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My Mage guild ticked over to 10 well before getting all the lore books.
With PC ESO you have the advantage of an addon that will highlight the lore books on your map. With a console version of ESO you are going to have to "pen and paper" hunting down lore books (referring to an online map) you might have missed along the way
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I've managed to collect all of the AD and Cold Harbor Lore Books on one character and the Mages Guild is around level 8.5. It looks like you might be able to get close to 10 by collecting the PvP zone books, otherwise it will be achievable in the first zone of Cadwell's Silver (VR1).
If you collect pretty much every lorebook in each area as you go along you'll be rank 10 in mages skill line before you even reach level 40, just got this on one of my alts at level 36, takes a lot of exploring to find them but easy enough.
You get a boost of xp if you complete a collection. THis will help you much more than random lorebooks. In your lore section in your menu it'll show you how many of that collection you have AND, very importantly, will have grayed out the book(s) you do not have in that section. If you look for the ones close to completing a collection (9/10) and look up online the missing one, you can complete sections quicker and level mages guild up much faster.