How much time are we given to read books?

Davor · October 2016

When I play I am so use to not reading books anymore because I always think depending where I am, I can be attacked since time doesn't stop. So I am starting a new game and was thinking may be I should be spending more time reading books. Thing is when you know you can be attacked at any moment how can you read a book if you are going to be attacked then? Do we actually have time to read the book, do you get a "can't be attacked" or something when reading a book, or you looks out reading the fluff because you can be attacked and killed while reading a book?

Just like to know if I should try this or just keep playing like I did before. Also can we reread "Lore" books we have discovered? I thought we could but I can't figure out how if we can.

merovignub17_ESO · October 2016

It would be nice to have a "library" in collections where you could re-read books!

Oakmontowls_ESO · October 2016

Finish the mages guild quests and you can reread any books you find

Draven147 · October 2016

If you find a lore book you can go into the menus (I cant seem to recall where or which one at the moment) and read them whenever you like. All lore books are part of a series and the majority of them contain anywhere from 3-20 books in a series. I think if you go to the journal menu there should be a lore book section. It's in there somewhere.

Good luck and happy reading. Hope this helps.

menedhyn · October 2016

I sympathise with you about not having time to read books, notes, letters, or other written material. In previous games I enjoyed taking my time to stop and read them, or take them and read them later on, but it seems some locations - usually the ones with row upon row of shelves - spawn mobs close by. I know that some sites publish the text that you can refer to at a later date (the Imperial Library is a great site for that), but to be honest I much preferred reading them in-game. It's a huge disappointment if you ask me.

Khairiah · October 2016

I dont play video games to read books..

newtinmpls · October 2016

I sometimes hide to read them

nimander99 · October 2016

merovignub17_ESO wrote: »

It would be nice to have a "library" in collections where you could re-read books!

Yeah dood! They could call it Eidetic Memory and Shalidor's Lore Library... Whad'ya think? Good ide'er?

nimander99 · October 2016

Khairiah wrote: »

I dont play video games to read books..

Yeah, you just play to read quest dialogue, good person

Lucius_Aelius · October 2016

That's why I never stop to read books anymore (also because I'm usually busy with what I'm doing), just open them and back out so that they'll be in my Journal and I can go back to them later.

ZOS_DaryaK · October 2016

To read books you've collected in the game, open your journal and select Lore Library. You'll see the books you've collected grouped by topic, select the topic then the item you want to read.

tinythinker · October 2016

ZOS_DaryaK wrote: »

To read books you've collected in the game, open your journal and select Lore Library. You'll see the books you've collected grouped by topic, select the topic then the item you want to read.

Spoiler!

leeux · October 2016

Also, if PC, the Librarian [1] addon helps too... it allows you to keep track of what book you did read in full and which not

[1] http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info188-LibrarianBookManager.html

UrQuan · October 2016

Khairiah wrote: »

I dont play video games to read books..

You're missing out. One of the best things about Elder Scrolls games has always been the rich, interesting lore, and most of that comes in the form of in-game books.

Khairiah · October 2016

Book Club Online!! I wanna slay monsters.. not browse thru old dusty books..

ZOS_DaryaK · October 2016

Khairiah wrote: »

Book Club Online!! I wanna slay monsters.. not browse thru old dusty books..

I'll have you know that great care was taken to ensure only the appropriate amount of dust was applied and in the most artful way! You have no idea the trouble we had with the fire marshal when we had to burn some pages for the proper effect.

Khairiah · October 2016

Ill give you an "awesome" for that @ZOS_DaryaK

But im still not gonna read them.

dodgehopper_ESO · October 2016

Khairiah wrote: »

I dont play video games to read books..

You don't, but its a big part of the immersion into the Elder Scrolls World. For many of us, the experience of playing a game like TES is as much the enjoyment of a novel of a film or a tv series. In that sense the immersiveness of the world is important. If all you want to do is shoot guns or hack with swords, there are plenty of games that will shove you into the action and never stop shoving you into action. For a magical medievel-ish genre, check out Nosgoth, its a pretty cool game based on the Soul Reaver and Legacy of Kain series.

Khairiah · October 2016

dodgehopper_ESO wrote: »

Khairiah wrote: »

I dont play video games to read books..

You don't, but its a big part of the immersion into the Elder Scrolls World. For many of us, the experience of playing a game like TES is as much the enjoyment of a novel of a film or a tv series. In that sense the immersiveness of the world is important. If all you want to do is shoot guns or hack with swords, there are plenty of games that will shove you into the action and never stop shoving you into action. For a magical medievel-ish genre, check out Nosgoth, its a pretty cool game based on the Soul Reaver and Legacy of Kain series.

I love ESO.. I simply just dont read the books, thats all. I know some people are and thats totally fine.

Prof_Bawbag · October 2016

I can safely say the vast majority of people I've seen in-game and when the opportunity presents itself don't read the books. Just too much happening around you most of the times and it gets a bit wearing even killing the same group of enemies just because they've respawned and you need to pass them again. I suspect a lot of people don't even fully take in the conversations they're having with the quest givers. I know i rush through the dialogue and most other questers I've stumbled upon spend as much time listening to them as I do.

Whilst the books are 'kinda' on par, for some reason I find the interaction with the quest giving npcs both shallow and mundane compared to the proper TES games. The dialogue just seems gutted out. Even the interactions you have with the Daedric Princes is a complete let down. For example, take the Hermaeus Mora quest and compare that to the quest we got in vanilla Skyrim. There's zero depth to it at all. And you could argue Skyrim isn't exactly blessed with great depth in that particular area too.

jedtb16_ESO · October 2016

lore library...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP2ECkbi_UU

raidentenshu_ESO · October 2016

ZOS_DaryaK wrote: »

To read books you've collected in the game, open your journal and select Lore Library. You'll see the books you've collected grouped by topic, select the topic then the item you want to read.

Or go to https://www.imperial-library.info/