trust me dopel...you just have to be patient when it comes to compounding without books. Its kinda like taking a short-cut with books but doing it too much would take the fun out of compounding, but then again, doing it step by step making eqs after eqs to make the eq that makes the bigger eqs(don't know if you can understand that) is something that just gets boring and frustrating after a while. In the end though, if you just stick to compounding for a bit and memorize the most basic compounds, you'll be fine.