With permission of the mods, you can see it directly here:
Pilot Training & Ground Studies - Electrocution's Aviation Books
There is a link from the big picture on the front of the CAPT website for EASA Pro Pilot Studies - check out the big ad on the right.
As for cost reduction, it will only be in the order of £2-300 - the cost of the course is in the classrom stuff. The printing is only a small part of the story.
The other guy's approval means nothing in this day and age - logic would say it should, but you can't even subcontract an FTO like you could in the old days (when the trains ran on time). Sorry, it's an ATO now
You can use a disk imager like Acronis to take an image of your hard disk once you have it set up how you want, and every 6 months or so you can restore it. Windows needs to be reinstalled regularly anyway (which you obviously know all about) as it collects a lot of crud on the hard drive over time (it even used to slow down regularly about 3 in the afternoon, and you had to reboot to liven the memory up). Ah, those were the days....