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Thank you Merlin. I looked into availability of used books and it looks good! Thanks again for your help.

You cannot access the book before you purchase the course, no. I'm going to go deep here so hang on. 

Most textbooks for general elective courses are written to a standard. Each publisher has to hit on the same topics. If you open up three general chemistry textbooks and look at the table of contents, you will see what I'm saying. It's really all the same stuff, just explained differently.

Where they are competing for your dollars is HOW they explain the material.

The books are written to a standard because they all need to prepare you for standardized testing. For example, the MCAT biology can be studied for using almost ANY college level biology textbook. This is a fact, because every university or community college in the country will use different textbooks, but they all prepare people for the same exam. So my point is, just grab a textbook for cheap. Let's say you're taking General Chemistry. Buy any cheap $1 textbook from 1-10 years ago. Next, you can get the StraighterLine syllabus for Gen Chem on the SL website. Now you will compare the topics in the syllabus with the topics in your textbook, and you should do this BEFORE you study. It's that simple.
First break down the syllabus and use any cheap textbook and you'll be fine. Next you need to take high quality notes while you read. Do the chapter exercises and practice problems in the textbook and do more practice online and in other textbooks. If you are a full time student, you can get through an entire textbook in 1-2 weeks. Next, you sign up for the SL course. It's that simple. If you want to save a lot of money, you can pre-read 2-4 textbooks and sign up for all of those courses in a 1 month membership block.