Lydiaele noted:
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Some people swear the MoB's will never drop books or spells you can use, but I've personally gotten them, so that claim is false.
That claim is absolutely false!
I have gotten spells and crafting books I needed before. In fact, this one time, (in T-Steppes), I was in a trio with my warden and we dropped a crow who dropped a chest. I leveled up on the kill and the chest contained an adept for the new spell that I got that level! Talk about timing!
In general though, the problem is that the basic odds of catching something you can use are stacked terribly high against you. With 24 classes, the odds are 1 in 24 that it will be a spell for your class and even if it is, what are the odds that you haven't already upgraded it? The same kind of math applies to crafting books. First, the book would have to be for the one thing you happen to craft and then it would have to be a book you hadn't already bought...
I think the odds are unlikely at best.