using-book

# Using Book Use Book when the user wants whole-book absorption, ordered reading, or recovery of an active Book lease. Skip ordinary lookup, summarization of supplied excerpts, and unsupported HTML, scanned/OCR PDF, MOBI, or AZW3 input. Book is a **silent control plane**. Do not narrate status checks, leases, locators, coverage commits, source lookup, or other routine tool calls. Never inspect its SQLite, plugin files, or runtime binaries and never probe CLI help for routine arguments. Give the user only the requested reading result, progress that materially affects them, or a concise actionable failure. ## Enter or recover 1. Inspect `LWC_READINESS.book`. It is read-only capability metadata, not consent to enable, install, import, or expose book text. 2. If disabled, explain the durable local-data boundary and ask once before running `lwc --scope global config set --book enabled`. An explicit enable request already supplies consent. Enabling does not download; the first `lwc book status` may lazily install the fixed hash-verified runtime. 3. Run `lwc book status`. Recover the current book and outstanding lease before import or new reading. Retry with the same `request_id`, owner, and `if_revision`. 4. After cross-machine recovery, require the latest successful Sync receipt and run an explicit exact-revision takeover. The old owner must stop writing after takeover. ## Ordered reading 1. Import only EPUB, TXT, Markdown, or text PDF. Preserve returned `b...