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> Nailing the Libra shut.

Assuming that there is no enchantment on the Libra (which is a big assumption), then it would be possible to nail it shut. However, the nail can be removed by the person who crafted it. That means that someone could use the nail as a kind of clasp, with himself as the only key that can open it. However, as imaj notes, the spells come with reversals, and someone else could in theory use the reversal to remove the nail.

> Resealing the book.

Someone asked me about that recently, and I more or less did answer HEY LOOK BEHIND YOU. I think I also did a certain amount of handwaving around a possible answer. I think there has to be a definite "performative" aspect to parting with the book in order for it to reseal. The death of the owner would reseal it. Selling it for money would reseal it. Explicitly bestowing it on someone else would reseal it.

But if you're feckless enough to just lose it, or to let someone else usurp control of it, then it wouldn't reseal. It still belongs to you; it's not the book's business to save you from being a dumbass by letting your friends or enemies borrow it permanently.

I think the above rule covers most cases in BoM where the Libra changes hands. Blackwell may have sold it on accident to Arnholm's, but he did sell it. And lots of times Will just fails to stick up for himself and lets someone else just carry it off from him.

> Destroying the book.

Oh, there's definitely an answ—

HEY WHAT'S THAT BEHIND YOU?

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