diff --git a/client/index.html b/client/index.html
index 132dd78..d635c5f 100644
--- a/client/index.html
+++ b/client/index.html
@@ -87,13 +87,13 @@
       </label>
     </div>
     <div class="toolbar_right">
-    <div class="group" id="host_tools" hidden>
+    <div class="group" id="host_tools">
       <button id="new_page" type="button"
               data-help="Start a new blank page for everyone. The current page is kept in each notebook.">New</button>
       <button id="load_image" type="button"
               data-help="Put an image file, such as a scanned exercise, on the page for everyone: below the images already there, centred, at its own size. Rest the pen on an image to move it, or near a corner to scale it; it comes to the front. A tap of the eraser on an image removes it; writing on it stays.">Image</button>
       <button id="load_notebook_page" type="button"
-              data-help="Start a new page for everyone from a page kept in a notebook, with everything on it. The current page is kept in each notebook.">Notebooks</button>
+              data-help="Your notebooks and the pages kept in them, to look at or to delete. The host and co-hosts can start a new page for everyone from a kept page, with everything on it; the current page is then kept in each notebook.">Notebooks</button>
     </div>
     <div class="group" aria-label="Notebook">
       <select id="session_notebook" class="notebook_pick" aria-label="Current notebook"
diff --git a/client/js/chooser.js b/client/js/chooser.js
index 2136828..359f4d0 100644
--- a/client/js/chooser.js
+++ b/client/js/chooser.js
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
  * a Trash the entries are moved there, and the button says so;
  * in the browser they are gone for good, and the button says that.  The
  * notebook being written in cannot be marked: its mark explains.
+ * Everyone has the chooser (Andy, 2026-10-11), so that a guest can see
+ * and clear what their notebook holds, in a browser above all; loading
+ * a page into the session is for the host and co-hosts, and a card says
+ * so to anyone else.
  */
 
 import { discardNotebook, discardPage, listKeptPages, listNotebooks, readPage } from './notebook.js';
@@ -75,6 +79,8 @@ export class NotebookChooser {
     this.notebook = '';
     /** The notebook being written in, which cannot be deleted while it is. */
     this.writing = '';
+    /** Whether this participant may load a page into the session. */
+    this.mayLoad = true;
     /** Whether deletions go to a Trash (the local program's) or are for good. */
     this.trash = false;
     /** Counts openings, so that pictures fetched for an earlier one are dropped. */
@@ -99,10 +105,12 @@ export class NotebookChooser {
   /**
    * Show the notebooks, or the pages of the only notebook.
    * @param {string} [notebook]  Open on this notebook: the one being written in.
+   * @param {boolean} [mayLoad]  Whether a page may be loaded into the session.
    */
-  async open(notebook) {
+  async open(notebook, mayLoad = true) {
     this.opening += 1;
     this.writing = notebook ?? '';
+    this.mayLoad = mayLoad;
     this.clearMarks();
     this.dialog.showModal();
     element('chooser_message').textContent = '';
@@ -190,6 +198,10 @@ export class NotebookChooser {
       title.textContent = pageTitle(pageName);
       card.append(picture, title);
       card.addEventListener('click', async () => {
+        if (!this.mayLoad) {
+          this.say('Only the host and co-hosts can start a page for everyone from a kept page.');
+          return;
+        }
         const text = await readPage(notebook, pageName);
         if (text === null) return;
         this.dialog.close();
diff --git a/client/js/main.js b/client/js/main.js
index 0edf2fa..cffb10d 100644
--- a/client/js/main.js
+++ b/client/js/main.js
@@ -1053,7 +1053,10 @@ async function enterSession(invitationText, name, notebook) {
 
   // The host drives: the host starts new pages, and may let a guest do so.
   function showHostTools() {
-    element('host_tools').hidden = !session.mayMakePages();
+    // New and Image are the host's; Notebooks, in the same group so that
+    // nothing moves for the host, is everyone's (the chooser reserves
+    // loading).
+    for (const id of ['new_page', 'load_image']) element(id).hidden = !session.mayMakePages();
     // The Hide tool is for the host and co-hosts; losing the right
     // while it is chosen puts the pen back in hand.
     const hideTool = /** @type {HTMLElement} */ (document.querySelector('[data-tool=hide]'));
@@ -1095,7 +1098,7 @@ async function enterSession(invitationText, name, notebook) {
     // A deleted notebook leaves the toolbar's list.
     showNotebooks(sessionPicker).catch(() => {});
   });
-  element('load_notebook_page').addEventListener('click', () => { chooser.open(writer.notebook); });
+  element('load_notebook_page').addEventListener('click', () => { chooser.open(writer.notebook, session.mayMakePages()); });
 
   // Image files are chosen, and pictures of the page exported, through a
   // chooser of our own, which begins where the notebooks are.
diff --git a/client/js/tooltip.js b/client/js/tooltip.js
index 139ec12..a8c8e1e 100644
--- a/client/js/tooltip.js
+++ b/client/js/tooltip.js
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
  * are covered too, since the listeners are on the document.
  */
 
+import { trace } from './log.js';
+
 const DELAY_MS = 2000;
 const GAP_PX = 6;
 
@@ -55,6 +57,9 @@ function hide() {
 }
 
 export function enableTooltips() {
+  // Traced into the Session window's log (2026-10-11: Andy's Wacom pen
+  // hovering over a button on Hollis showed no tooltip, and the log is
+  // the way to see what the browser delivers for a hovering pen).
   document.addEventListener('pointerover', (event) => {
     const element = helpElement(event.target);
     if (!element) {
@@ -63,9 +68,17 @@ export function enableTooltips() {
     }
     if (element === shownFor) return;
     hide();
-    timer = setTimeout(() => { timer = null; show(element); }, DELAY_MS);
+    trace(`Hover: ${event.pointerType} over ${element.textContent?.trim() || element.id}`);
+    timer = setTimeout(() => {
+      timer = null;
+      trace(`Tooltip: ${element.textContent?.trim() || element.id}`);
+      show(element);
+    }, DELAY_MS);
+  });
+  document.addEventListener('pointerleave', (event) => {
+    if (timer !== null || shownFor) trace(`Hover: ${event.pointerType} left the document`);
+    hide();
   });
-  document.addEventListener('pointerleave', hide);
   // Focus that comes from a click brings no tooltip: the user is already
   // acting on the element, and a list it opens would be covered (Andy,
   // 2026-10-07, the notebook list).  Focus from the keyboard does.
diff --git a/docs/guest.md b/docs/guest.md
index 553b37e..704075d 100644
--- a/docs/guest.md
+++ b/docs/guest.md
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ place in it waits for the host to return.
 Across the top is the toolbar, one row holding everything in three
 groups: on the left the tools, their settings and **Undo**; in the
 middle the page and the view; on the right the host's page buttons,
-your notebook, and **Session**, which opens a window with the
-participants and the invitation.  Below it the page has the whole width of the window.  Every button
+**Notebooks**, your notebook, and **Session**, which opens a window with
+the participants and the invitation.  Below it the page has the whole width of the window.  Every button
 explains itself: rest the pointer on it for two seconds and its
 explanation appears beneath it.
 
@@ -216,6 +216,14 @@ mouse delivers.
 Every page of the session is saved for you, as it changes, without your
 doing anything.  Where it is saved depends on how you joined.
 
+**Notebooks** in the toolbar opens a chooser that shows your notebooks
+and small pictures of the pages kept in them, wherever they are kept.
+There you can delete pages and notebooks you no longer want: mark them
+with the × at their left, then press **Delete** twice.  In the browser
+a deleted page is gone for good; with the Kokkoja program it goes to the
+Trash.  Starting a page for everyone from a kept page is the host's
+business, and a co-host's.
+
 ### In the browser
 
 When you joined by opening the link, your notebook is kept inside the
@@ -300,13 +308,10 @@ right of your toolbar:
   size, centred, 5 mm below the image above or at the top of the page;
   one wider than the page widens it.  To put an image on a page of its
   own, press **New** first.
-* **Notebooks** starts a new page for everyone from a page kept in one of
-  your notebooks, with everything that was written on it.  A chooser
-  shows your notebooks and small pictures of their kept pages.  The kept
-  page itself is not changed: the session works on a copy.  The same
-  chooser deletes pages and notebooks of yours, marked with the × at
-  their left and then the **Delete** button, pressed twice; the host's part says
-  more.
+* **Notebooks**, which everyone has, now also starts a new page for
+  everyone from a page kept in one of your notebooks, with everything
+  that was written on it: choose the page in the chooser.  The kept page
+  itself is not changed: the session works on a copy.
 * **Hide**, among the tools, hides part of the page for everyone: drag
   open a rectangle and whatever lies under it, writing included, is
   covered in white, marked by blue corners so that nobody writes there
diff --git a/tests/test_end_to_end.py b/tests/test_end_to_end.py
index 5b8c56f..1427df2 100644
--- a/tests/test_end_to_end.py
+++ b/tests/test_end_to_end.py
@@ -851,11 +851,11 @@ class EndToEndTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
         # Allowed by the host, the guest puts an image on the page (the
         # file would come from the browser's own chooser).
-        self.assertTrue(firefox.run("return document.getElementById('host_tools').hidden;"))
+        self.assertTrue(firefox.run("return document.getElementById('new_page').hidden;"))
         firefox.switch_to(host_tab)
         self.assertEqual(firefox.run(TOGGLE_PERMISSION, "Guest"), "true")
         firefox.switch_to(guest_tab)
-        self.wait_until(lambda s: not firefox.run("return document.getElementById('host_tools').hidden;"),
+        self.wait_until(lambda s: not firefox.run("return document.getElementById('new_page').hidden;"),
                         "the guest to be allowed to start pages")
         firefox.run_until_done(LOAD_IMAGE, 300, 400, "png", 0, False)
         guest = self.wait_until(lambda s: s["image"] and s["image"]["ready"], "the guest's image")
@@ -1182,7 +1182,7 @@ class EndToEndTest(unittest.TestCase):
         # after the right is withdrawn, and cannot remove the host's.
         self.assertEqual(firefox.run(TOGGLE_PERMISSION, "Viewer"), "true")
         firefox.switch_to(guest_tab)
-        self.wait_until(lambda s: not firefox.run("return document.getElementById('host_tools').hidden;"),
+        self.wait_until(lambda s: not firefox.run("return document.getElementById('new_page').hidden;"),
                         "the viewer to be allowed")
         firefox.run_until_done(LOAD_IMAGE, 200, 100, "png", 0, False)
         added = self.wait_until(lambda s: len(s["images"]) == 3, "the viewer's image")
@@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ class EndToEndTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.wait_until(lambda s: len(s["images"]) == 3, "the viewer's image to reach the host")
         self.assertEqual(firefox.run(TOGGLE_PERMISSION, "Viewer"), "false")
         firefox.switch_to(guest_tab)
-        self.wait_until(lambda s: firefox.run("return document.getElementById('host_tools').hidden;"),
+        self.wait_until(lambda s: firefox.run("return document.getElementById('new_page').hidden;"),
                         "the right to be withdrawn")
         own = added["images"][2]
         firefox.run(ERASER_AT, own["x"] + 100, own["y"] + 50, 5)
@@ -1431,9 +1431,9 @@ class EndToEndTest(unittest.TestCase):
             "return document.getElementById('notice').textContent;"))
 
         # Only the host can start a new page.
-        self.assertTrue(firefox.run("return document.getElementById('host_tools').hidden;"))
+        self.assertTrue(firefox.run("return document.getElementById('new_page').hidden;"))
         firefox.switch_to(teacher_tab)
-        self.assertFalse(firefox.run("return document.getElementById('host_tools').hidden;"))
+        self.assertFalse(firefox.run("return document.getElementById('new_page').hidden;"))
 
         # The host starts a new page.  Everyone moves to it, and everyone's
         # old page is kept without anyone asking: the teacher's now, the
@@ -1963,12 +1963,12 @@ class EndToEndTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.enter_name("Student", "join_session")
         self.wait_until(lambda s: s["page"]["number"] == 2 and s["image"] and s["image"]["ready"],
                         "the student to reach the large image page")
-        self.assertTrue(firefox.run("return document.getElementById('host_tools').hidden;"))
+        self.assertTrue(firefox.run("return document.getElementById('new_page').hidden;"))
         firefox.switch_to(teacher_tab)
         self.assertEqual(firefox.run(TOGGLE_PERMISSION, "Student"), "true")
         firefox.switch_to(student_tab)
         self.wait_until(
-            lambda s: not firefox.run("return document.getElementById('host_tools').hidden;"),
+            lambda s: not firefox.run("return document.getElementById('new_page').hidden;"),
             "the student to be allowed to start pages")
         firefox.run_until_done(LOAD_IMAGE, 300, 400, "png", 0, True)
         student = self.wait_until(lambda s: s["page"]["number"] == 3, "the student's image page")
@@ -1981,7 +1981,7 @@ class EndToEndTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(firefox.run(TOGGLE_PERMISSION, "Student"), "false")
         firefox.switch_to(student_tab)
         self.wait_until(
-            lambda s: firefox.run("return document.getElementById('host_tools').hidden;"),
+            lambda s: firefox.run("return document.getElementById('new_page').hidden;"),
             "the student's permission to be withdrawn")
         firefox.run("window.kokkoja.session.newPage();")
         time.sleep(1)
@@ -2241,6 +2241,21 @@ class EndToEndTest(unittest.TestCase):
             return [...document.getElementById('session_notebook').options].map((o) => o.textContent);
         """), lambda names: "Other notebook" not in names, "the toolbar's list to lose the notebook")
         firefox.run("document.getElementById('chooser_close').click();")
+
+        # A guest has the chooser too, to look at and clear their own
+        # notebook; a card tells them that loading is the host's.
+        firefox.switch_to(student_tab)
+        number = self.state()["page"]["number"]
+        firefox.run("document.getElementById('load_notebook_page').click();")
+        self.wait_until_true(lambda: firefox.run("""
+            return document.querySelectorAll('#chooser_pages .page_card').length;
+        """), lambda n: n >= 1, "the student's chooser to list kept pages")
+        firefox.run("document.querySelector('#chooser_pages .page_card').click();")
+        self.assertIn("Only the host and co-hosts", firefox.run("return document.getElementById('chooser_message').textContent;"))
+        self.assertTrue(firefox.run("return document.getElementById('notebook_chooser').open;"))
+        self.assertEqual(self.state()["page"]["number"], number)
+        firefox.run("document.getElementById('chooser_close').click();")
+        firefox.switch_to(teacher_tab)
         # A page that its images have made longer than a sheet is first
         # shown at the scale at which one sheet fits the window.
         self.assertEqual(firefox.run(VIEW), long_view)