Why are you feeling guilty? Its your money, right? Its your choice...so you can spend it how you please...if you buy books instead of say, paying the electrical bill, then its still your choice and you live with the consequences. It doesn't matter if its FPW books or a new car...you want it...you can afford it...you buy it...you face the consquences (if there are any) when they arise. End of story.
I'm going to buy the limited edition Advesary Cycle...why? Because I want it...plain and simple. Its my money...I earned it...and I'll do what I please with it...even though I just recently had a $1200 stereo system installed in my Mustang (the one I spent $3k+ on with upgrades and a new paint job while I was in Georgia) and a $200 iPod...I'll pay $360 for the books because I want them.
'nuff said.
Major K
"He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a Prince." George Graham Vest
"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us." - Maurice Maeterlinck