The book scribes team's lifestyle profession of record keepers requires reading more to improve their skill points,
a task that other players find quite boring and of little use.
However, the Spirits have done an excellent job at balancing the professions, with each combat role having its own advantages, and the lifestyle professions having their own joys.
It all depends on whether or not the players can experience that joy.
Shi Qi was one who had experienced the joy of the record keeper lifestyle profession, and just the fact that other players had a low level of Spirit language and couldn't even get through the first chapter of a book was enough to make him… feel a sense of superiority as a record keeper.
Not all books in Spirits are just props to explain the game background; some are magic books and books related to hidden quests.
Shi Qi believed that within this prop book he held named 'Queen Mei's Private Diary'... there must be a major hidden quest.