Recommended books

Why is it that the books the OCA recommend to accompany the course are never cheap.  Up until my last module, L2 Progressing with Digital Photography, a course reader was always supplied with the module manual.  Now it seems that you need a course reader but you have to buy it yourself and they are never cheap even with Amazon used.

For Gesture & Meaning I need to have;

Wells, Liz (2009) Photography: a Critical Introduction (4th edition). Abingdon: Routledge, this is an essential part of this course.

If you’ve studied photography at Level 1, you may already have a copy of Clarke, Graham (1997) The Photograph: A Visual and Cultural History. Oxford

Answers on me having both readers is no, I didn't received these books so have to purchase them.  I've already paid nearly £900 for the landscape module, then another £250 to transfer to this course and now I have to get two books for a total of nearly £30. 

Well, I've ordered them so hopefully they'll be here fairly soon.  Now it's time to get on with Project 1.  I've got a new Nikon 1 v2 with a prime lens and a zoom lens so can nip about the town to get some images to illustrate exercise 1.