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* There's a kids' series called ''Alice in Bibleland' that centers on this premise.

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* There's a kids' series called ''Alice in Bibleland' Bibleland'' that centers on this premise.
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* {{Angel} Book of the Dead had a variant of type two, where Wesley was sucked into a book and trapped in its pages-he to help the other trapped people and defeat the people-eating worm demon hunting everyone before he could escape.

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* {{Angel} {{Angel}} Book of the Dead had a variant of type two, where Wesley was sucked into a book and trapped in its pages-he to help the other trapped people and defeat the people-eating worm demon hunting everyone before he could escape.
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* {{Angel} Book of the Dead had a variant of type two, where Wesley was sucked into a book and trapped in its pages-he to help the other trapped people and defeat the people-eating worm demon hunting everyone before he could escape.

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** ''SonicAndTheBlackKnight''


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* The Pirate movie ''MagicIsland'' has a boy named Jack get sucked into his book. He ends up saving a mermaid and some treasure from Blackbeard the pirate.
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* {{Gumby}} can do this in ''{{Asperchu}}''

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* {{Gumby}} can do this in ''{{Asperchu}}''
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Chances are 10 to 1 that there will be AnAesop about the value of reading. Nobody is more likely to fall into a Portal Book than a video game or TV junkie who thinks books are boring. A {{Bookworm}}'s best hope of getting to experience this trope is if the Aesop is "BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor," and he must learn to stop withdrawing into the fantasy world of his books and "live in the real world." (Of course, ''either'' lesson runs the risk of being a SpaceWhaleAesop, given that books in the real world don't work like this.)

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Chances are 10 to 1 that there will be AnAesop about the value of reading. Nobody is more likely to fall into a Portal Book than a video game or TV junkie who thinks books are boring. A {{Bookworm}}'s best hope of getting to experience this trope is if the Aesop is "BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor," and he must learn to stop withdrawing into the fantasy world of his books and "live in the real world." (Of course, ''either'' lesson runs the risk of being a SpaceWhaleAesop, given that books in the real world don't work like this.))

Compare PortalDoor, for doors that lead someplace non-adjacent.

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* ''LooneyTunes'' and/or ''MerrieMelodies'': "Sniffles and the Bookworm," "Have You Got Any Castles?", and "Book Revue" all involve characters from books coming to life and interacting with each other.

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* ''LooneyTunes'' and/or ''MerrieMelodies'': "Sniffles and the Bookworm," "Have You Got Any Castles?", and "Book Revue" all involve characters from books coming to life and interacting with each other.other.
** The ''Animainiacs'' episode "Video Review" is an updated homage to the above shorts, particularly "Book Revue", applying the same concept to a rental store full of videocassettes.
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* Inverted with Orson from ''GarfieldAndFriends'', who seems to have the power of pulling creatures, characters, and scenarios out of books [[RealityWarper just by reading them]].
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* ''AdventuesFromTheBookOfVirtues''.

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* ''AdventuesFromTheBookOfVirtues''.''AdventuresFromTheBookOfVirtues''.
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* ''AdventuesFromTheBookOfVirtues''.

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* To link books togetehr in ''{{Myst}}'', the world has to be described in its pages (in an [[LanguageOfMagic archaic, chinese-like form of D'ni]]), but once completed, the books on the shelf act similar to a PortalNetwork.

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* To link books togetehr together in ''{{Myst}}'', the world has to be described in its pages (in an [[LanguageOfMagic archaic, chinese-like form of D'ni]]), but once completed, the books on the shelf act similar to a PortalNetwork.


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* The Book in TheBookOfStoriesOCT.

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* Technically doesn't happen in ''{{Myst}}'', but the effect of linking books is similar.
** It's a variant mixture of types 1 and 2, as for the linking books to work, the world has to be described in its pages (in an [[LanguageOfMagic archaic, chinese-like form of D'ni]]), but once completed, the books on the shelf act similar to a PortalNetwork.

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* Technically doesn't happen To link books togetehr in ''{{Myst}}'', but the effect of linking books is similar.
** It's a variant mixture of types 1 and 2, as for the linking books to work,
the world has to be described in its pages (in an [[LanguageOfMagic archaic, chinese-like form of D'ni]]), but once completed, the books on the shelf act similar to a PortalNetwork.
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* This is the plot of ''DokiDokiPanic'', the game of which ''{{Super Mario Bros 2}}'' is a DolledUpInstallment.

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* This is the plot of ''DokiDokiPanic'', the game of which ''{{Super ''VideoGame/{{Super Mario Bros 2}}'' is a DolledUpInstallment.

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* An episode of ''TheFairlyOddParents'' called "Shelf Life."

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* An episode of ''TheFairlyOddParents'' called "Shelf Life."Life," which includes the interesting complication that altering anything in non-fiction books will alter the history or physics of the real world.
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* Adventures of the Week on ''MuppetBabies'' frequently took the kids into books, including ''AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'', ''PeterPan'', ''ThePiedPiperOfHamelin'', and numerous {{Fairy Tale}}s. Interestingly, the episode specifically about books and libraries ''didn't'' use this but rather put the kids in the setting of ''{{Labyrinth}}'' searching for Piggy's lost ''AliceInWonderland'' book.
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* {{Gumby}} can do this in ''{{Asperchu}}''
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* Done in the ''{Charmed}'' episode Charmed Noir, where Paige and Kyle get trapped in a book written by two of the Magic School's students.

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* Done in the ''{Charmed}'' ''{{Charmed}}'' episode Charmed Noir, "Charmed Noir," where Paige and Kyle get trapped in a book written by two of the Magic School's students.


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** It's a variant mixture of types 1 and 2, as for the linking books to work, the world has to be described in its pages (in an [[LanguageOfMagic archaic, chinese-like form of D'ni]]), but once completed, the books on the shelf act similar to a PortalNetwork.
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* [[IMMeen "When they open up this book, they're sucked inside instead to the most unpleasant place they've ever seen..."]]
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--> This is the story of a girl who gathered the seven seishi of Suzaku, and acquired the power to make every wish come true. The story itself is an incantation. Whoever finishes the book shall recieve this power. As soon as the page is turned, the story will become truth and begin...
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* ''SuperWhy''.
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# As a literary version of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Characters get AppliedPhlebotinum that allows them to enter the setting of one or more previously completely mundane, non-magical books. The conflict often centers on how their interference threatens to screw up the plot, and they have to get the original story back on track to resolve the "right" way.

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# As a literary version of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong or WaybackTrip: Characters get AppliedPhlebotinum that allows them to enter the setting of one or more previously completely mundane, non-magical books. The conflict often centers on how their interference threatens to screw up the plot, and they have to get the original story back on track to resolve the "right" way.



Chances are 10 to 1 that there will be AnAesop about the value of reading. Nobody is more likely to fall into a Portal Book than a video game or TV junkie who thinks books are boring. A {{Bookworm}}'s best hope of getting to experience this trope is if the Aesop is "BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor," and he must learn to stop withdrawing into the fantasy world of his books and "live in the real world."

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Chances are 10 to 1 that there will be AnAesop about the value of reading. Nobody is more likely to fall into a Portal Book than a video game or TV junkie who thinks books are boring. A {{Bookworm}}'s best hope of getting to experience this trope is if the Aesop is "BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor," and he must learn to stop withdrawing into the fantasy world of his books and "live in the real world."" (Of course, ''either'' lesson runs the risk of being a SpaceWhaleAesop, given that books in the real world don't work like this.)
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* One of the [[SCPFoundation SPCs]] is the two book stoppers that turn ''any'' book inserted between them into such a portal. Explorer's actions while inside are also reflected in the book after they leave it.
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* Similarly, the plot of [[MickeyMouse Disney's Magical Quest 3]].

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* Technically doesn't happen in ''{{Myst}}'', but the effect of linking books is similar.


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* Technically doesn't happen in ''{{Myst}}'', but the effect of linking books is similar.
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* ''ThePerryBibleFellowship'' provides its own [[http://www.cookingschoolnews.com/?cid=PBF130-Book_World.gif twisted take]] on this.

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* Done in the ''{Charmed}'' episode Charmed Noir, where Paige and Kyle get trapped in a book written by two of the Magic School's students.
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* In the '80s, the German RPG ''Das schwarze Auge'' (Realms of Arcania) had a franchise for kids, called ''Der Geheimbund des Schwarzen Auges''. In this game, you were a Guardian at 'The Library', and whenever there is something in a book that went wrong - e.g. Huckleberry Finn got lost in the cave, Long John Silver has staged another coup on Treasure island or whatever - the Guardians enter the book and its story to set it back on track.
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* "I can go anywhere! Take a look! It's in a book! A ''ReadingRainbow!''"

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