This can be done in the tutorial, albeit with some reloading of the level.
Right when you load up the tutorial, skip it by pressing B when prompted. Then, head up the stairs and to the right and into the hut with pages sitting on the signs outside of it. Look into the chest and you'll find 31 pages. Turn off autosave, then save the game. Then, trade the pages with the villager behind the boxes for 1 emerald. (The chest used to have 60 pages that you could trade for two.)
Quit to the main menu, load up your save file, and you should spawn right in front of the villager with 31 pages. Turn off autosave again and repeat the process.