Tomes of Folklore

[RiversideGuy]

I know I have done SOME of these, is there any way to tell what I may still need to do?

[Kirika-]

I know I have done SOME of these, is there any way to tell what I may still need to do?

If you can't buy it, you already have it learned or have one in your inventory.

So, when you have enough of the tokens to buy one, click it on one in the merchant's window and you either get the purchasing dialog (if you don't already know/have it) or a "error" that you can't buy it (when you do already know/have it)
You can also look through your Gathering Log for the Lore areas you do not have (no gather-able items show for that area), then that tells you the ones you lack, without hitting up the merchant or if you don't have enough tokens.

On my end, unless I needed a specific one first, I just went down the list as I got enough tokens, and if I forgot where I left off, I just clicked through them until I got the purchase dialog.

[DPZ2]

If there isn't one, I'll second the need to set up a way, as well as a way to know exactly which "Master" recipe books you don't have to purchase a second time by mistake because you can't remember if you bought them before.

[Kirika-]

If there isn't one, I'll second the need to set up a way, as well as a way to know exactly which "Master" recipe books you don't have to purchase a second time by mistake because you can't remember if you bought them before.

It is already in place.
You can't purchase a second copy (any of the books) if you already learned from the book or have one in inventory, with one exception:
If you have an unlearned copy in your Chocobo Saddle bag, you can purchase a second copy accidentally (the same for anything that is flagged "Unique"), so never stow pre-purchased-before-you-can-use books (or non-tradable Unique items) in your Chocobo Saddlebag, because that by-passes the "unique item" safety that prevents you from buying or obtaining a duplicate.

[RiversideGuy]

Ah, leading the way Kirika... the Gathering Log! Thought I had done more, but it seems I only did Botany for Elpis... turns out the item I need is listed as being gatherable from there! I wonder if any specific item can be gathered in any of the 3 areas??? Otherwise I best be scrounging up a ton of white scrips!

[Kirika-]

Ah, leading the way Kirika... the Gathering Log! Thought I had done more, but it seems I only did Botany for Elpis... turns out the item I need is listed as being gatherable from there! I wonder if any specific item can be gathered in any of the 3 areas??? Otherwise I best be scrounging up a ton of white scrips!

Potent Spice (Botany) and Stonehard Water (Mining) are shared across each area.
The second item per job and area is not shared across areas.
For the gathering job Fishing, I do not know if there are any Folklore only fish that are shared across the areas.

[RiversideGuy]

Indeed it was Potent Spice I was looking for… on a mission to get mats to make Thavnarian Chia! Just bummed because I can make collectibles for the craftsman scrips with a much larger return than doing the gathering one… where I have to deal with timed nodes. Except for once a week with custom deliveries!

[RiversideGuy]

So how does this happen? I spent 1600 white scrips to buy the BTN tome for sea of stars... see chat dialog. BUT nothing got added to my Gathering Log... how can this be?

[Kirika-]

So how does this happen? I spent 1600 white scrips to buy the BTN tome for sea of stars... see chat dialog. BUT nothing got added to my Gathering Log... how can this be?

The Folklore tome in question has two items for Harvesting, but none for Logging
This is common early into an expansion, in that not all Folklore tomes have items per area for both types of gathering within one gathering job.
As in, Botany is Logging and Harvesting (using axe or scythe) and Mining is Mining and Quarrying (using pick axe or sledge hammer) and each of the four have different types of nodes.

As this expansion is expanded, as in more EW content added via patches, more items will start showing up in the Folklore gathering sections.
As you have already bought the book, when they add the new items and nodes, they will then populate in your Gathering log automatically.

[RiversideGuy]

Once again, ya came through in the clutch... although I could swear I HAD checked that combo and found nothing listed.