"Do you have some kind of library curse?" Salem asked. "Should you put the book down and back away slowly?" This was very specific, and maybe explained why he didn't know how book jobs worked, if one of them had cursed his family to stay away from them forever. More importantly, "You know, there's lots of other clothes lying around, you could have updated the look any time in the last 600 years. They usually keep those in malls, too, not libraries."