These two are still bugged as of this patch.
It's supposed to automatically opened and read accepting those quests right? What triggered them not being added? Did you close it too fast maybe?
EDIT: is this another grouped party bug? I do not know what you were doing at the time, so just throwing out ideas.
I have no idea. These are from the Reach so i am guessing i did these quests on the release date. I remember logging in on that day and doing these basic things. But i am not sure if i was grouped or not. In my alt characters i have these books.
The Reach has the most bugged books of any Zone.