<p>From the Orientation, I learned that I can check what books I need to purchase and choose to purchase them via the UCD Online Bookstore</p>
<p>[UC</a> Davis Bookstore](<a href=“http://www.ucdavisbookstore.com%5DUC”>http://www.ucdavisbookstore.com)</p>
<p>My question is, what does “Choose REQ Text or E” mean? It’s under some books, whereas the other ones would say REQUIRED, BOOKSTORE RECOMMENDS, or OPTIONAL.</p>
<p>A little help please, and thank you!</p>
<p>well, i think that the “e” stands for “electronic” book, so the online version of the book.as for req text…i dunno. sry.</p>
<p>Hmm…I can’t find it on Google either. I’ll give the bookstore a call and let everyone know what results I get.</p>
<p>so how do we know if we really need the ‘optional’ textbooks?</p>
<p>You probably don’t, but for certain classes, it might help I suppose x_X Going to call soon, maybe in a few hours to ask about the REQ text or E thing</p>
<p>I checked the textbooks I need and one of them (Chem 2A) has no ISBN number. The is a lot of missing information. I do not know how to track down the book anywhere. Will they update it soon? Or am I just seeing things?</p>
<p>It should be updated soon. If not, your best bet would be to actually visit the bookstore during welcome week before instruction begins. They know it’s a new quarter with new students, so there will be a lot of staff members there if you have questions. I believe it wouldn’t be too difficult to locate the book. CHE 2A is a very popular class freshmen take and I don’t doubt that there will be a whole section of the bookstore dedicated to CHE 2A books/manuals. I wouldn’t stress too much about it, your chem professor will tell you more about required texts during the first day of class.</p>