Well, Viscaria has already got a long list of lab texts and a short list of books that she was shopping for in 1222. As I understand it, our options for acquiring lab texts are:
- People could add to that list that Viscaria was already shopping for
- they could acquire resources on their own, or
- they could make it council business and get the princeps to do it (ie, best skill amongst us)
Viscaria has Com +2 Bargain +4 ("for souls" specialty applies to human/animal services/acquisition) = +6 for books
Fiona has Com +2 Bargain +3 ("service for service") = +5
I think we're the top contenders.
I honestly can't think of what else we might trade for books. We have a scribe and permancarius, but not a binder or illuminator (unless they're part of the 15bps of unspecified specialists), so we can't trade copies of books.