As you can see by the timelines here:
http://www.geek.com/games/everquest-...celift-549422/
staring at a spellbook under level 35 was necessary until 2002 (well after Velious release in 2000).
Since the client will not support blocking the screen with the book, what if the blind effect were applied to players under level 35 with meditate active?
Would it be possible to swap the UI elements so the spell book/spell gems were layered on top of the screen after blind (instead of blind covering them all)?
Alternatively, could all NPC/PC characters be made invisible (sent as invisible by the server etc.) if the blind fix would not work?