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Just saw someone say, in full seriousness, 'books and novels aren't historical records or materials'

...I got covered in an awful lot of leather-rot handling books (and novels, hello first-edition moby dick which i have touched with my own two hands) when I worked in an ARCHIVE, whose primary patrons of the reading-room were HISTORIANS there specifically to see, in many cases, BOOKS, for those materials to be, allegedly, '''''not historical records'''''

What, pray tell, do you consider an 'historical record' if not something recorded at the time?