Feared by librarians, the Book Snatchers are a gang of pirates whose target of choice are the various libraries across the floating lands. No genre is safe from their pillaging, from trashy romance novels to dull historical atlases. Their stolen goods are often found being resold in flea markets for a fraction of their actual worth, with most books being priced at around $8. This pricing likely is the result of incompetence rather than ideology, as none of the crew members can read above a 5th-grade level.