Talk:Books/@comment-148.0.48.216-20170918221759

It's interesting to note the following:

Maxwell refers to the books as magic in more than one occasion: Birds of the World: "What a wasteful misuse of magic", Applied horticulture: "It's not wise to toy with forces beyond your comprehension". He is also the only character that can use Wickerbottom's books (aside from her, obviously), all characters apparently can read them, but they can't use them.

Wigfrid drops her act when examining Sleepy Time Stories: "Where's the drama? The suspense?", instead of saying something referring to the god or goddess of sleep (whoever that is in norse mythology). But another interesting thing is Wilson's quote about the book: "Strange, it's just 500 pages of telegraph code", meaning that they are reading something different (Wigfrid is reading a story with no drama or suspense, while Wilson is reading telegrap codes). This could be true for all books, but there is no confirmation, only this book seems to have this "feature".

Taking in account Wilson's quotes for Applied Horticulture, Birds of The World, End is Nigh, and Joy of Volcanology; it looks like he doesn't like to read (explicitly expressed his dislike of the book in the first 2, he didn't like the start of the End is Nigh, and he possibly only read the foreword of Joy of Volcanology), which explains why he has no access to tier 2 Science but Wickerbottom does: he doesn't like to study/read, he just likes to experiment, therefore: he knows no theory.

Webber's quote for Joy of Volcanology is rather unsettling: "I'm not a good reader, but he is!". This line seems to indicate that we are playing Webber, the spider trapped by eating a boy, and not Webber, the boy trapped by being eaten by a spider, I mean, the name is a huge giveaway (spider web, Webber), also the fact that he can eat monster meat with no downsides. Either that, or the spider is much more smart than we think.