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== Anime and Manga ==
* The ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' is a book that when you write someone's name in it, they die. If you write in how they are to die, provided it's feasible they will die in that manner and time, otherwise they die of a heart attack by default.
* ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'' features journals which contain the future entries of characters, allowing them to see what they'll experience in the future, and react to them. The journals change as they do things. Most of these journals take the form of diaries entered into cellphones, though one woman has hers on a scroll.
* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'': The Create Card is a [[Reality Warper]] book that makes everything written in it materialize.
* '''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' has "The Universe of the Four Gods", which is type 2. While Miaka and Yui continue their adventure, people in our world can read, what is happening in this moment in Four God's dimension.
* Zetta becomes a type III book in ''[[Makai Kingdom]]''.
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{{quote| Destiny continues to walk... He is holding a book. Inside the book is the universe.}}
* The Awesome Comics mini-series ''[[Youngblood Judgment Day]]'', written by [[Alan Moore]], revolved around a mystical book. Anything written in this book became reality.
* In the [[Dragon Magazine(magazine)]] comic ''Libram X'', the eponymous tome is both [[Tomes of Prophecy and Fate|the accurate self-writing log]] and can be written (one magic quill is included in the kit). Which naturally explains why [[MacGuffin|everyone and their dogs tried to find it]] all this time.
* ''Once In a Blue Moon'' has sort of a [[Timey-Wimey Ball|timey-wimey]] twist: Aeslin goes back to Avalon because of something she sees about to happen in the magic book, but the writer of the book in Avalon doesn't write that part until ''after'' it happens.
 
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* 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 (Filmfilm)|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.
* An example of a video rather than a book. ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'' has the evil characters discovering the video of the movie they are starring in--at one point their actions both in the film universe and the video are perfectly synched up ("Sir, you're looking at now now"), to the characters' bemusement.
 
 
== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Land of Oz (Literature)|Land of Oz]]'' Glinda the Good Witch of the South has a book in which is written everything that happens in Oz, as it happens. If she needs to find out what happened at any given time she just looks it up.
* The Book of Three from the ''[[Chronicles of Prydain]]''.
* In ''[[Discworld]]'' death has an entire library of books that write themselves as people's lives unfold.
* In [[Edward Eager]]'s ''Seven Day Magic'', the children find a magic book that not only lets them wish themselves into other books, but also records everything that happens to them as it happens. And whenever anyone else picks it up, it appears as whatever book they would most like to read.
* ''[[InkheartThe (Literature)Inkworld Trilogy|Inkheart]]'' had a variation: Meggie and Mo can read things (and people) in and out of books. In ''Inkspell'', {{spoiler|they both read themselves into the Inkworld, where this becomes a [[Reality Warper]] power--Fenoglio, the author, is there too, and he can write passages for them to read aloud and make those things come true.}}
* ''[[Young Wizards]]'' has The Book of Night With Moon.
* The eponymous book in ''[[The Neverending Story (Literaturenovel)|The Neverending Story]]'', the basis for the film mentioned above.
 
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'': Chuck the Prophet writes books about two characters he thinks he made up named Sam & Dean Winchester, who have lives identical to the real Sam & Dean. At some points what he writes lines up with what's happening to Sam & Dean at that exact time. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBltFtAfiEg Like this scene in the laundromat:]
{{quote| ''Sam is doing laundry as Dean sits nearby, reading from Chuck's latest manuscript.''<br />
Dean: I'm sitting in a laundromat, reading about myself sitting in a laundromat reading about myself... My head hurts.<br />
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Dean: "'Stop it,' Sam said." Guess what you do next. ''(Sam turns away, scowling.)'' "Sam turned his back on Dean, his face brooding and pensive." I mean, I don't know how he's doing it, but this guy is doing it. I can't see your face, but those are definitely your "brooding and pensive" shoulders. ''(Sam sighs, exasperated. Dean looks down at the manuscript.)'' You just thought I was a dick.<br />
Sam: ''(turns around looking impressed.)'' The guy's good. }}
* ''[[Lost Girl (TV)|Lost Girl]]'' has the Blood King's book with which he can alter reality if he writes in it with his ''own blood''.
* ''[[The X -Files]]'' had an episode where a writer moves in to Scully's apartment building and starts affecting her life with his writing. He also {{spoiler|spawns a serial killer}}.
* The ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' episode "The Quill Is Mightier..." features a magic scroll that causes whatever is written on it to become reality. The scroll tends to be something of a [[Literal Genie]].
 
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* The book in ''[[Avalon Code]]'' is roughly this. It's meant to record everything in the world, but you must record everything ''manually'' by slamming the book on top of them, whether they're a person, a monster or an inanimate object. You can play mix-and-match with some of their attributes to weaken or strengthen them (making monsters easier or harder to fight) and do other tweaks.
* ''[[Makai Kingdom]]''. The Sacred Tome [[Tomes of Prophecy and Fate|predicts the future with absolute certainty]], and whatever is written in it BECOMES the truth. 'Badass Freakin' Overlord' Zetta is pissed off because the tome claims that he will destroy his own Netherworld through foolishness and arrogance, so he burns it. This causes the entire world to collapse, and he has to quickly transform HIMSELF into the Sacred Tome to prevent a total collapse, though his own Netherworld still bites it, thus [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|proving the prediction true]]... Most of the gameplay basically centers around using the powers of the Zetta-Tome, by having various characters write 'wishes' into it, thus making them come true.
* ''[[Wizardry (Video Game)|Wizardry]]'' Dark Savant Trilogy (''VI'', ''VII'', ''8'') has the Cosmic Forge, a pen and Tome Of Fate. Anything written in it will become true, albeit [[Jackass Genie|not as the writer expects]]. If written pages are torn out, history itself will be [[Retcon|Ret Conned]]. [[Multiple Endings|One of the endings]] in ''8'' {{spoiler|has you doing exactly that in an attempt to [[Ret-Gone]] the Dark Savant, but since the process is not instantaneous, you must fight him anyway. After you defeat him, you quickly write down every bit of history you can recall.}}
* Gran Grimoire from [[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]] has changed entire town into fantasy kingdom.
* Luso Clemens from [[Final Fantasy Tactics a 2]]: Grimoire of the Rift has Type 2 / Type 3 book (Grimoire of the Rift) that writes itself, recording Luso experiences. It was also used to travel between worlds.
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== Western Animation ==
* One of these appears in a later episode of ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'', when it's rewritten by [[Big Bad|Shendu]]. Luckily Jade is left unaffected since she manages to tear out the page that relates to her, leaving her unaltered.
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'': Sabrina finds a typewriter in the attic. The short story she writes is Type 3.
* On ''[[Regular Show]]'' forging the park records has this effect. Mordecai and Rigby do it to trick Benson into giving them a raise, but Rigby overdoes it, resulting in the park being attacked by a snow monster.
 
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