So I can't believe I hadn't seen this before, but snapple actually wrote a really great attribute theft story that you just have to read.
https://snapplepapple.blogspot.com/p...n-learned.html
the basic premise behind the story is Katy, our protagonist has a special ability. Kind of like how MaxAP used this way in some of his past stories on stealing knowledge. She can enter the "Library" Of anyone, as long as they were within a certain distance. She can then "check out" books from these libraries to add to her own, or she can "donate" some of her own books to the persons library. What's added to this somewhat, is that each library has a librarian that looks exactly like the libraries owner with some of there more discerning personality traits. What this eventually leads into is the discovery of the Museum, and it's Curator. But everything changes when Katy finds out, there's someone else out there, who can do the same things she can. Not only that, but who ever it is, is up to no good.