They still weren't all that expensive. It's all relative. They were what I consider to be normal price (£4.99), although I had to wait a few months for them to drop to that price, and the agency publishers no longer seem to agree with me that that is normal price (which is partly why I've stopped buying things).
Anyway, I went for a library loan for my current book (Without a Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal, which is book 3 of 5, but the only one available from the library, for some reason). For me, that still counts as a +1 to my TBR until I finish or return it, so it's kind of the same as buying a book except that the balancing half of the deal has a time limit.
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