One of the reasons I joined IOLI was just for this purpose. I've been able
to borrow many books and was able to then decide if it was something for me to
buy or not to spend my money on.
Yes; for when you're trying to determine what you'd like to do next, or whether a book that's been reviewed in a guild's bulletin will *really* be what you want, a guild with a good-sized library is your answer. But you have to have plenty of time. Which E-bay doesn't allow you, as a rule.
It's true that, with Arachne, some of the answers to Weronika's questions may continue to come in long past the bidding is over, but she got a good overview of a lot of books she was interested in within *hours* of her posting the question - in time enough to help her decide whether to bid and how much. She could not have got as much info, in equally short time, if she tried to access her local guild library, much less the IOLI one.
General "rules" always need to be "tempered" by *individual* circumstances... :)
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