Placing Books in Homes

Easily_Lost

This may be a silly question. Is there a easier way to place books in your homes, other than one at a time?
I just earned one set, only ten books. So I bought the book pack from the Mages Guild. I had to unpack it and ended up placing all 10 books separately. It would be insane to have to place the large packs ( 50 - 120 or so ) , also it use up a lot of spaces.

twev

Actually, being able to place books that we've learned, by reading bookshelves in game, into bookshelves in a 'house' would be a cool thing to implement.

It's bad enough that we can't loot things like candles to place into our houses, but I'd sure like to loot the books I learned while adventuring.

I completely agree that the current placement mechanic is suxor, and should have an automatic autoalign option for those that dont want to custom place things like that one-ata-time.

Farscape76

If there is an easier way OP I haven't found it yet either.

Ahzek

The only "easier" way is to get bookshelves that are already filled with books. These only exist for a few styles ( i know redguard and hlaalu for sure) and are generally epic quality.

PrinceShroob

You can purchase stacks of books from the Crown store for about 25 Crowns apiece.

Magdalina

Just wait til you get to putting them into bookcases and realize they get stuck and become unreadable there and only way to avoid that is to spend like 5 minutes carefully arranging each book so it's still inside the bookcase but sticking out ever so slightly so it's not stuck...

Tasear

I noticed it's easier to place them laying flat or stacking on each other in spaces or on tables.

Hallothiel

Tasear wrote: »

I noticed it's easier to place them laying flat or stacking on each other in spaces or on tables.

Yep. Can't actually put stacks of books on the shelves properly at all. So have them stacked on floor or desks......

OmniDo

They did make a change so that books can be placed with the surface drag feature enabled, more easily on shelves.
You can also select the stacks of books and/or objects to pull them "off" without having to remove the whole shelf first.

That said, I'd like ALL of the books I read in the Eidetic memory collection to be available for display in my homes.
There are quite a few great books on Vampire Lore; Immortal Blood parts 1 and 2 for example that cannot be placed as readable items.

Only the books in Shalidors Library can be purchased as a set from the vendor and individually placed.

Ilsabet

hagermanj wrote: »

It would be insane to have to place the large packs ( 50 - 120 or so ) , also it use up a lot of spaces.

If it makes you feel better, since the book packs are based on Shalidor's Library and not Eidetic Memory, you'll only get ~10 books per pack (or 4 for the Eyevea set).

Of course, as I discovered this weekend, when you only want one or two books apiece from multiple sets, then the clutter can add up pretty quick. In that case you can either remove only the book(s) you want rather than retrieving all of them, in which case you still have the bound container in that character's inventory forever, or (what I did) use a spare apartment or small house to just stash all of the extra books to get them out of the way.

I didn't have too much trouble placing my books on a regular wall shelf. I already knew that the bookcases were trouble so I didn't even bother. If you only have a few books you want to display that's what I recommend.

cyclonus11

I put wood planks along the wall and use them as makeshift bookshelves instead of real bookshelves, since the real ones don't work.

MornaBaine

cyclonus11 wrote: »

I put wood planks along the wall and use them as makeshift bookshelves instead of real bookshelves, since the real ones don't work.

That's kind of brilliant. Now I want to try it out and see how it looks!

redshirt_49

I have a copy of the Lusty Argonian Maid on my nightstand. I'm happy.

Cpt_Teemo

They'res also full bookcase recipes that have like tons of books / pots all built into one item as well, like 60 items in one almost

wenchmore420b14_ESO

They did fix the book shelf issue with Morrowind release, so at least you can place them and be readable now, BUT, I have had to take out so many books to make room for other things that I only have a few left!! ARGGGGGG!
I got the Ebon Chateau for a guild hall. Thought how cool it would be to have the whole Shalidors Library for guildies to be a able to read.
Thats 297 books = 297 slots, plus 16-19 book cases to hold them, PLUS, NOW, 36 Lessons of Vivic = 333 books + Cheeses of Tamriel and one other readable book you can aquire = 335 readable books plus 25+/- book cases = 358 SLOTS!!!!!
Thats more space than most houses have!

Book Lovers Unite!!!
More Housing Space!!!
Huzzah!!!!

TheShadowScout

I still think they ought to make bookcases with an "inventory" feature where you can place readable books (and other bookshelfable items such as skulls or scrolls) inside, and they will be placed as once object, with multiple books clickable and readable...

Magdalina

Hallothiel wrote: »

Tasear wrote: »

I noticed it's easier to place them laying flat or stacking on each other in spaces or on tables.

Yep. Can't actually put stacks of books on the shelves properly at all. So have them stacked on floor or desks......

You can actually, I'll show screenie later. At least some of the smaller books(different collections have different covers and differ in size as well) fit inside Breton bookcase just fine, won't bet on others.

Other solution is shelves.

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

They did fix the book shelf issue with Morrowind release, so at least you can place them and be readable now

Last I checked they did not.

Gargath

MornaBaine wrote: »

cyclonus11 wrote: »

I put wood planks along the wall and use them as makeshift bookshelves instead of real bookshelves, since the real ones don't work.

That's kind of brilliant. Now I want to try it out and see how it looks!

Try it yes and see how it looks

twev

redshirt_49 wrote: »

I have a copy of the Lusty Argonian Maid on my nightstand. I'm happy.

I got to the part where she shed her skin, and had to quit reading.

GreyWolf_79

They need to incorporate the system they had in Skyrim: Hearthfire, where you could actually place readable books on a bookshelf and they would line themselves up neatly.

OmniDo

MornaBaine wrote: »

Ugh...for immersion sake, reading those would be impossible unelss you plan to play Jenga with each book stack.
This on the other hand makes more sense:

To stack books perfectly on a shelf requires an Addon, since the in-game control systems are spotty at best.
The addon which allows precise placement and orientation of objects is here.

lasertooth

I second the idea using long planks as shelves. Works well. I also just litter my books around everywhere, like a library.

lasertooth

Here is my mistveil manor, where I also used planks as book shelves.

S1ipperyJim

GreyWolf_79 wrote: »

They need to incorporate the system they had in Skyrim: Hearthfire, where you could actually place readable books on a bookshelf and they would line themselves up neatly.

I would have been happy if they replaced Homestead with the Hearthfire system instead. Chests for storage, armour mannequins, bookshelves that work intuitively, in house bards and assistant NPCs, animals and fish for farming, module based custom building from scratch, ability to sleep in beds, children and NPC wives, random NPC and beast (like skeever) attacks, weapon display cases, a house wayshrine (cart) sooo much great stuff that made sense, almost none of it implemented in homestead

elijafire

Have you guys tried enabling collision detection?

MLGProPlayer

I just use the filled bookcase furnishings.

They are:

Redguard bookcase, full
Redguard bookcase, piled
Hlaalu bookcase, orderly

wenchmore420b14_ESO

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

I just use the filled bookcase furnishings.

They are:

Redguard bookcase, full
Redguard bookcase, piled
Hlaalu bookcase, orderly

The OP was talking about the Interactive books, like the Shalidors Library from the Mages Mystic that you can read.
There is , or was, a issue of placing them on shelves and still be able to read them.

FloppyTouch

I gave up and threw them all over the floor

wenchmore420b14_ESO

FloppyTouch wrote: »

I gave up and threw them all over the floor

LMAO!!^^^^ Me too!!!!!!!

THWIP71

All of my books are sitting in a basket next to my chamber pot.

Flameheart

Book placing into shelves depends heavily on the type of shelves you use. While my Dunmeri shelves seem to fit for the book size I encountered yet (so that I was able to stack them side by side and upright into the shelf) other shelves I heard were to low so that the books seem to collide with the shelf itself.

Overall I can say, that placing books into shelves is a pretty tedious and time consuming thing...what would I give for the good old Skyrim book shelf menu option...