A dusty rundown shop has a large sign on the outside.
Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be!-Cort's Secondhand Books
So Buy a Damned Book Already!
What?! You think signs pay for themselves?!
Cort opened a second hand book store after several years as an adventurer. A bard, of some reknown he spent many years working in a Taldan University, until his unceremonious firing due to an illicit publication he was publishing disparaging the administration. It is surely just a coincidence that when he left town, he left with hundreds of volumes. And it is also just a coincidence that all of the books still have stamps identifying the campus library that they belong to. Needless to say Yorrick fits right in.