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*** Naturally, Corran responds by going through the remaining datacard boxes, hoping in vain to find additional weaponry.
{{quote|''He eventually gave up on finding a "Complete History of Corvis Major" that might hold something a bit more substantial, like, say, an X-Wing''}}
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** An odd variant that might be a subversion, a parody, or completely unrelated occurred in ''[[Discworld/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'', when a young Havelock Vetinari hid all the extant copies of a rare book on concealment inside the cover of ''Annals of the Great Accountants, Volume 3''. He thought the author would have approved.
** In ''[[Discworld/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]'', Mrs Whitlow has cleared Ridcully's chambers of food and smoking supplies on the night before the big match. Luckily, his copy of ''An Occult Primer'' contains mints, tobacco, and cigarette papers... along with a note from Mrs. Whitlow that she didn't have the heart to confiscate those as well.
* Mike Ripley's [[Amateur Sleuth]] Angel has a copy of ''The History Of The United States'' adapted into a fireproof safe.
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* In the ''[[Babysitters Club]]'', Claudia mentions that she hides some sweets in a hollowed-out book.
* In the [[Tim Dorsey]] novel ''Stingray Shuffle'', a drug ring sells cocaine to its customers by running a book-shop and giving their drug customers hollowed-out paperbacks of a book entitled 'The Stingray Shuffle' (Chosen because it was an unpopular book that a normal customer wouldn't ask for) which had a gram of cocaine contained in the hollow. They sold so much drugs that way that they inadvertently triggered a revival of interest in the author, which caused a publicity event to be held at the shop, which caused normal people to accidentally buy paperbacks filled with drugs, which brought in the cops.
* In one early ''[[The Witcher|Witcher]]'' story Geralt, convalescing in the Nenneke's monastery, hides his booze behind the books in the library, because Nenneke disapproved of his drinking. Dandelion, visiting his friend there, promptly hangs lampshade on this trope.
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