not books....tomes! There were a couple of them in BG1...they increase a certain stat by one point and are consumed upon use. If you want to know what they are like, you can cheat them using CLUAConsole ..I think book 3 to 8 although the wisdom and charisma ones don't work
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Melusine, Archbabe of the OHF and the LH
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