IPod Nano + new MacBook Pro

Hi,
I'm planning on getting my wife an iPod Nano for Xmas. I'll be using my MacBook Pro as the enabling/syncing computer for it.
My dilemma:
The bulk of the music my wife is likely to transfer to her new iPod is all located on hard CDs, i.e. not in my iTunes library.
Is my only solution to buy the Super CD/DVD drive for the MBPro, and then load the music into my iTunes library from which I can manually sync her stuff?
Or is there another solution not involving any additional hardware?
Many thanks for your help!
Andre

Thanks for your reply!
Actually, many of the CDs have been ripped into iTunes on my old iMac (2004, running OS X 10.4), which is still a viable machine (I still record with it), but the OS is incompatible with the newer versions of iTunes. In fact, the iTunes store doesn't even acknowledge that I have a legitimate copy of iTunes. So practically the only thing I can do with that iMac is transfer music into its iTunes library from sources like CDs.
The MacBook Pro I have is the retina display version, so buying the Super CD drive would be the way to go.
But your reply also hints at another solution that I had not considered:
I do have a external G drive with lots of capacity still. It does have a USB 2.0 port which works with the 3.0 ports on the MBP. I suppose I could transfer the iMac library contents as MP3s onto the G drive, and then load those into the iTunes library on the MBP. Would that work?
I think I may still get a CD/DVD drive for the MacBook, but this manual transfer may at least be a workaround of some kind.
Thanks again for your help.
Best,
Andre

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