On a more grotesque note, Balberith, the Librarian of Leviathan's realm in Hellraiser uses a similar technique in making her books
The Library at Unseen University on Discworld contains books there are powerful enough to read you right back, and if a careless reader lets their mind wander at the wrong moment, then they tend to find the book the next morning, in front of an empty pile of clothes, in a new, expanded, and much, smugger edition.