I've run into a conundrum with Ars Nouvaeu, which has both a Patchouli Book and spell book items that probably shouldn't count as an actual book. Of course, I can remove "book" from the whitelisted names, but that has its own side effects. It would be easier if there was a way to blacklist individual items than have to re-add all "book" items to my whitelist.

good idea, will add that.