Actually books aren't gear. They go right next to the spin metal, ether seeds, rare coins, and glass shards, I believe. That particular inventory if far more spacious than our full selection of favoured guns and armor. Many people say believe the g. cards are fine for covering lore, however books have a potential to do far more, such as open New faction quests, give us points with the cryptarch, our even teach us new gestures. Haha. Not that it's mandatory, but their addition seems more beneficial to the world of Destiny than detrimental.

Your definitely right on that point, it certainly can't hurt but I feel like it would be best implemented as just a more in depth grimoire, which is naturally where we store everything we learn about the Destiny Universe. I found the information on the grimoire cards after the Beta to be really unsatisfying. With that in mind, when we find historical data such as texts, data caches, pre-collapse logs and the like; I think it would be sweet if the artifact itself could be returned to a character at the tower like the cryptarch, speaker or whomever in exchange for glimmer or a similar reward, while the information was copied in its full unadulterated glory into our grimoire for future reference. Keeps the inventory lighter, provides a new type of returnable item, but still holds the player experience value of discovering new lore to satisfy our ravenous Warlockian hunger for knowledge. Does that sound better?

Aye, that is good. Very good indeed. I had the same unsatisfactory feeling after reading my entire g. card collection also, which is fairly substantial. My score in the beta got up to 770. The hunger for knowledge is real. Lol. However, I agree that we'd need a place or person to take books off our hands too. Even vault space has a limit. One that gets reached quickly, I came to find.