they are not needed he can return them.</p>
<p>One more question, I was thinking about buying a laptop for him, 11.6 inches, without a CD drive. They are really light and portable, and the battery lasts a long time. </p>
<p>Do you think not having a CD drive laptop is gonna be an issue for an engineering major. Probably only will use it for the first two years, as they don’t really last that long for us.</p>
<p>I don’t recall having to use the CD drive for any schoolwork in my first 2 years</p>