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Post edited by Hmmm... on 29/12/2018 at 18:19.

Doing home learning course in Counselling.

Sorry if you mentioned it before Vee, but what are you going to be studying? Is it an OU course?

Im waiting on recieving my course books for my home study. Got my welcome back, which includes a free a4 note pad and pen! Wonder if they will actually send me someone to do the course for me :P Oh well as soon asi get the rest of the stuff i can crack on with it.

Have you considered the obvious option HM and casually befriend somebody else on your course (preferably female) and use your charms to gain access to her dorm/room/flat and use her books? It's a win/win situation in my eyes!

Big night of football tonight with Spurs Champions League début, nervous of how it's going to go...

I've found a very basic "Optics" book online. Not sure how deep it goes, but seems to be quite easy to follow. Also just been talking to some other students that say most will end up in their wrappers. I think the general consensus between us all is to buy whatever books we remain glued to at the library!

Worth considering that some may also be online, you never know.

I'm heading to the eye hospital tomorrow hoping to get some photos signed by a member of the GOC to confirm my likeness to the photo (how fun). Hoping to obtain an e-mail address for one or two optoms I know who did say I could buy a few books from them.

I'll browse eBay and see what I can find. I don't think it's compulsory to buy the list, but I'll be buying a fair few!

Tried ebay?

1st Year Core textbooks (highly recommended for purchase)
Introduction to Visual Optics
Clinical Visual Optics
Optics
Clinical procedures in primary eye care
Principles of ophthalmic lenses
Basic pathology
Human physiology: Cells to systems
Physiology of the eye
The Eye: Basic Sciences in Practice
Medical statistics at a glance
Clinical anatomy of the visual system
The human eye : structure and function

That is the main list, there is one double this length for recommended reading (and I think nearly twice the price also). Please bear in mind there are 3 years each with their own lists of similar lengths.

Hopefully spending the time in the library will be good to review which ones are really recommended for the course and which ones aren't. Still, at least that provides some content for my new site. Hopefully advertising would be more effective on this site rather than the ghost one, but I'll wait until it's functioning properly first!

HM wrote:

> I also received a list of recommended books for purchase today.
> £666 in total. I'm taking that as a sign that I'll be
> living in the optometry library borrowing theirs rather than
> anything else! Still my win will offset that to £636 (or
> half a book :p)
>

What books are they?