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I'm able to give a written book with nothing inside it:

This works! /give @p[c=1] minecraft:written_book 1 0 {title:"BOOK",author:"ME"}

But when I add text I get an unbalanced quote error:

This does not work! /give @p[c=1] minecraft:written_book 1 0 {title:"BOOK",author:"ME",pages:["{text:\"WORDZ\",color:black}"]}

In other words this part is wonky somehow:

pages:["{text:\"WORDZ\",color:black}"]

...but it all seems balanced to me. What am I missing/doing wrong?

This is for v1.10.2 BTW.

Thanks!

OK...this is starting to make me a bit crazy.

This worked:

/give @p minecraft:written_book 1 0 {title:"",author:"",pages:["{text:\"\",color:black}"]}

This worked:

/give @p minecraft:written_book 1 0 {title:"",author:"",pages:["{text:\"words\",color:black}"]}

This worked:

/give @p minecraft:written_book 1 0 {pages:["{text:\"1\"}","{text:\"2\"}"]}

This did NOT work:

/give @p minecraft:written_book 1 0 {title:"",author:"",pages:["{text:\"words\",color:black}","{text:\"more\",color:black}"]}

This did NOT work:

/give @p minecraft:written_book 1 0 {title:"",author:"",pages:["{text:\"words\"}","{text:\"more\"}"]}

This did NOT work:

/give @p minecraft:written_book 1 0 {pages:["{text:\"words\"}","{text:\"words\"]}

I'm at a bit of a loss here. It's as if there is some sort of limitation on the number of characters/tags before Minecraft spits out a "Data tag parsing failed: Unbalanced quotation" message.