As I suspected from the curious selection in the school
library, it seems that there is some sort of enchantment over the
grounds such that students' personal notebooks are copied into the
library's collection. An efficient system, certainly, but I wonder at
the animosity toward editorial control that it seems to imply. I can
hardly even prepare a draft without the unpolished manuscript being made available to all and sundry.

I
am somewhat reminded of the open-source credo, "release early and
often," but the facilities for collaboration are woefully inadequate.
Perhaps I have been spoiled by nonmagical distributed revision control, but
the inability to fork a book – or, for that matter, to remove a book
from the library collection – strikes me as exceedingly clumsy.

This
latter is not even effective as a precaution against an author choosing
to "disappear" their book, as text may be erased or chapters torn out,
leaving all magically linked copies as empty covers.

While I am
rather keenly aware that the magical world is often resistant to the
intrusion of nonmagical culture, I shall do what I can to make the most of
the situation and to encourage further progress from others.

To that end, this journal is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

Addendum. It seems that, when I update my master book, although the magically linked copies are updated as expected, the master itself reverts to what I wrote in it initially. This must be a flaw in the spellwork; surely even magical folk have the sense not to do such a thing intentionally?