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Hello, are there any Pokémon that eat books?

A few bug types in their larvae form tend to be drawn to the cellulose and starch found in paper, and will absolutely chew on those pages. These include but are not limited to: Venonat, Wurmple, Scatterbug and Grubbin. Rodent pokemon also chew on books so keep an eye out for them.

It's important to note that none of these eat books as a primary source of nutrition, so if you have any of these pokemon and you keep them well fed and trained, you shouldn't have much of a problem. If they start sniffing around your bookshelves that might indicate mold growing in your shelves, dust, or really high humidity.

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Librarian Kaela here. Go ahead and ramble at me about ghost-types in literature. (My spooky guys are hovering by me as I type. they want to know! /hj)

Hi Kaela!! Thanks for the ask.

Ghost types are almost unavoidable in literature, and they're present in every single genre: from horror to romance, from fantasy to sci-fi. They're useful both as a plot and narrative device, as well as certain characters due to their supernatural-ish nature.

There's a lot of iconic ghosts in literature, and they're not limited to just horror stories: Hamlet's father coming back as a Yamask with the King's face on it, the different ghost pokemon that visit Scrooge in the Winter Solstice Carol, the pokemon that raised Nobody Owens in the Greavard's book, so on and so forth.

There's also the fact that a lot of people who write or study literature are drawn to ghost types as well. And it makes sense, doesn't it? What is literature but a haunting inscribed in ink? What are stories but hauntings of events? Ghost types love haunting libraries for a reason.

Anyways, I've rambled a lot at this point, but outside of everything I just said, ghost types are just cool and fun! There's still a lot of things about them we don't understand and that really sets off a writer's creativity because the possibilities are quite literally endless.

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remember that story about the paldean guy who tried to battle a windmill cuz he thought it was a duraludon

Oh yeah, Don Quixote! The timeless tale of a man and his Quaquaval futilely trying to ascribe to a chivalric code of times long gone.

It's not one of my favorites but it is a must read, and the way Sancho the Quaquaval plays against Quixote's delusions can be very very funny.

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(@wingsofachampion) Hiya! What kinds of books exist here in the human world? -Tropius

I mean, all manner of books exist in general. But if you're asking about classics, then stuff like The Wailord and Pokemon Farm are obvious must reads.

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Goldeen, Goldeen, Goldeen, Goldeeeeen, Please don’t catch it just because you can.

- Dolly Parton, Jolene

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There are browser racks on each side, and a couple more in the window, and CDs and cassettes on the walls in glass cases, and that’s more or less the size of it; it’s just about big enough, provided we don’t get any Pokemon, so most days it’s just about big enough.

- Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

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“Horsea, can you play chess? Now, don’t smile, my dear, I’m asking it seriously. Because, when we were playing just now, you watched just as if you understood it: and when I said ‘Check!’ you whinnied!”

- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

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FIRST PRIEST: ...You would bar the door Against the Zubat, the Cubone, the Gloom or the Bulbasaur, Why not more Against Pokemon with the souls of damned men, against men Who would damn themselves to Pokemon.

- T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral