Occultist - Tome eater and purify food and drink

[Arturo Corso]

I am building a Dean Corso-like Occultist Tome Eater (Occult Adventures). I'm a little more civilized than the half-orc depicted in the manual, preferring to use proper eating utensils when book-eating. Also, well aware that certain inks might also be laden with lead or other toxins, and since I don't want to end up like the prince in Queen Margot, who was poisoned by a book intended for his brother-in-law, do you think that the book qualifies as food? In this context: as a precautionary measure I, can I cast purify food and drink (knack, 0-level psychic spell) on the tome/book before consuming it?

[GeneticDrift]

Books are not food and not listed on any food/drink tables.

No idea who corso is. Make Dean Winchester instead and eat lots of pie. ;) make some spell books out of pie.

[VampByDay]

Talk to your GM, but I'm pretty sure the supernatural ability that tome-eater gives you to eat tomes makes you immune to the bad stuff from eating tomes on a regular basis.

In other words, if your character was to drink some lead-ink they would have a problem, but due to the supernatural ability of your class, if you eat a tome that has lead-ink in it (or an aspestus book cover, or toxic book-binding glue, or whatever) you'd be fine.

Of course, if you were to eat a tome that had just been dropped in a swamp or something, you'd probably become diseased, because the book was covered in filth, but that's because you would be eating swamp-slime WITH the book.

That's how I'd rule it at least.

[Arturo Corso]

Genetic, see Club Dumas. Sorry I'm not that into Supernatural.

Thanks VampByDay, was hoping for no chance of normal poisoning.

[Drake Brimstone]

Try the spell Allfood Then you are good to go, the only problem is it's a Ranger 2 spell.