Book Day

Once called Open Day, Book Day is a celebration of sharing knowledge and highlights the day that the Open Knowledge Act was passed.

Traditions
On this day the Spire Academy is open to the public and its courtyards become a place of learning. Book stalls, open lectures from scholars and smaller study groups are the main event focus, with choreographed fight re-enactments taking place at the end of the day.

While the book stalls require money to purchase books, the lectures and study groups are free to all that attend.

The study groups commonly focus on teaching basic literary and numeric skills, although as these skills became more common place outside the Academy the study groups focused more on specialised fundamentals such as medical skills.

For those in the Earth Kingdom who don’t or cannot travel to the Spire academy may still participate in buying books as there is a general discount applied to bookstores who opt in, those who do are given a tax reduction which is enforced by the Merchants Guild.

Trivia

 * With the advent of the printing press the holiday changed its name to Book Day to encourage more people to learn to read.
 * While books of many kinds are sold, a large amount of them are educational and historical.
 * All Spires are required to wear gloves as both a precaution and a show of good faith.