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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gnfnrf" data-source="post: 3230764" data-attributes="member: 2373">What's the point?  Any library that you live less than 75 feet from and can occupy with prying eyes and invisible servants is a library that you effectively own.  And if you own it, why not just read the books yourself during downtime?  Or have read them in your backstory?  Reading books doesn't get you skill ranks or special knowledge, unless you also spend the skill ranks or feats or whatever.  Reading books can get you specific information (Eberron has rules for research), but if you don't know what you're looking for, it's still a knowledge check to remember later.The only time I can see this being useful is if there is a library you newly own (say, from bad men you just killed) which has a critical piece of information (instructions for a dark ritual) SOMEWHERE in it, and time pressure to find it (before they destroy the world).--gnfnrf</blockquote>