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>You can probably get an even better impression of the books by visiting a university library or large city >library. PMJI, but as my wife works in InterLibrary Loan I know you can also get, free of charge, nearly any book from any library in the U.S., assuming you're willing to wait. Just go to your local library with the ISBN of the book you're interested in. They'll search all the city, country, University and state libraries in the U.S. for your request and (assuming some library somewhere has a copy) they'll route it to the library for your checkout. They'll even do searches for you (I had my wife do a 3DS search and she came up with some very interesting things I had never heard of). Depending upon the book and how good the InterLibrary Loan people are in the servicing and requesting libraries, you can either have it within a week or several months. But it beats paying for a book you've never seen. This is a great service that not too many people are aware of still (even though it's been in existance for about five years).