Meditate and the open book
 

Do you need to have your spell book open to take advantage of the meditate skill?

Yes until lvl 35. Then no longer.

That went away awhile back. You no longer need to press the meditate button

Just sit and you'll meditate automatically

I believe you need the book open until 35 don't you? Or did that go away too?

That was patched out several months ago, now. Only need to sit, regardless of level. Easy way to check:
1. Be under level 35 with at least 1 point in meditate.
2. Sit down.
3. See your Meditate skill go up.

I am searching and I see nothing saying it was patched out. So Will have to test it I guess. But I'm pretty sure my wife new shaman whos lvl 11? If she doesn't sit and med with book she's gains mana sooo slow. <--teaching her how to play. And already a lot of time she forgets this. And isn't regening mana nearly as fast.

Your last post indicated 2 considerations which are separate: "... sit and med with book..."
Even though using the Meditate button in the book isn't required, yeah, you still gotta sit. So, a) does your wife's shaman have the Meditate skill trained (level 8 for priests, if you trained early because the training window has an error in it, then you didn't really train), and b) is the slow mana regen because she's just standing and waiting on the mana bar to refill?

False you can sit without the book open the level you train it and get skill ups.

Yup it was patched out. Anyone of any level can meditate just by sitting, provided you have put at least 1 point into the meditate skill at your guild master. Meditate raises extremely fast, you'll notice every time you gain a new level, you max out your meditation basically the first time you sit down to med.

You haven't needed the book to med since the kunark dragons were added.