Books in Minecraft are useless without imagination. If you just want a pickaxe, skip the book. But if you want to feel like a wizard-publisher-tyrant, make one.
Start small. Kill a cow. Plant some sugarcane. Craft one book. Then enchant something dumb, like a shovel. Laugh as it becomes a god-tier digging machine.
Now go forth. Write terrible poetry. Make an unbreakable hoe. Prank your friends with signed book memoirs. You’re a book maker. And that’s way cooler than a castle builder.