Alchemist's Book

An Alchemist's Book is a blank book that can be used to read the elemental composition of anything that it scans. The process of scanning involves tapping the object with a blank page, which will then become filled margin to margin with details. It is quite useful for finding out the properties of both items and creatures and such information can be used to know what one will get from decomposing the object in alkahest, or for making corrective serums and medicines to alter a creature's characteristics.
== Variants ==
There exists a powerful variant of the Alchemist book that allows its user to remove and store some elements of scanned objects in range and even replace them with other elements that are already stored. This allows for rapid transmutations and has mood as well as potentially personality altering properties if used on Ib.