If I can make a mage (gale or toon) learn a spell that allows to be free from the use of an object I do spent the money to learn the spell.
Not in this case, too much deep is my lack of fortune on dice rolls (by the way, I gave the book to Astarion but still had to make all the rolls, the I obviously failed).
Also artifacts can be sold for good money (and due to my obsession with magic armours and my high need of potions, healing ones and battle ones, not to talk the money for resurrection scrolls or to pay the fee to resurrect a toon, I need a lot of money).
But I do agree that all of the hype is somehow wasted (find the cellar, find the clues, fight the damn phase spiders and due matriarch etc etc.. ...).
