"Hatching copies is the way to go, I think. That way I don't even need to take interesting books away from your chambers to have a read of them." She beams back.

(Burning books, though, would be entirely too distressing an idea to occur to her. Even the horrifying- records of what's horrifying should particularly be preserved, in her view, but ideally so no one is stupid enough to do it again. Or simply so that it can't be erased, deaths undone and lives never lived because of what's agreed upon as history.)