Loan- yup- but you have to return it. If you own and shoot the best BA long extractor Mauser based rifle ever made in a US of A All-American factory, before all the "cheap chink crap" became part of our system- then you should own the book. Ditto the "Perfect Repeater", can't see owning and shooting Model 12's without the Riffle and Madis books, for openers. I don't like to loan or rent or "land contract" anything- I either own it outright, or wait until I have the cash money to buy it outright-what made our Country great- when Bernie Madoff was schlepping ties in the garment district and Bernie Baruch was hunting quail with Bob Ruark- AKA- "The Good Old Days"- gone forever!!