[3.5] Archivist

This is not a class that has sufficient abilities that go beyond level 9, and is thus going to stop here. Many of the abilities this class does get scales with character level, so taking another class afterward isn't going to suffer the multiclassing woes with it like you would experience with a regular spellcaster.

Archivist 

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind...*whack* 

Alignment: Because an archivist reads and understands any viewpoints, many are neutral. 
Races: Because of their need for books, races that congregate around densely populated regions tend to hold dominance as archivists. For reasons archivists liken to seeing a cow become a burger chef, illumian archivists are shunned by all other archivists. 
Starting Gold: Refer to Book (1d12) of Virgil’s Aeneid. Choose three random lines, total the number of vowels in those lines, and multiply it by the number of proper nouns that appear in those same lines. 
Staring Age: As a ghostwise Halfling fighter. 
Hit Die: d6 
Base Attack Bonus: Medium 
Saving Throws: Good Fortitude, Poor Reflex, Good Will 
Class Skills: The archivist’s class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Climb (Str), Concentration (Con), Decipher Script (Int), Knowledge (All) (Int), Profession (-), Search (Int), Sense Motive (Wis), Speak Language, Spellcraft (Int), Spot (Wis), Use Magic Device (Cha) 
Skill Points per Level: 4 + Intelligence bonus 
All of the following are class features of the archivist:

1. Speed Reading, Can’t Put it Down (Shillelagh), Thrill of Discovery, Lore, Paper Magic
2. Translator, Vox Imperium
3. Syllable of Power, Copy Protection
4. Enochian Binding
5. Can’t Put it Down (Brambles), Mightier than the Pen
6.
7. Can’t Put it Down (Spikes)
8. Symbolic Language
9. True Lore

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Archivists are proficient with all simple weapons. Archivists are proficient with light armor, but not with shields of any kind. 

Books Around the Globe: For purposes of mechanics, a full book is assumed to be 300 pages in length, taking the character 15 minutes to read. Spellbooks are special mechanics, where spell level counts as a full book for purposes of the archivist's book-activated abilities. As a result, a completely filled spellbook equates to 100 books. Because scrolls are condensed and leave out critical information, each whole spell counts as a book rather than each spell level. 

Speed Reading (Ex): Gained at 1st level. The archivist can read twenty times faster, including magical tomes to gain their benefits. For example, it only takes the archivist two and a half hours to read and gain the benefits of a manual of gainful exercise.

• Normal: The normal scholar can read one page per minute with full retention, which means it takes the scholar 5 hours to read a book and the archivist 15 minutes.

Can't Put It Down (Su): Gained at 1st level. Any book an archivist has read is wielded and treated as a club subject to the shillelagh spell. At level 5, it gains the additional effects ofbrambles. At level 7, it gains the effects of spikes. 

Thrill of Discovery: Gained at 1st level. Every time an archivist finishes reading a book he hasn't previously read, he gains a number of temporary hit points equal to four per class level. 

Lore: Gained at 1st level. An archivist gains Skill Focus as a bonus feat for any knowledge skill he has at least one rank in. An archivist with Knowledge (history) or (local) is considered to know local knowledge & history of any area with a library, once the archivist spends at a cumulative total of eight hours reading books from the library. 

Paper Magic: Gained at 1st level. The Archivist is considered to have every spell on their spell list for purposes of activating scrolls, both arcane and divine. 

Vox Imperium (Sp): Gained at 2nd level. The archivist has learned what words people will listen to, and can use command at will, the save DC being 10 + ½ character level + Intelligence modifier. 

Translator (Su): Gained at 2nd level. The archivist is considered to be under the constant effects of comprehend languages. 

Copy Protection (Sp): Gained at 3rd level. The archivist can inscribe a sepia snake sigil or illusory script in any book that they have read. 

Word of Power (Sp): Gained at 3rd level. The archivist can speak any power word they have the spell text of in their hand, so long as the spell level does not equal or exceed their class level. 

Enochian Binding (Sp): Gained at 4th level. The archivist is constantly surrounded by a magic circle of every alignment. With a touch attack, a creature failing a Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 level + Int mod) is entangled & anchored to their position for 1 hour. 

Greater Lore (Ex): Gained at 5th level. An archivist gains the ability to understand magic items, as with the identify spell. 

Mightier than the Pen (Sp): Gained at 5th level. The archivist can cast the glyph of warding on any book or scroll that they have read. The archivist and the warded object are immune to the effects of the spell. When using the spell glyph option, they can use any harmful spell of 3rd level or lower that they have on hand. The spell uses the archivist’s class level & Intelligence modifier as the caster level and spellcasting ability respectively. 
At level 12, this ability upgrades to greater glyph of warding. It is common to set the triggering condition to when a creature is struck by the book as a weapon. 

Symbolic Language (Sp): Gained at 8th level. The archivist can write any symbol they have read before whose spell level does not exceed their class level plus two. 

True Lore (Ex): Gained at 9th level. An archivist can use their immense knowledge to gain the effect of the analyze dweomer or legend lore spells. This ability can be used at-will.