Talk:Enchantment Table/@comment-36675487-20180909192656/@comment-28905095-20180912162721

If you want to use anvils you would need enchanted books, whilst the enchantment table can create (most) enchantment from scratch. I think, and feel it works reasonably well, to use the combination of the table and the anvil.

Regarding bookshelves, you also have the option of raiding library in villages or strongholds. So you don't really need to kill several hundreds of cows & co to get the leather, and so on.