Foundations of Nursing E-Book

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I'm looking for the Foundations of Nursing E-book. I know this is sold as a bundle at the evolve website, does anyone know where you can get it separately? Or does anyone want to sell, or share? Thanks

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I certainly wish you the best of luck in trying to obtain your book for school. You might try Amazon, Barnes and Noble, (there is a discount textbook website but I can't think of it at this time-sorry about that) or see if your school happens to sell it seperately. However, as per terms of service, we cannot allow for buying and selling on the allnurses site.

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The e-book can't be purchased or shared, anyway. It's locked to the computer's hardware serial numbers. I had toyed around with printing it out as a PDF but I lost my motivation once I was done with nursing school (when I finally had the time).

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I certainly wish you the best of luck in trying to obtain your book for school. You might try Amazon, Barnes and Noble, (there is a discount textbook website but I can't think of it at this time-sorry about that) or see if your school happens to sell it seperately. However, as per terms of service, we cannot allow for buying and selling on the allnurses site.

I did not realize the "sell" thing, sorry. I have the book I just want the darn e-book, I have spent hours searching for it.

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I did not realize the "sell" thing, sorry. I have the book I just want the darn e-book, I have spent hours searching for it.
You can buy it separately on the Elsevier web site... Not worth the cash, IMO.
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You can buy it separately on the Elsevier web site... Not worth the cash IMO.[/quote']

Ok I must be blind. I can't seem to find the link, and why is it not worth the cash. I'm an ADDer and I do better reading off of my laptop verses a book with pages as thin as a phone. I don't know why. Yes Living|Distracted for a while now.

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Ok I must be blind. I can't seem to find the link, and why is it not worth the cash. I'm an ADDer and I do better reading off of my laptop verses a book with pages as thin as a phone. I don't know why. Yes Living|Distracted for a while now.
Well, I can't seem to find out how to get there, either. I know for certain that all of the Evolve books were, as of a few months ago, available for individual purchase off of the Evolve site - I bought two of them that way. I'm not sure how I found them, though.

Why not worth it? They're not faithful replicas of the print version as are so many eBook PDFs floating around out there. Many of the tables are so small as to be unreadable unless you open them separately and even then, the layouts are often screwed up. Some figures are also not licensed into the electronic copy. Additionally, you cannot print out (you can copy and paste into Word, though) sections. They're not PDFs at all; they're their own proprietary format and they are not visually laid out very well at all.

What is nice is that you can search for terms (and the search engine is very quick), highlight sections, and add your own notes.

The licensing is also a little touchy. I had a glitch when I tried to update the software which rendered the whole package unuseable. Even after hours of help with tech support, still no go. Fortunately, I'm very meticulous about doing backups and I had my whole drive imaged so I was able to restore it in less than an hour. I'm guessing that most nursing students aren't quite as tech saavy as I am.

If you didn't already have the "phone book," I'd say go for the eBook alone. Since you do, though, the $80 or so that they'll charge you for the e-version is pretty extreme.

If you really want it, go through your bookstore or call the Evolve folks directly. They are pretty responsive.

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