Everything stated by Grick and Themetricksystem sounds good and all, but my question on the subject is how does the Alchemist know what kind of spell it is that he is copying from a scroll or spellbook if he cannot cast the lv. 0 spell Read Magic? For all he knows, he could be copying a Fireball spell, and the moment he ingests it, because the formula isn't correct, the spell would go off inside him, taking massive fire damage. Heck, he could explode. The spell Read Magic would save him from such a painful death if he could only cast it.
