I could have sworn Runebooks were stealable if they were inside a a container insider the players inventory. Clearly they are not. Input and responses to correct or confirm this please.
The bag is stealable. The runebooks themselves not directly, only via indirect steals (which only work in the main bag of players).
In case the Player would have been afk, you could have tried to decrease the weight of the bag until it becomes stealable.
I thought if you did a random steal and it targeted a blessed or newbied item it would say something like "You can't steal that" ?
Oh yeah, it was late when I wrote that answer: Blessed runebooks aren't stealable, not directly and not indirectly, because they are blessed. Same for newbied items. Only 0 weight items (like normal unblessed runebooks) can be stolen indirectly from the main bag. Any item can be stolen though when in a container, as long as the container can be stolen (weight limit).