Virtual Spellbooks

[Ogrork the Mighty]

Use fabricate, and produce the entire spellbook for 1/3rd the basic price.

I don't think this would work. Fabricate allows you to duplucate "material of one sort" and turn it into something else. But a spellbook is almost always made up of more than one material ("sort"). At the very least, there is usually paper and ink. Add in leather binding, metal locks, different coloured dyes, gold leaf, etc. and you've got a whole bunch more materials than one "sort."

Taking a hunk of steel and fabricating it into an entire car would be equally unreasonable, IMO.

 

[Saeviomagy]

I don't think this would work. Fabricate allows you to duplucate "material of one sort" and turn it into something else. But a spellbook is almost always made up of more than one material ("sort"). At the very least, there is usually paper and ink. Add in leather binding, metal locks, different coloured dyes, gold leaf, etc. and you've got a whole bunch more materials than one "sort."

Ok then, use polymorph any object. Hell, you could even polymorph one normal book into another book full of spells. You would, of course, require whatever expensive components make up the ink, but again - that's at 1/3rd the cost because we're talking about the required materials, not the final product. Poly a container full of ink material into the ink, splash it on an ordinary book, then poly the book into a full spellbook...

Of course one could argue that you don't have the contents of the book memorised, but then you hardly need to memorise the cellular structure of a tiger if you're turning a person into a tiger...