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{{quote|''"Our friends need our help! Please turn to the time travel section of your Fireside Girls Handbook."''
|'''Isabella Garcia-Shapiro''', ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''}}
The Great Big Book of Everything: The one-stop shop for all your plot needs. [[How Do I Shot Web?|Need information]] about the [[New Super Power|super-power you've just been given]]? On the first page. Want to find the only way to kill the [[Big Bad]]? It has a detailed entry.
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Compare with [[Library of Babel]] and [[Tomes of Prophecy and Fate]]. Contrast [[Blank Book]].
If it's evil, then it's a [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]. Supertrope to [[Big Book of War]]. This trope is [[Do-Anything Robot]] in book form - and YOU do the Anything!
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== Anime
* Yue's power in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is this, complete with an actual book that finds everything she needs. In ''Negima!?'', Nodoka's "Armor" power has the same ability.
** Material in the manga (vol. 16) reveals that it's actually tapping in a magical 'net, which can be both an advantage and a flaw: Information is always up-to-date, but you risk losing data [[Wikipedia|"arbitrarily deemed of lesser importance"]]
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* The Absorbacon in [[Silver Age]] ''[[Hawkman]]'' comics.
== Fan
* Parodied in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' fanfic ''[[Those Lacking Spines]]'' with the ever-handy guidebook which contains anything the protagonists need to know about a given world.
* In the ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' fanfic ''[[Keepers of the Elements]]'', there are The Elemental Books which contains all sorts of spells which each Keeper along the line either invented or improved upon.
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