Happy early birthday! And here's hoping you get your wishes. *grin*

You could also get your local library to buy the books for their shelves and then just check the books out. This solves the poverty situation (which I can so relate to after *mumble mumble* years of grad school) and still counts has a sale for me. Just make sure you suggest they BUY the books for their library, rather than just have them interlibrary loan the books to the library.