ENCHANTED BOOK

Enchanted Book is the one entry on this whole site sold four separate times by the same worker. A Librarian offers it at novice, apprentice, journeyman and expert, and every one of those four pulls draws from the same shared pool of 40 enchantments rather than four different lists. Climbing his ladder buys another roll of the dice, not a better guarantee.

Buying skips the enchanting table outright. No lapis, no experience levels spent, no re-enchanting a book that came out wrong. The price of 5 to 64 emeralds pays for whatever the Librarian happened to draw, already finished, already at whatever level the roll landed on.

All four rows belong to one Librarian, and none of them undercut the others: 5 to 64 emeralds at novice, the same 5 to 64 again at apprentice, journeyman and expert. Levelling him up does not lower the cost of a book, it only opens another shot at getting one.

Enchanted Book sells for anywhere between 5 and 64 emeralds, from the Librarian at the Novice tier, and . That is a rolled price rather than a fixed one, so the Librarian you happen to find matters more than the tier does.

The Librarian at its novice tier asks 5 emeralds for an enchanted book, on its cheapest roll. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:

5 lava buckets against 160 sticks for the same 5 emeralds, 32 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Butcher at 3.1 real minutes of shelf, gathering not counted.

Every enchanted book row locks after 12 uses, and a villager can restock twice in a Minecraft day, so one slot is worth 24 books before you have to wait on a second Librarian or a second day.

The earliest it shows up is novice, which any villager reaches the moment he claims a lectern, no trading required first.

The emerald price is rolled per villager, from 5 to 64, a spread of 59 emeralds between the cheapest draw and the most expensive one. Breaking and replacing the lectern rerolls that price along with the enchantment itself, but only until that villager has completed one trade with you. How re-rolling works.

12 books empty one Librarian slot, and it needs 2 real minutes back at the lectern to fill again. A Minecraft day runs 20 real minutes, room enough for two of those refills.

Stay for the whole day and one Librarian hands over 24 books, worth somewhere between 120 and 1536 emeralds depending on how the rolls land. Four tiers means four Librarians can be run at once for four times that, if you have levelled enough of them to open every rung.

Curing pays for itself fast here. 12 books at full price is real emeralds, and the discount a cured Librarian gives applies to every one of his 4 book rows at once, not just the tier you happened to trade first. How curing works.

The same Librarian buys paper for an emerald a bundle, which is a cheap way to fund a shelf full of enchanted books without spending emeralds you gathered elsewhere.

His lectern also carries book, lantern, ink sac, glass, book and quill and clock, so a single lectern covers a lot of ground once it is levelled up.

The point of an enchanted book is that you know what you are getting. An enchanting table offers you three options built from whatever it feels like; a book on an anvil puts exactly one enchantment on exactly the tool you meant.

Two books with the same enchantment at the same level combine into one at the next level up, which is how you get to the top tiers without a lucky table roll. The anvil charges levels for it, and it charges more each time an item has been worked, so the order you do things in decides whether the last step is affordable.

Mending is the one worth hunting, because it cannot be got from a table at all. A librarian is the reliable route to it, and that is the whole reason people reroll them.

4 Librarian tiers on this page can offer an Enchanted Book, and Mending never comes off an enchanting table, so a book is the way to get it. How to Get Mending Books Cheap in Minecraft is the cheap route through the Librarian, and How to Get Mending in Minecraft covers every other source.