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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Book Girl]]'': It's not used for information particularly (she mostly eats fiction), but the title character experiences books by eating them.
* ''[[Firmin]]'' by Sam Savage is a book about a rat [[Uplifted Animal]] this way.
* In the novel ''[[Professor MmaasMmaa's Lecture]]'', the protagonists—termites -- "read" human writing by eating the paper and remembering where they can taste the ink, then reciting the writing from memory.
* Samsonite is a chemical invented by Samson Fandorin, an ancestor of [[Erast Fandorin]] in [[Boris Akunun]]'s book "Quest". Drinking it lets the user hear a message from Fandorin. It can also contain general knowledge (in the novel, Russian language and culture).
* This is how Magickians use the Encyclopedia Necromantick [[Book of Shadows]] in ''[[The Dragon Knight]]''.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The Space Marines of ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' deserve a mention as they were revealed in ''Deathwatch'' to be able to literally gain a person's recent memories by physically eating a portion of their brain. Tasty.
* In ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'', intellect devourers, small brain-sized creatures (with legs) can eat a victim's brain, then insert themselves into the skull and control the body like a meat puppet. (They can heal the grievous hole they needed to make in order to get inside.) Making matters worse, they absorb at least some of the victim's memories, making it easier to impersonate them.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Until a recent update, your character in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons Online]]'' used stat-enhancing books pretty much exactly like this.
* In the [[All There in the Manual|backstory]] to ''[[StarcraftStarCraft]]'', the Overmind absorbed the knowledge of the xel'naga by, well, absorbing them.
* How does the Dragonborn learn the [[Make Me Wanna Shout|Thu'um]] in [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]? The quickest way would be to [[Your Soul Is Mine|absorb the soul of a vanquished Dragon]] and glean the knowledge from them, consuming the soul in the process.
 
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