I started studying back in the mid 80s as a teenager. Even when you went to the library to look up stuff to verify information when it came to dates and ancient history, books that contained the information you were looking for were few and far in between in libraries in small southern towns. Many of the publications the WTS used were reference books that were out of print or hard to get hold of. There were no "apostate books" that I knew of in the libraries in the town I lived in. Probably one reason it wasn't in the public library downtown where I lived was because a pioneer sister, wife of a PO of one of the congs worked in the library and I work in the college library and didn't see any XJW books.
LRG