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What if you start reading a book and suddenly realize that the book ''is about you!'' This has got to be some joke, right? But then how could whoever have done this have known that you would read the section which says you are in the cafeteria reading the book under a table, at the exact time you were doing just that? And now it's talking about what you're contemplating at this very moment, and this ''[[Mind Screw|blows your mind]]''.

 

 

 

:The book already seems to be completely written and appears to have predicted your every move. This may double as a [[Tome of Fate]], depending on whether the book itself is magic (which would qualify under this trope), or someone else merely wrote such things in a more or less standard book (which would not qualify). Sometimes events written in the book turn out to be wrong, or able to be changed by the character's reaction to the information the book provides.

 

:The book writes itself as you read it, observing rather than predicting your movements. It may contain information merely about what happens around the book itself or things which are pertinent to the plot of the story. Often these books also have some form of omniscience, and have things written in them that the protagonist could never have known about (''"Little does Alice know, that Bob is sneaking up behind her at this very moment!"''). The words might literally appear on the page before your eyes, or as you turn the last page written on there might mysteriously be a next one.

 

:The book must be written in, and the things you write about start happening. There may be certain rules attached to this version, or not everything you write will happen, it might be random chance which elements your write down come to pass.

 

* In ''[[Stranger Than Fiction]]'', the protagonist finds out that unwittingly by all involved, he's the main character of a book currently being written by an author famous for killing off her characters.

* ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story]]'' features ''The Neverending Story'', a magic book that dictates what is happening in the world of Fantasia and the main character, who is initially reading the book on earth.