Book
Basic Information
A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side.
In strict terms a book may also be recorded on one or more scrolls, a linked collection of writing tablets or something similar.
A collection of books is termed a library - this can refer both to the books themselves and to the room or building in which they are found, although a library which contains only records may also be called an archive.
Famous Real Books
Famous Fictional Books
See Also
- Anthropodermic bibliopegy
- Big Book Of War
- Book And Switch
- Bookcase Passage
- Book code
- Chirograph
- Cookbook
- Hagiography
- Hortus Siccus
- It's For A Book
- Library
- Library of Lost Books
- Palimpsest
- Read The Freaking Manual
- Religious Text
- Scribe
- Spell Book
- Tome of Eldritch Lore
Sources
Game and Story Use
- Books serve as a useful repository of plot-relevant information.
- Most famously is the Tome of Eldritch Lore which contains the banishing spell for the Cosmic Horror - but which might drive the reader insane in the process.
- As the "Unusual Books" link demonstrates, books can be far more than a mere collection of sheets of paper. Come up with an unusual book description, and make your players curious.
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