Limit of fifty books at a time. 

Wow, that's plenty. She stuffs her chosen books in her pockets, freed from gravity, and looks for stuff on:

- the masquerade
- Hell, and other planes
- wulongs, including but not limited to Chinese ones
- lifeweaving
- introductory potion recipes
- one biography of a randomly selected interesting witch, for a sort of cross-section of what might be needful to know about

There are books on avoiding masquerade violations while living on Earth and books on what is known of the metaphysical necessity of the masquerade and books on the magical theory behind the Veil and various anthropological analyses of the masquerade. 

There are books on planar theory, overlapping with but not wholly a subset of Aethernautics; there are anthropological surveys of summoned demons; there's an advice book for people considering taking Consortation Rank Five, there are books (a plurality of which seem to have been written by Watchers) about Hell itself. 

There is a cultural survey of wulongs in various parts of Asia (they're most common in East Asia, but not unheard of as far west as Egypt and as far north as parts of Russia, and slightly less uncommon in India, modern global migration notwithstanding) and how wulongs tend to organize themselves in said countries; there is a yearly periodical on the inter-clan politics of Chinese wulongs; there is a history of Chinese wulong clans; there is a book on Japanese witches with a chapter on wulongs; there are books about wulong biology; there is a book of chapter-biographies of significant wulongs; there are individual book-biographies of wulongs both in that book and not. 

Lifeweaving has a small room in the ranked-magic wing. 

The (very large) alchemy room has a substantial section for recipe books, organized by skill level; there are several shelves in the introductory section, depending on what kind of potions she's interested in. 

She ends up with a book with a pair of hands on the cover cupping a bright red apple, about the Lunabellan witch who first invented Blood Apples. 

May gets a metaphysical necessity book, a Veil theory book, and an anthropology of the masquerade book. She gets an anthropological survey of demons and two books about Hell, one by a Watcher and one by someone who at least doesn't advertise that on the cover. She gets the Japanese witches book and the Chinese clan history and a wulong biology book. She gets a lifeweaving book, the closest thing she can find to "so you heard of lifeweaving last month and can now do it at rank five". She gets Household And Beyond: Alchemy Foundations and also A Witch's Medicine Cupboard, and the biography about blood apple lady. And then she hauls them all over weightlessly to the checkout desk.

Emily has books from several different sections about things magic can do with metal, as well as a survey on various ways art and magic relate to each other, a couple of books on elementalism-in-general, and a book about Luxals. 

Edie has seven books about Hell and one about Naturalism and one about Lilin specifically. 

Ava has a different potion recipe book, a book on runes, and a book about vampires. 

Yaaaay~

While they're checking out May asks the librarian, "Do you know when we'll get our class schedules and syllabi with textbook assignments and stuff?"

"They should be emailed out in just a few days."

"That is enough time to make a serious dent in these books," says May, stuffing some of them in her landscape to make carrying them around less unwieldy.

Emily pulls back her sleeve and, concentrating hard, manages to produce from her arm in a rapid fashion a sort of stainless steel little red wagon, but without the red part. Her and Edie's books can go on that. 

"Wow, that is more volume per time than I was imagining, neat!"

"My main limit is that I have to eat metal in order to secrete metal. Like, in terms of mass. Even though it doesn't have to be the same element."

"Is it tasty?" May wonders as they depart the library.

"Yeah! It's sort of weird, it tastes exactly the same as it did before--not that I had a habit of sucking on pennies, before, but you know how sometimes there's a smell when you hold onto coins for too long--but the valence is completely different. Like how something can taste better when you're hungry for that thing specifically."

"Interesting! Are you going to eat this wagon when we get back to our dorm?"

"Well, I'll wash the parts that have touched the ground first."

"Naturally. It just sounds like it'll be fun to watch at least the first couple times."

"Feel free."

"Do you still have to eat regular food too?"

Shrug. "I suppose my book on Luxals will tell me. I haven't had any reason to test it, I like real food. Even if there aren't any elemental metals that are treif."

"Pardon?"

"--Treif is the opposite of kosher. If a food is not kosher, it is treif. But the list is in blacklist form, not whitelist form, and since the ancient Hebrews wandering in the desert were all, as far as I know, human, nobody ever told them not to eat metals."

"That's good or they'd have problems with supplements. Ooh, I wonder if you can brew potions that are, like, sauces but complementing the flavors metals have..."

"--I know I keep saying this, but I like the way you think."