If you're seriously interested about getting your PPL then you might as well buy the books rather than just rent them from a library. Im sure there will be many times in your future flying career that you'll look back at them for some reference or other, or even just to give to your future children who grow up to be fighter pilots.
The only ones I can recommend is the Jeremy Pratt PPL Course series of textbooks, which start with a nice fat blue 'PPL1: flying training' book, and then loosely follow with air law and meteorology and principles of flight and whatnot that you'll need to both pass the theory exams and become a competent private pilot. Its all youll ever need - your flying school will probably stock them but don't buy anything from there, I got mine a lot cheaper off tinternet and delivered free straight to my house
Ive also begged and borrowed some stuff like a kneeboard and a headset, but neither of these things are even remotely necessary when youre pre-solo
edit: nothing about flying is even remotely 'cheap', so spending a hundred antarctican dollars or so on some essential textbooks is nothing - as soon as you've had a lesson or two and haven't vomited or developed vertigo then you'll be hooked and end up spending thousands and thousands
Last edited by gooddaysir; 1st February 2014 at 20:39.