A catalogue of imagined knowledge
30 entries, each one traced back to the real page where it was first imagined. Wander the shelves, follow the connections between worlds, and find out which impossible books escaped into ours.
Textbook · The Wizarding World
Libatius Borage — imagined by J. K. Rowling, 2005
A N.E.W.T.-level Potions textbook. The printed text is unremarkable. The previous owner's handwriting in the margins is the entire plot of the sixth novel.
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Imagined first, printed later. These you can actually hold.
A standard Hogwarts textbook classifying the magical creatures of the world, and one of the few fictional books you can order tonight and have on your desk tomorrow.
A history of the game from the marshes of Queerditch to the modern professional leagues, borrowed from the Hogwarts library and never quite returned on time.
A book of wizarding fairy tales left to Hermione Granger in Dumbledore's will. One of the five stories in it turns out to be the plot of the novel.
A picture book about a lost cow, read to a baby by the most dangerous man in Ankh-Morpork, at six o'clock, every single day, no matter what.
Volumes that harm the people who open them. Read the label first.
12 volumesBooks without a last page, and books that contain every other book.
4 volumesImagined first, printed later. These are the ones you can actually take down off a shelf.
6 volumesScripture for religions that were never practised.
3 volumesInstructions for things that should not be attempted.
6 volumesDestroyed, hidden, or never quite finished. Known only by their absence.
5 volumesThe library that fiction keeps inside itself.
14 volumesEncyclopaedias, bestiaries, atlases and manuals for worlds that need them.
15 volumesBooks someone was made to study, whether or not they wanted to.
5 volumes