Seconded! Most library books are read only a few times; libraries are generally eager to order books if they know they’ll have an audience. If you make a request in person, you could mention that your local EA group has multiple people interested in the book, if you are a member of such a group—I imagine that would be helpful.
My university group is planning to do a reading group around this book next year. While discussing how we’d all get access to a copy without each individually buying one, we discovered to our delight that it’s available through our university library as en e-book. Just putting this out there because if any other student group is planning something similar, check if your uni library has or can get e-book access, too.
Another option would be to buy it for your university library, but ask them (or ask a sympathetic philosophy professor to ask them if students can’t directly request this) to put it into short loans, 2-hour loan, high use, or whatever your university calls the section for books that can only be consulted for short periods. But the e-book is way more convenient and will thus probably increase the number of people who read and attend your group each week/fortnight/month.
Seconded! Most library books are read only a few times; libraries are generally eager to order books if they know they’ll have an audience. If you make a request in person, you could mention that your local EA group has multiple people interested in the book, if you are a member of such a group—I imagine that would be helpful.
My university group is planning to do a reading group around this book next year. While discussing how we’d all get access to a copy without each individually buying one, we discovered to our delight that it’s available through our university library as en e-book. Just putting this out there because if any other student group is planning something similar, check if your uni library has or can get e-book access, too.
Another option would be to buy it for your university library, but ask them (or ask a sympathetic philosophy professor to ask them if students can’t directly request this) to put it into short loans, 2-hour loan, high use, or whatever your university calls the section for books that can only be consulted for short periods. But the e-book is way more convenient and will thus probably increase the number of people who read and attend your group each week/fortnight/month.