Let's face it, time is a valuable resource. Between classes, extracurricular activities and partying, no one has that much time left. Many of us have sat on our beds at 2:00 a.m. ready to begin the assigned reading due the next morning, only to wake up, fashionably late of course, with the book still sitting open to page one. In this situation, does one dare to go to class anyway without any preparation hoping that the professor won't call on you? No way. Do we drop a fiver and change on the latest edition of "Cliffs' Notes"? Of course not. What do we do?

We turn to Books-a-Minute. Though I am a big Austen fan at heart, even I recognize the impossibility of reading one of Jane Austen's works in a single night. With Books-A-Minute, I don't have to. Here's a summary of the Collected Works of Jane Austen. "Female Lead: I secretly love Male Lead. He must never know. Male Lead: I secretly love Female Lead. She must never know. (They find out.) THE END." With concise and poignant language like that exhibited by Books-A-Minute, my professor will never know I secretly spent the night at Monkey Bar.