That all depends on your pastimes. I'm an alchemist and a sorcerer, so working with herbs is a good way to pass the time. The library here isn't bad, but the few books I've found on topics I wanted information for weren't exactly ...

Well, screw it, I couldn't even read the damned things.

[Alternian Troll treatises on their culture and biology were less than accessible reading. Especially since a lot of them had the same quirks the trolls themselves did.]