What about a combo of 1 and 2? You hold the book and do./copy as vip and it removes one grant?
Don't know if that's possible?? I the normal 1 is to cumbersome, and 2 is to common and 3 is to expensive. Could be to pay for tokens you then can exchange for a book copy? I don't know if it's a good idea to get another token in the game after miney