[ED4] Book Memory Wizards

[Dougansf]

If you use Book Memory on your Grimoire, can you use the stored memory to enable other actions that require the Grimoire?

The Book Mage ability gained at Circle 5 Wizard?
Grimoire casting?

Any other benefits?

[etherial]

[Fusilliban]

[Dougansf]

[Fusilliban]

If a high-Circle Grimoire sells for thousands of silver, then it's basically a money factory for the first few Wizards who turn themselves into printing presses. Then, a year later, copies of Astral Catastrophe are being sold in pamphlet form in all major cities for 50 silver each.

[Dougansf]

Then what is this talent actually good for?
Especially in comparison to any of the other Novice optional talents?

[Fusilliban]

Saving money on library fees. Encyclopedic knowledge of any subject you can find a real good book on. Worrying less about the fragility of that one amazingly awesome ancient tome you found in a kaer. Permanently memorizing any book someone is foolish enough to leave you alone with for ten minutes.

The ability to carry a personal library of a half a dozen books of your choice that can't be damaged by rain or mud or fire is pretty useful when no one has a Kindle. Got an atlas? Got a Dwarf-to-Theran dictionary? Got a copy of The Complete Compendium of Laws of the Kingdom of Throal that you can now cite off the top of your head?

Memorize a compendium of herbal knowledge and avoid this classic problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QChdBRsDJII

[Baravakar]

[Telarus_KSC]

[Dougansf]