"That's handy," he agrees, gladly taking the book offered to him. He's going to hang onto it while he's roaming around the gathering, if that's fine. Although— "So this would theoretically be available to me anytime I came back here? Or any other book you think into existence?"

He likes the idea of being able to consult all this information in his own time, maybe on his own, do his own studying up on the events here.

"Traveled, no. But I've had experience with it, you might say." He is familiar with the existence of parallel realities, at least, and he's met others who did travel across universes, albeit accidentally. Which, to be fair, he's not entirely convinced this isn't, but time will tell. He does look fairly impressed at how quickly Istredd reaches that conclusion. "Yes, actually. Space travel is very commonplace where I'm from. I'm Captain of a starship."