When dropping a Book and than try to change only one Page with /entitydata @e[type=Item] {Item:{tag:{pages:[2:"\"hello\""]}}} , it deletes all Pages in the Book and writes on the first one : Hello
When dropping a Book and than try to change only one Page with /entitydata @e[type=Item] {Item:{tag:{pages:[2:"\"hello\""]}}} , it deletes all Pages in the Book and writes on the first one : Hello
That's an ability to empty lists, if you want to edit one, you have to specify all tags in that list