Written Book

Written Book is a finished, signed book. You make one from a Book and Quill: write your pages, press Sign, give it a title, and the Book and Quill turns into a Written Book that shows the title and your name as its author. In Java Edition you can also copy a Written Book by crafting it together with one or more Book and Quills.

Once signed, a Written Book can be read but never edited again, so it is the way to hand out rules for a server, a story, a guide to a base or a map, without anyone changing the words. Placing a Written Book on a lectern lets every player who walks up read it, page by page.

Unlike a Book and Quill, which does not stack, the Written Book stacks up to 16 in one slot.