It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

The sooner and easier they buy into it, the better they are.

I kind of like this one. I think it's simpler to operate, and it's simpler to read. But I would rather have my old one.