a book that knows

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures:SCP-6029 is to be kept in a standard bibliographic object containment locker, stored at minimal security Site-76. Interactions with the item is allowed by any clearance level staff.

Description:SCP-XXXX is upont first look, an ordinary copy of the book: ”Der Vorleser” (the reader) by Bernard Shlink, this particular copy is a brazillian 10th edition, published by the record publisher in brazil, all text in the cover is written in portuguese,the first two pages contain the translated book title: "o leitor", other titles of the author published by record, edition number and publisher logo.

However, the writing in the book varies depending on the reader, it has been confirmed by all of the staff who read the book, that the content is just like a biography, telling the reader’s story, some of the staff also revealed that they have read things that were kept a secret by them, and there is no way for someone else to know.

When a person opens the book, they come across the beginning of their life, texts with their personal information such as father and mother’s name, date and local of birth, and in some cases, more details, such as the family’s financial conditions at the time, or tragedies happened shortly before or after the birth, among other more intimate details of the reader, which can be more or less detailed, depending of the person who reads it.

When two or more people look at the pages, only the person who opened the cover can see the text, the other people can see nothing but blank pages. After this experiment, it was confirmed that the book does not contain any text, but it has mind-bending habilities, and the writing being only a projection of the reader’s mind, it is unsure why the book can be read by only one person at a time.

At the ending of the text, the reader can see a random number of blank pages, however, further research resulted in older people having fewer blank pages at the end, while younger people having a lot more, which hypotetized the idea of the blank pages being directly linked to the person’s remaining time of life.