Mist ΘΔ

I feel like books are both a common and underutilized vector for curses, enchantments, magic, etc. Like, magic spellbooks are pretty common, as well as living books, and books that bring you into a story, but I feel like there's still a lot of options beyond that, which aren't explored as much...

As such, here's a sampler of the magic item shop's bookstore. Everything here's free, of course, but use discretion and read the labels before you read the book... (Some of these have slightly stranger curses than others, and those I suspect might need one will be behind their own content warnings)

• Book of Riveting Nonsense: The book is one hundred pages of random words stung together, following some basic grammar and punctuation rules and not much else. However, anyone who starts to read it will be unable to stop reading it until they finish. This usually takes a few hours, depending on reading speed.
• Riddlemaster's Puzzle Book: A book filled with infinite puzzles and riddles, but its enchanted so you'll always know the step by step solution beforehand, so you yourself will never be able to puzzle through the puzzles.
• The Greluff Dictionary: A dictionary filled with both normal and "fake" words, but if you read a "fake" word and its definition, it will instantly find its way into your vocabulary, and you'll find yourself using it more frequently than you'd expect. "Greluff" is a synonym for "experimental," by the way.
• Brand New Book: Nothing really special about this book's content, but it's been enchanted so the pages are always pristine, the spine is always unbroken, and it always smells like a new book. Actually from around 2007.
• Book Judged by its Cover: A fairly standard fantasy story, as far as the contents go, but everyone who looks at the cover sees an illustration of something different from the story, usually the part of the story that'd be most interesting to a potential reader. Further, the blurb on the back of the book highlights this aspect of the book as well. Might exaggerate, but won't fabricate. Also won't change the book's actual contents.

• The Perfect Sketchbook: Anything drawn in pencil in this sketchbook will end up looking way better than normal. Several subtle enchantments make lines a bit smoother, line width a bit more intentional, shading a bit more clear, all based on reading the intent of your drawing. Found its way into our possession after its previous owner seemingly never used it, presumably wanting to not waste it. Only has 20 pages.
• The Lucky Presser: A big, heavy dictionary with more than 1000 pages. Imbues four leaf clovers pressed inside of it with a luck spell. ...And then shuffles which pages it is between every 10 seconds.
• Generative Journal: An unfilled journal that automatically completes any word you start to pen down. It does try to fill in things that make sense and follow grammar rules, but its not the best guesser usually. About as good as a phone's suggested autocomplete.
• Fashionable Magazine: The magazine itself is a normal fashion magazine, but there's a postcard insert in it that's enchanted, that asks you to write any word on it. If you do so, you'll find yourself suddenly wearing clothes themed around the word you wrote down. The ensemble usually keeps to a style well and generally feels cohesive, but beyond that it might look very goofy or silly or be impractical as far as clothes go regardless.
• Coloring Book: Inside this book, in addition to a bunch of normal coloring pages, you'll find a silhouette of yourself, which you can color in, and if you do so your body, clothes, etc will change to match the colors you put in. You'll return to normal if the colors are erased (white out counts) or if the page is ripped.
• Baby's First Book: Matches the contents of the first book the reader ever read themself, even if they dont recall what that would be. Despite the name, it is not known what those who've never read a book before see...