(PS. No Boccob's Blessed Books. My DM's usually pretty lax, but finds those to be a reprehensible bypass of the point of spell-tracking in the first place).[/QUOTE]

If it's the cost of scribing spells that your DM doesn't want you to give up, see if he'll allow the Eidetic Spellcaster from Dragon 357. By forfeiting your ability to have a familiar (no loss really) and the Scribe Scroll bonus feat, you gain the ability to prepare all your spells from memory. You still have to pay all the normal costs for learning a new spell using special incenses rather than ink.