title: Browse first, buy later.
abstract: The writer john Ruskin once said, 'Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books'. Time and money are precious for all students but particularly for nursing students who regularly have to juggle theory with practice placements. How often have we bought a textbook for it to sit unopened on a bookshelf, or after buying it realised that it was not reader friendly?