[
  {
    "id": "DEBUG_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "name": { "str": "A Technomancer's Guide to Debugging C:DDA", "str_pl": "copies of A Technomancer's Guide to Debugging C:DDA" },
    "description": "static std::string description( spell sp ) const;",
    "weight": "1 g",
    "volume": "1 ml",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "magenta",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "debug_hp",
        "debug_stamina",
        "debug_teleport_to",
        "example_template",
        "debug_bionic",
        "pain_split",
        "fireball",
        "gravity_well",
        "cone_cold",
        "megablast",
        "test_area_push",
        "test_area_pull_field",
        "test_area_pull_all"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "wizard_beginner",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "A Beginner's Guide to Magic", "str_pl": "copies of A Beginner's Guide to Magic" },
    "//": "2 Magus, 3 classless spell",
    "description": "You would describe this as more like a pamphlet than a spellbook, but it seems to have at least a few interesting spells you can use.",
    "weight": "585 g",
    "volume": "250 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_red",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "magic_missile", "phase_door", "create_atomic_light", "sound_bomb", "classless_watch_spell" ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "novice_stormshaper_book",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "An Introduction to Applied Meteorology", "str_pl": "copies of An Introduction to Applied Meteorology" },
    "//": "2 stormshaper",
    "description": "A professional-looking book on stormshaping, structured after many college textbooks.  It has less to apply than one might expect from its size.",
    "weight": "900 g",
    "volume": "1200 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "shocking_lash", "windrun" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "wizard_utility",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Wizarding Guide to Backpacking", "str_pl": "copies of Wizarding Guide to Backpacking" },
    "//": "2 Magus, 1 Biomancer, 1 Kelvinist, 1 Druid, 1 classless spell",
    "description": "This appears to be the spell version of a guide for what things to take with you when backpacking.  It's a little bulky, but will certainly prove useful.",
    "weight": "1 kg",
    "volume": "1250 ml",
    "price": "350 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "red",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "phase_door",
        "create_lighter",
        "create_electric_lighter",
        "pain_split",
        "protection_aura",
        "magus_force_jar",
        "druid_healing_herb",
        "air_bubble"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "pyro",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Pyromancy for Heretics", "str_pl": "copies of Pyromancy for Heretics" },
    "//": "4 Kelvinist spells",
    "description": "This charred husk of a book still contains many ways to light things aflame.",
    "weight": "450 g",
    "volume": "1 L",
    "price": "19 USD 4 cent",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_red",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "point_flare", "fireball", "burning_hands", "create_lighter", "kelvinist_summon_flamesword" ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "wizard_advanced",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "//": "1 Magus, 1 biomancer, 2 kelvinist, 1 classless spells",
    "name": { "str": "A Treatise on Magical Elements", "str_pl": "copies of A Treatise on Magical Elements" },
    "description": "This details complex diagrams, rituals, and choreography that describes various spells.",
    "weight": "920 g",
    "volume": "750 ml",
    "price": "300 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_red",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "point_flare", "ice_spike", "gravity_well", "pain_split", "classless_dispel_magic" ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "priest_beginner",
    "//2": "id for legacy reasons",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Limits of Magical Recovery", "str_pl": "copies of The Limits of Magical Recovery" },
    "//": "1 technomancer, 2 biomancer, 1 druid spells",
    "description": "A study of the progress of using magic to cure ailments and heal wounds throughout the ages, from the earliest simple rituals to set bones all the way through modern thaumaturgical research into cancer treatments and curing Orcus's disease.  Some of the descriptions are detailed enough to be used as spell formulae.",
    "weight": "900 g",
    "volume": "750 ml",
    "price": "150 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_green",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "light_healing", "biomancer_cure_disease_minor", "bless", "druid_healing_herb" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "priest_advanced",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": {
      "str": "The Paladin's Guide to Modern Spellcasting",
      "str_pl": "copies of The Paladin's Guide to Modern Spellcasting"
    },
    "//": "2 technomancer, 1 animist spells",
    "description": "Despite the title, this seems to be written in Middle English.  A little obtuse, but you can make out most of the words well enough.",
    "weight": "830 g",
    "volume": "750 ml",
    "price": "300 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "green",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "smite", "holy_blade", "spirit_armor" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "winter_grasp",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Winter's Eternal Grasp", "str_pl": "copies of Winter's Eternal Grasp" },
    "//": "5 Kelvinist spells",
    "description": "This slim book almost seems to be made from ice, it's cold to the touch.",
    "weight": "450 g",
    "volume": "1 L",
    "price": "19 USD 4 cent",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_blue",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "cone_cold", "ice_spike", "hoary_blast", "chilling_touch", "frost_spray" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "tome_of_storms",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "//": "7 Stormshaper spells",
    "name": { "str": "The Tome of The Oncoming Storm", "str_pl": "copies of The Tome of The Oncoming Storm" },
    "description": "A large book embossed with crossed lightning bolts and storm clouds, it tingles to the touch.",
    "weight": "430 g",
    "volume": "750 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "electric_arts",
        "jolt",
        "windstrike",
        "windrun",
        "storm_hammer",
        "stormfist",
        "lightning_bolt",
        "lightning_blast",
        "shocking_dash",
        "toxtricity"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "bioelectricity",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "//": "6 Stormshaper spells",
    "name": { "str": "Bioelectricity, An Arcane Approach", "str_pl": "copies of Bioelectricity, An Arcane Approach" },
    "description": "A small, but thick book, that covers the most recent developments in the field, including real examples.",
    "weight": "537 g",
    "volume": "930 ml",
    "price": "90 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "electric_arts", "storm_superconductor", "shocking_dash", "toxtricity", "electric_eye", "electric_waves" ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "tome_of_wind",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "//": "5 Stormshaper wind spells",
    "name": { "str": "Blow You Away", "str_pl": "copies of Blow You Away" },
    "description": "A large, illustrated book, that describes the unpopular side of stormshaping - wind control.  Despite being less \"cool\", it has more control, and can be as devastating as lightning.",
    "weight": "473 g",
    "volume": "825 ml",
    "price": "70 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "windstrike",
        "windrun",
        "stormshaper_wall_of_fog",
        "explosive_decompression",
        "air_bubble",
        "stormshaper_heart_of_hurricane"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "tome_electric",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "//": "5 Stormshaper electric spells",
    "name": { "str": "How Electromancy Changed the Vietnam War", "str_pl": "copies of How Electromancy Changed the Vietnam War" },
    "description": "A scholarly work, that discusses the electromancy boom in the 60's and how the mass military draft of fresh, inexperienced mages changed the war, with examples of tactics and spells used by year.  Summary says \"it changed nothing\".",
    "weight": "378 g",
    "volume": "660 ml",
    "price": "117 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "storm_superconductor",
        "summon_teravolt",
        "storm_hammer",
        "stormfist",
        "electric_waves",
        "electric_eye",
        "toxtricity",
        "shocking_dash"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "generic_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Nondescript Spellbook", "str_pl": "copies of Nondescript Spellbook" },
    "//": "1 technomancer, 1 earthshaper, 1 classless spell",
    "description": "A small book, containing spells created by a novice magician.",
    "weight": "355 g",
    "volume": "500 ml",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "magenta",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "seismic_stomp", "create_atomic_lamp", "ethereal_grasp" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "light_manipulation_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Of Light and Falsehoods", "str_pl": "copies of Of Light and Falsehoods" },
    "//": "3 technomancer, 4 classless spell",
    "description": "A small white book, it subtly amplifies the ambient light around it.",
    "weight": "430 g",
    "volume": "750 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "dark_sight",
        "blinding_flash",
        "obfuscated_body",
        "create_atomic_light",
        "mirror_image",
        "invisibility",
        "holographic_transposition",
        "shadow_field"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "biomancer_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Tome of Flesh", "str_pl": "copies of The Tome of Flesh" },
    "//": "5 Biomancer spells",
    "description": "A small tome, seemingly covered in tanned human skin.",
    "weight": "355 g",
    "volume": "500 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "red",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "vicious_tentacle", "bio_grotesque", "bio_acidicspray", "bio_fleshpouch", "bio_bonespear" ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "druid_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Book of Trees", "str_pl": "copies of The Book of Trees" },
    "//": "5 Druid spells",
    "description": "A bark covered book.",
    "weight": "355 g",
    "volume": "500 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "green",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "druid_woodshaft",
        "druid_veggrasp",
        "druid_rootstrike",
        "druid_naturebow1",
        "druid_natures_commune",
        "druid_healing_herb",
        "druid_healing"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "recovery_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Utility of Mana as an Energy Source", "str_pl": "copies of The Utility of Mana as an Energy Source" },
    "description": "This book details spells that use your mana to recover various physiological effects.",
    "//": "1 classless, 1 technomancer, 2 animist, 1 druid, 1 earthshaper spell",
    "weight": "728 g",
    "volume": "3 L",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_blue",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "classless_restore_crystal_mana",
        "recover_mana",
        "recover_bionic_power",
        "recover_pain",
        "recover_sleepiness",
        "recover_stamina",
        "druid_healing",
        "convert"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "farmer_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Farm-Wizard's Almanac", "str_pl": "copies of The Farm-Wizard's Almanac" },
    "//": "2 earthshaper spells, 4 druid spells, 1 stormshaper spell",
    "description": "While no longer popular in the age of nitrogen fertilizer and industrial farm equipment, copies of this tome continued to be published for years for a small audience of back-to-nature, do-it-yourself organic mage-farmers.",
    "weight": "483 g",
    "volume": "825 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "green",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "earthshaper_turning_of_earth",
        "move_earth",
        "druid_growth",
        "druid_natures_commune",
        "druidic_regrowth",
        "purify_seed",
        "electric_eye"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "magus_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Tome of The Battle Mage", "str_pl": "copies of The Tome of The Battle Mage" },
    "//": "4 Magus spells",
    "description": "Your standard wizardy looking spellbook, filled with Magus combat spells.  You sure lucked out!",
    "weight": "434 g",
    "volume": "750 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "magus_mana_beam", "magus_mana_bolt", "magus_mana_blast", "magus_summon_impact_sling" ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "eshaper_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Tome of the Hollow Earth", "str_pl": "copies of The Tome of the Hollow Earth" },
    "//": "5 earthshaper spells",
    "description": "This large dusty spellbook seems perpetually, well, dusty.  It contains a considerable amount of earthly power.",
    "weight": "483 g",
    "volume": "825 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "brown",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "eshaper_rockbolt", "eshaper_shardspray", "eshaper_piercing_bolt", "eshaper_shardstorm", "eshaper_impalement" ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "eshaper_spellbook_melee",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Memoirs of the Champion of Earth", "str_pl": "copies of Memoirs of the Champion of Earth" },
    "//": "6 earthshaper spells",
    "description": "A book written by someone obviously very self-absorbed who describes himself as \"Chosen of Gaia, the Only Champion of Terra\".  Despite his arrogance, his mastery in combining different earthshaper's abilities as described in the book make him an accomplished sorcerer worth learning from.",
    "weight": "247 g",
    "volume": "398 ml",
    "price": "90 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "brown",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "pertifying_touch",
        "earthshaper_stoneskin",
        "reactive_armor",
        "eshaper_melee_damage",
        "eshaper_crystal_wrap",
        "earthshaper_sleep_in_earth"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "eshaper_spellbook_tool",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "One Spell is All You Need!", "str_pl": "copies of One Spell is All You Need!" },
    "//": "1 earthshaper spell. yes, the whole book is only for one, that's the idea",
    "description": "This advertising booklet promotes one spell that allows you to create a different tool for different purposes.  Surprisingly, it works as the book says - you can change the shape of your tool, depending on your needs.",
    "weight": "83 g",
    "volume": "132 ml",
    "price": "10 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "brown",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "eshaper_spawn_tools" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "magus_spellbook_move",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Tome of Magical Movement", "str_pl": "copies of The Tome of Magical Movement" },
    "//": "6 Magus spells",
    "description": "This small lightweight book seems to almost not entirely exist, let's say it 97% does.  It contains Magus spells focused on movement.",
    "weight": "231 g",
    "volume": "500 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "phase_door",
        "magus_escape",
        "magus_haste",
        "magus_slow",
        "magus_slowfall",
        "magus_spiderclimb",
        "magus_ranged_increase"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "summon_scroll_smudged",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Smudged Scroll" },
    "//": "Druid spell",
    "description": "This looks like someone was designing a new spell, but spilled a mug of coffee on it and crumpled it up in anger.  You can tell that it will definitely cast something, but you can't be sure that it will work very well.",
    "weight": "129 g",
    "volume": "100 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "summon_bear" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "summon_undead_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Necromantic Minions for Dummies", "str_pl": "copies of Necromantic Minions for Dummies" },
    "//": "3 Animist spells",
    "description": "This book details various ways of summoning an undead minion to fight for you.  They all appear to disappear after a short time, crumbling to dust.",
    "weight": "788 g",
    "volume": "2250 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "summon_undead", "summon_undead_swarm", "convert", "dominate", "life_detonation" ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "techno_fundamentals",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Fundamentals of Technomancy", "str_pl": "copies of Fundamentals of Technomancy" },
    "//": "4 Technomancer spells",
    "description": "This thick manual instructs the spellcaster on manipulating and empowering various forms of matter and energy.",
    "weight": "258 g",
    "volume": "750 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "synaptic_stimulation", "animated_blade", "mirror_image", "technomancer_knifeshot" ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "techno_idiots",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Complete Idiot's Guide to Technomancy", "str_pl": "copies of Complete Idiot's Guide to Technomancy" },
    "description": "This colorful guide, full of diagrams and cartoons, teaches a couple of very basic Technomancy spells for the not-so-bright pupils.",
    "//": "2 Technomancer spells",
    "weight": "211 g",
    "volume": "500 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "taze", "quantum_tunnel_lesser" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "techno_em",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": {
      "str": "Technomancy and the Electromagnetic Spectrum",
      "str_pl": "copies of Technomancy and the Electromagnetic Spectrum"
    },
    "//": "5 Technomancer spells",
    "description": "This lab reference material book is thick and overflowing with information on combining magic with EM radiation.",
    "weight": "284 g",
    "volume": "1 L",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "taze", "laze", "technomancer_knifeshot", "technomancer_conjure_ups", "technomancer_recharge_vehicle" ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "techno_electrical_work",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Mage-Engineer's Practical Guide", "str_pl": "copies of The Mage-Engineer's Practical Guide" },
    "//": "4 Technomancer spells, 2 Stormshaper spells",
    "description": "This is a heavy, university thaumaturgical-program-level guidebook.  It discusses the various practical applications of magic in repairwork and engineering, with a focus on immediately-usable techniques instead of airy theoretical approaches.",
    "weight": "1200 g",
    "volume": "2500 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "electric_eye",
        "electric_arts",
        "technomancer_conjure_radio",
        "technomancer_welder",
        "technomancer_conjure_ups",
        "technomancer_recharge_vehicle"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "animist_spirits",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "//": "2 animist and 1 classless spells",
    "name": { "str": "Liminal Pathways", "str_pl": "copies of Liminal Pathways" },
    "description": "A famous animist grimoire from early modernity.  Its cryptic passages describe and map connections between the spiritual world and ours.",
    "weight": "920 g",
    "volume": "750 ml",
    "price": "300 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_red",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "wrathful_spirits", "spirit_walk", "ethereal_grasp" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "animist_shadows",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Runic Tablet shard" },
    "//": "2 animist spells",
    "description": "A small tablet of blackened stone, apparently cut from a much larger slab.  Golden runes glow over its surface, and slowly shift into intelligible sentences when you stare at them.",
    "weight": "4000 g",
    "volume": "2500 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "stone" ],
    "looks_like": "material_shrd_limestone",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "soulrend", "wrathful_spirits" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "translocate_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Geospatial Systems: The Lie Of Linearity", "str_pl": "copies of Geospatial Systems: The Lie Of Linearity" },
    "//": "1 classless spell",
    "description": "This book outlines in great detail how time and space are wibbly-wobbly and non-Euclidean.  It also appears to have a dozen different coordinate systems that it uses nearly interchangeably, which makes it hard to follow.  There's lots of jargon, but with intense study you can probably learn a thing or two about portals.",
    "weight": "1200 g",
    "volume": "2500 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_blue",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "translocate_self" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "forbidden_tome",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "name": { "str": "Forbidden Tome" },
    "//": "1 Magus spell, 1 Druid spell, 2 Animist spells",
    "description": "A very, very old and heavy tome of various spells lost to the ages, either for good reason, or simply through the passage of time.  There are very few copies in existence, usually owned by those of great power, and yet all of them seem to have the last dozen pages or so torn out, in haste.",
    "weight": "2400 g",
    "volume": "5000 ml",
    "price": "75 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "brown",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "focused_bolt", "rupture", "disruption_bolt", "cause_rot", "devour" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "stat_up_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Transcendence of the Human Condition", "str_pl": "copies of Transcendence of the Human Condition" },
    "//": "4 Magus spells",
    "description": "The Human is the only creature that seeks to improve himself.  This study examines different spells that can heighten various senses temporarily, in hopes to discover a more permanent solution.",
    "weight": "1300 g",
    "volume": "2500 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "yellow",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "cats_grace", "ogres_strength", "foxs_cunning", "eagles_sight" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "magic_movement_book",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "name": { "str": "Wherever You've Gone, There You Can Be", "str_pl": "copies of Wherever You've Gone, There You Can Be" },
    "//": "3 Magus spells, 1 Technomancer spell",
    "description": "A very sarcastically-written guide to using magic to get into and out of places you absolutely are not supposed to be.",
    "weight": "1200 g",
    "volume": "2500 ml",
    "price": "75 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "brown",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "magus_teleport_mark", "magus_word_of_recall", "magus_spiderclimb", "quantum_tunnel_lesser" ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "prepper_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": {
      "str": "It's the End of the World, But You'll Feel Fine",
      "str_pl": "copies of It's the End of the World, But You'll Feel Fine"
    },
    "//": "3 Druid spells, 1 Earthshaper spell, 1 Biomancer spell, 2 Kelvinist spells",
    "description": "This thick paperback book is a collection of the proper magical preparations to survive various disasters.  Unfortunately, the zombie apocalypse section doesn't account for everything that's gone wrong in the Cataclysm, but there's still a lot of useful knowledge here.",
    "weight": "473 g",
    "volume": "825 ml",
    "price": "35 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "yellow",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "druid_harvest_hunter",
        "druid_naturebow1",
        "biomancer_carrion_feast",
        "purify_seed",
        "earthshaper_turning_of_earth",
        "create_lighter",
        "kelvinist_anti_cold"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "id": "plant_spellbook",
    "name": { "ctxt": "spellbook", "str": "The Elven Path", "str_pl": "copies of The Elven Path" },
    "//": "7 Druid spells",
    "description": "Written by the elven archdruid Tylindel Melithilarahd over 500 years ago, this weighty tome was considered *the* most important book of the Harmonist druidic movement up until just before the Cataclysm.  Archdruid Melithilarahd's death in 2016 ended his overt patronage of his own works, allowing other writers to attempt to make their mark, especially younger elves who did not have such a strident anti-modern attitude.  In addition to all the philosophical essays about the importance of living in harmony with nature and allowing plants to grow where they will are several plant-based druidic spells.",
    "price": "150 USD",
    "material": [ "paper", "cardboard" ],
    "symbol": "?",
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "color": "green",
    "weight": "2041 g",
    "volume": "1500 ml",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "druid_whisper_leaves",
        "druid_summon_tanglevine",
        "druid_summon_brambles",
        "druid_renew_forest_spell",
        "druid_wood_living_tree_spell",
        "druid_rootstrike",
        "druidic_regrowth"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "book_lazy_magic",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Lazy Mage's How-to Guide", "str_pl": "copies of The Lazy Mage's How-to Guide" },
    "//": "1 Magus spell, 1 Earthshaper spell, 1 Stormshaper spell, 1 Technomancer spell, 1 Classless spell",
    "description": "A thin book full of spells designed to help the practitioner short-cut having to actually do any work.  Considering the effort involved in studying magic, you're not sure any actual time is being saved.",
    "weight": "355 g",
    "volume": "500 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "blue",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "magus_far_hand_pull",
        "classless_watch_spell",
        "create_electric_lighter",
        "earthshaper_turning_of_earth",
        "summon_floating_disk"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "camping_time_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Arcano-hiking for Fun", "str_pl": "copies of Arcano-hiking for Fun" },
    "//": "1 classless, 1 druid spell",
    "description": "A thin book about the usefulness of magic in hiking, such as keeping clean, keeping the weather good, staying dry, and otherwise avoiding all the problems of the mundane outdoors.",
    "weight": "900 g",
    "volume": "1200 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "green",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "classless_clean_clothing_and_self", "druid_traverse_the_wilds" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "magic_history_tech_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": {
      "str": "The Effects of Technological Progress on Magic",
      "str_pl": "copies of The Effects of Technological Progress on Magic"
    },
    "description": "A thick book about the history of magic's interactions with technology.  It delves deeply into why technological solutions have mostly replaced magic in daily life even though mages can have immense personal power: the incompatibility of Control and Harmony schools, the technological ease-of-use from the end-user perspective, and even the way some nations' legal systems have worked to discourage magic use so as to prevent individuals from attaining too much power.",
    "//": "1 technomancer, 2 classless spells",
    "weight": "1728 g",
    "volume": "3 L",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_blue",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "classless_watch_spell", "create_atomic_light", "technomancer_conjure_radio" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "magic_healing_home_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Home Mage's Healthcare Manual", "str_pl": "copies of The Home Mage's Healthcare Manual" },
    "//": "2 Biomancer, 2 Druid spell",
    "description": "A reference book for the practical use of magic in healing the sort of wounds that are likely to occur at home: burns from cooking, scraped knees, cuts from knives, bruises, colds and the flu, and so on.",
    "weight": "483 g",
    "volume": "825 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "magenta",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "light_healing", "biomancer_cure_disease_minor", "druid_disinfectant", "druid_bandage_heal" ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "animist_summon_wisps_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": {
      "str": "Travels Among the Ljósálfar: Their Customs, Food, Lifestyle, Celebrations, and Ceremonies",
      "str_pl": "copies of Travels Among the Ljósálfar: Their Customs, Food, Lifestyle, Celebrations, and Ceremonies"
    },
    "//": "1 Animist spell",
    "description": "An old 19th-century travelogue, detailing the author's travels among the elven tribes of northern Greenland.  The section about the midwinter festival and the northern lights is particularly detailed.",
    "weight": "1200 g",
    "volume": "2500 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "brown",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "summon_wisps" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "stormshaper_electric_immune_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Storm Chasing In Complete Safety", "str_pl": "copies of Storm Chasing In Complete Safety" },
    "//": "1 stormshaper spell",
    "description": "A description of weather patterns, geological formations in particularly storm-prone areas, essays from well-known storm chasers, proper equipment and safety, how to keep dry, and a way to use magic to completely avoid any possible danger from the storm itself.  The book does explicitly warn that if a tree falls on you, you're on your own, though, so the title seems to be more than half marketing.",
    "weight": "585 g",
    "volume": "500 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_green",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "electric_arts" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "avoid_all_temperatures_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": {
      "str": "Fashion Over Function: A Thaumaturgical Guide to Wearing Whatever, Whenever",
      "str_pl": "copies of Fashion Over Function: A Thaumaturgical Guide to Wearing Whatever, Whenever"
    },
    "//": "2 kelvinist spells",
    "description": "A thin guide to using magic to avoid extremes of both hot and cold, allowing you to design your wardrobe around always looking good rather than having to account for summer's heat or winter's chill.",
    "weight": "430 g",
    "volume": "750 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "red",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "kelvinist_anti_cold", "kelvinist_anti_heat" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "summon_cats_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "A Cat Cafe at Home!", "str_pl": "copies of A Cat Cafe at Home!" },
    "//": "1 Druid spell",
    "description": "A very thin book, filled with glossy photos, about how to use druidic magic to call up cats whenever you are feeling lonely, if you can't afford one, or if you live in a place that doesn't normally allow pets.  The people in the photos watching half-a-dozen cats play sure look happy.",
    "weight": "355 g",
    "volume": "500 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "white",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "summon_cats" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "freshen_up_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Save Water and Time, with Magic!", "str_pl": "copies of Save Water and Time, with Magic!" },
    "//": "1 classless spell",
    "description": "This very thin booklet about the ecological benefits of using magic instead of a mundane morning cleaning routine.  At the bottom of the back cover is an abstract logo of two people holding both hands with a tree growing through the resulting circle, and the words \"Gaia's Children\" beneath it.",
    "weight": "83 g",
    "volume": "132 ml",
    "price": "10 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_blue",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "classless_clean_clothing_and_self" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "post_apocalypse_guide_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Mystic Survival in the End Times", "str_pl": "copies of Mystic Survival in the End Times" },
    "//": "1 Biomancer, 1 Druid, 1 Kelvinist, and 1 classless spell.",
    "description": "A somewhat alarmist book about the ways to survive after the collapse of civilization, using simple magic to deal with common problems.  Sadly, there are no anti-zombie combat spells within.",
    "weight": "434 g",
    "volume": "750 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "classless_clean_clothing_and_self", "biomancer_carrion_feast", "purify_seed", "create_lighter" ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "earthshaper_landscaping_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Landscaping with Earthshaping", "str_pl": "copies of Landscaping with Earthshaping" },
    "description": "A guide to using earthshaping magic to shortcut the backbreaking work of digging and hauling needed to redo one's yard.",
    "//": "2 Earthshaper spells",
    "weight": "211 g",
    "volume": "500 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "brown",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "move_earth", "earthshaper_turning_of_earth" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "crystallize_mana_economy_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Limitations of the Mana Economy", "str_pl": "copies of The Limitations of the Mana Economy" },
    "//": "2 Classless spells",
    "description": "A study of the inherent non-scalability of magical solutions to problems, touching on the difficulty of producing crystallized mana in the quantities needed for industrial use, the long time period necessary for magical materials like orichalcum, mithril, or crimsonite to reach reliability, the way that earthshaping and druidism specifically require wilderness for some of their spells, and the way that an average mage exhausts their mana pool within fifteen minutes of working on any major project without extensive study and training.",
    "weight": "1728 g",
    "volume": "3 L",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "white",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "classless_restore_crystal_mana", "crystallize_mana" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "special_effects_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Make Your Own Special Effects", "str_pl": "copies of Make Your Own Special Effects" },
    "//": "1 Animist spell, 1 Magus spell, 1 Stormshaper spell, 1 Classless spell",
    "description": "A guide to using magic to create practical special effects, whether for a birthday celebration, house party, or simply for your own amusement.",
    "weight": "483 g",
    "volume": "825 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "yellow",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "shadow_field", "summon_wisps", "sound_bomb", "stormshaper_cloak_of_fog" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "magical_gardening_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Gardening the Druidic Way", "str_pl": "copies of Gardening the Druidic Way" },
    "//": "1 Druid, 1 Earthshaper spell",
    "description": "A reference tome for using magic to garden in a \"organic, traditional, earth-centered way\", as the back cover states.",
    "weight": "258 g",
    "volume": "750 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "green",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "druid_growth", "earthshaper_turning_of_earth" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "bypass_portals_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Let No Wall Stand in Your Way!", "str_pl": "copies of Let No Wall Stand in Your Way!" },
    "//": "2 technomancer spells",
    "description": "This book claims to be an aid to people who always forget their keys or need to get into their car quickly, but the selection of spells seems pretty suspicious to you.",
    "weight": "585 g",
    "volume": "550 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "knock", "quantum_tunnel_lesser" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "sense_outsiders_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "A Study of Nethereum Incursions", "str_pl": "copies of A Study of Nethereum Incursions" },
    "//": "1 Animist spell",
    "description": "An academic book about the history of known Nethereum incursions, including the 1908 Tunguska incident, the disappearance of the army of Cambyses, various dancing plagues, the earthquake that destroyed the kingdom of Mgarzhbag, the Week Without Sun in the 7th century, and more, along with a variety of speculation about possible other historical and pre-historical incursions.",
    "weight": "355 g",
    "volume": "500 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "dark_gray",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "animist_sense_outsiders" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "windrunning_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": {
      "str": "Born of a Gale: A Taxonomy of Air and Weather Spirits",
      "str_pl": "copies of Born of a Gale: A Taxonomy of Air and Weather Spirits"
    },
    "//": "1 Stormshaper spell",
    "description": "A formal study of the various sylphs, anemoi, shedim, hytersprites, hyades, ame-onna, and other spirits associated with air, wind, or weather.",
    "weight": "1588 g",
    "volume": "2250 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_blue",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "windrun" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "stone_powers_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "//": "2 Earthshaper spells",
    "name": {
      "//~": "Akyâluaban and Ghâzkhud are words from a fictional language and should not be translated.",
      "str": "Akyâluaban: the Book of the Living Stone",
      "str_pl": "copies of Akyâluaban: the Book of the Living Stone"
    },
    "description": "A copy of a religious text from the Ghâzkhud dwarven religion.  Amidst the prayers and songs and meditations on the ancestors and the earth and the stones are some spells, though pious traditional ghâzkhudians would react with shock if you called them that.",
    "weight": "537 g",
    "volume": "930 ml",
    "price": "90 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_gray",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "earthshaper_boulder", "earthshaper_harden_earth" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "staying_clean_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Magical Method of Tidying Up", "str_pl": "copies of The Magical Method of Tidying Up" },
    "//": "2 classless, 1 magus spell",
    "description": "This obvious cash-in book does have some actual practical spells amongst all the philosophical-sounding essays about the importance of cleanliness.",
    "weight": "585 g",
    "volume": "550 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "light_green",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "protection_aura", "classless_clean_clothing_and_self", "magus_far_hand_pull" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "druid_healing_power_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "//": "1 Druid spell + potion fruit recipes",
    "name": { "str": "The Healing Power of Nature", "str_pl": "copies of The Healing Power of Nature" },
    "description": "A description of the various ways to use natural herbs and plants to fuel magical healing.  There is a lot of useful knowledge of here if you sift through the book and filter out the various chapters about the dangers of allopathic medicine and modern post-industrial lifestyles.",
    "weight": "537 g",
    "volume": "930 ml",
    "price": "90 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "green",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "druid_healing_herb" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "hologram_and_teleport_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": {
      "str": "Now You See We: Technomantic Transit In Action",
      "str_pl": "copies of Now You See We: Technomantic Transit In Action"
    },
    "//": "2 Technomancer spells",
    "description": "A book about how technomancy, usually thought of as being based around electricity and human enhancement, somehow also encompasses quick moment but only when holograms are involved.  At least half the book is descriptions of experiments performed by research thaumaturges to find the exact boundaries of technomancy when movement is involved.",
    "weight": "355 g",
    "volume": "500 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "yellow",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "mirror_image", "holographic_transposition" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "messed_up_spells_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Magical Mishaps: When Spells Go Wrong", "str_pl": "copies of Magical Mishaps: When Spells Go Wrong" },
    "//": "2 druid spells, 1 stormshaper spell, 1 animist spell, all spells the pun ones",
    "description": "A series of stories of the various ways magic can go wrong if the wrong ingredients, words, or gestures are used.  A lot of the stories are merely funny, like the magus who in trying to alter the Sorcerer's Hand spell caused music to follow her everywhere she went, but there's the occasional real tragedy mixed in as a cautionary tale.",
    "weight": "483 g",
    "volume": "825 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "green",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "summon_bear", "druid_tornskin", "stormshaper_cloak_of_frog", "animist_magic_fissile" ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "biomancy_fasting_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Intermittent Fasting Using Biomancy", "str_pl": "copies of Intermittent Fasting Using Biomancy" },
    "//": "1 Biomancy spell",
    "description": "A guide to using biomancy to perform extreme intermittent fasting, eating an enormous amount of food only once every 2-5 days, depending on the mage's skill.  The book is filled with both glossy photos of extremely fit, beautiful people and warnings to make sure that your stomach isn't full when the spell wears off.",
    "weight": "284 g",
    "volume": "550 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "pink",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "biomancer_eat_tons_of_food" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "anti_magic_dispel_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "A Year of Living Without Magic", "str_pl": "copies of A Year of Living Without Magic" },
    "//": "1 Classless spell",
    "description": "A guide to living without any magic at all, including ways to perform tasks that were traditionally performed with magic, such as starting fires, tending minor wounds, cooking and preserving food, doing laundry, and so on.  Somewhat hypocritically, it does include a dispelling spell in the back of the book.",
    "weight": "258 g",
    "volume": "750 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "dark_gray",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "classless_dispel_magic" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "easy_sleeping_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "Beyond Sleeping Easy with Sorcery", "str_pl": "copies of Beyond Sleeping Easy with Sorcery" },
    "//": "1 Classless spell",
    "description": "This self-help book is themed around the Peaceful Rest spell, famed before the Cataclysm as an easy way to avoid tossing and turning.  Laudably, the book seems to be mostly about eventually weaning the reader off the need to cast a spell to be able to fall asleep on time.",
    "weight": "483 g",
    "volume": "825 ml",
    "price": "50 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "white",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "classless_easy_sleep_spell" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "basic_pyromancy",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "//": "6 Kelvinist spells",
    "name": { "str": "Practical Pyromancy, Seventh Edition", "str_pl": "copies of Practical Pyromancy, Seventh Edition" },
    "description": "The 2020 edition of the classic tome of fire magic, not containing any restricted battle magic but popular all the same.",
    "weight": "537 g",
    "volume": "930 ml",
    "price": "90 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "red",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [
        "kelvinist_firebolt",
        "kelvinist_extinguish_fire_spell",
        "create_lighter",
        "kelvinist_heat_food",
        "kelvinist_anti_cold",
        "burning_hands"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "all_first_circle_upgrades_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Rites of the First Circle", "str_pl": "copies of The Rites of the First Circle" },
    "//": "All 3 first circle mana trait upgrade spells",
    "description": "A weighty tome containing all three of the Rites of the First Circle, the rituals used by dedicated mages to increase their ability to channel and recover mana.",
    "weight": "1588 g",
    "volume": "2250 ml",
    "price": "500 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "white",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "mana_upgrade_efficiency_01", "mana_upgrade_regeneration_01", "mana_upgrade_sensitivity_01" ]
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "first_circle_mana_amount_upgrade_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Rite of the First Circle: Mana Pool", "str_pl": "copies of The Rite of the First Circle: Mana Pool" },
    "description": "A lengthy list of the rituals and components necessary to slightly increase the efficiency by which the mage's body processes mana.",
    "weight": "483 g",
    "volume": "825 ml",
    "price": "500 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "white",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "mana_upgrade_efficiency_01" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "second_circle_mana_amount_upgrade_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Rite of the Second Circle: Mana Pool", "str_pl": "copies of The Rite of the Second Circle: Mana Pool" },
    "description": "A lengthy list of the rituals and components necessary to increase the efficiency by which the mage's body processes mana.",
    "weight": "900 g",
    "volume": "1200 ml",
    "price": "500 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "white",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "mana_upgrade_efficiency_02" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "first_circle_mana_regen_upgrade_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Rite of the First Circle: Mana Flow", "str_pl": "copies of The Rite of the First Circle: Mana Flow" },
    "description": "A lengthy list of the rituals and components necessary to slightly increase the rate by which the mage's body regains mana.",
    "weight": "483 g",
    "volume": "825 ml",
    "price": "500 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "red",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "mana_upgrade_regeneration_01" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "second_circle_mana_regen_upgrade_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Rite of the Second Circle: Mana Flow", "str_pl": "copies of The Rite of the Second Circle: Mana Flow" },
    "description": "A lengthy list of the rituals and components necessary to increase the rate by which the mage's body regains mana.",
    "weight": "900 g",
    "volume": "1200 ml",
    "price": "500 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "red",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "mana_upgrade_regeneration_02" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "first_circle_mana_mult_upgrade_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Rite of the First Circle: Mana Sense", "str_pl": "copies of The Rite of the First Circle: Mana Sense" },
    "description": "A lengthy list of the rituals and components necessary to slightly increase the sensitivity that the mage's body has to  mana.",
    "weight": "483 g",
    "volume": "825 ml",
    "price": "500 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "red",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "mana_upgrade_sensitivity_01" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "second_circle_mana_mult_upgrade_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": { "str": "The Rite of the Second Circle: Mana Sense", "str_pl": "copies of The Rite of the Second Circle: Mana Sense" },
    "description": "A lengthy list of the rituals and components necessary to increase the sensitivity that the mage's body has to mana.",
    "weight": "900 g",
    "volume": "1200 ml",
    "price": "500 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "red",
    "use_action": { "type": "learn_spell", "spells": [ "mana_upgrade_sensitivity_02" ] }
  },
  {
    "id": "pirate_spellbook",
    "type": "ITEM",
    "subtypes": [ "BOOK" ],
    "category": "manuals",
    "name": {
      "str": "Sail the High Seas with Sorcery on Your Side",
      "str_pl": "copies of Sail the High Seas with Sorcery on Your Side"
    },
    "//": "3 Stormshaper spells, 1 Technomancer spell",
    "description": "This romanticized book of dubious historical accuracy details how pirates used magic to their advantage while sailing.  From better telescopes to banks of fog to hide their approach, it seems that according to this author at least, piracy was a true terror to behold.",
    "weight": "437 g",
    "volume": "825 ml",
    "price": "70 USD",
    "material": [ "paper" ],
    "looks_like": "cookbook",
    "symbol": "?",
    "color": "red",
    "use_action": {
      "type": "learn_spell",
      "spells": [ "stormshaper_cloak_of_fog", "storm_shipwrecker", "air_bubble", "technomancer_far_sight" ]
    }
  }
]
