I do not know how primitive your library is, or how the library system over there is, and where exactly you live, so this info might be useless, but here goes:
- If there is an universitiy library accessable from where you are, it is generally possible to become a member of one even when not a student.
- Some libraries have the option of ordering books to loan from other libraries in the country, against a fee.
-some even have the possibility of ordering books from libraries abroad, against a rather large fee...
- Amazon also sells second hand books (the English one anyway, I presume other versions too), I once bought a second hand book for my studies there and paid less including international postal than then new sold out version would have costed in the shop here.
- there must be may more second hand bookstores and sites you can use. Check them regularly for bargains, and also try putting an advertisement for a book you are looking for in particular on online bootsale-sites. Always works for me.
- write a letter to your library explaining how their idiotic 2 book rule is insane and is actually against the government's policy of improving literacy and learning in the country (which I presume you have, all countries do), and therefore unpatriottic.
Edited by Aelfgifu - 21-Oct-2007 at 20:39