[lavi briefly considers LYING and saying they're a clan of book-shaped spirits... but he's already leeched lucas so maybe next time...]

Kinda! We're historians, so we deal with books sometimes, but we're usually in the field so we can get firsthand accounts. There's only one Bookman at a time -- that's my Gramps right now. I'm his apprentice, and the rest of us support him in other ways.