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It also describes how the bits of an informational reservoir can be traded for work using Heat Engines. Therefore, an indirect relation between the relative entropy and the informational bits is implied. From a different perspective, we define procedures to store information about the state of a physical system into a sequence of tagging qubits. Our labeling operations provide reversible ways of trading the relative entropy gained from the observation of a physical system for adequately initialized qubits, which are used to hold that information. After taking into account all the qubits involved, we reproduce the relations mentioned above between relative entropies of physical systems and the bits of information reservoirs. Some of them hold only under a restricted class of coding bases. The reason for it is that quantum states do not necessarily commute. 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