I guess the books are a slaved item, then. And sod, the site I got them from seems to be dead. (They were from Sims2play at http://sims-2.gameslife.ru/). Try putting these in your DL folder - do they still flash blue?
As for the pictures not showing up, I assume you mean the pictures in this post, yes? They show up fine for me, so it's not Tinypic. Could it be you once blocked something from Tinypic? I'll reupload them to another host when I'm home.