[PC/NA] Public Library - Tharnes And Noble

Lazy_Voyager

Made a public library on PC/NA containing over 400 readable volumes and counting. Due to each book taking a traditional slot, furnishings will be slim, but I have tried to mix form and function. The rare books room (beneath Mora's statue) will occasionally be updated with new finds. Enjoy your stay.

So why EVERY book in one build? That's a bit limiting, right? The purpose of this project is in part, obviously, to have every book accessible for reading.

More importantly, for anyone looking to collect specific books or start their own home libraries, most books ingame will not populate in their loot sources/tables unless you have already read them, either in the overworld or someone's house, to populate that character's Eidetic Memory. Being able to read any book at will knocks out the first tedious step of collecting a given book!

The Infinite Archive has a merchant in the lobby, Filer Ool, who sells 2 books every week for Fortunes; the pool changes every Tuesday morning. I will attempt to update the thread as it changes, occasionally bumping the thread if there are particularly ornate or rare books on the store.

Lazy_Voyager

May or may not be maintained actively depending on how updates go.

|H1:housing:104:@Sechesin|h[Tharnes and Noble]|h

[The above string can be pasted in ingame chat to make a clickable link to the house.]

Please note that the library is not my primary house; adding me as a friend will therefore not bypass the requirement to use the link. Also I'll probably ignore the request if I don't recognize you. 😅

Map and Directory:

New Additions!

• Havocrel: Strangers from Oblivion - Scrivener's Hall
• Letter From Zerith-Var - Companions

On sale this week (19NOV-26NOV) at Filer Ool, Infinite Archive Lobby:

• Havocrel: Strangers from Oblivion - Scrivener's Hall
• The Spotted Towers - Infinite Archive

18SEP2024 - There are, as far as I am aware, only 15 books left in the entire game that I am able to obtain through normal means, plus one that'd have to be at the mercy of ZoS (not happening). Just as well I'm having to delete lights and seating at this point, ha. Thanks to everyone who made this little project possible~ Sechesin

Current inventory: 512

Shalidor's Library 297/297
The Song of Pelinal 8/8

Achievement Furnishings: 64

• Sermons of Vivec 37/36
• Truth in Sequence 12/12
• Behold the Lunar Champion 3/4
• Look Upon their Nothing Eyes 5/5
• Companion Letters 5/6
• The Keeper's Oath
• How to Scribe

Luxury Vendor 1/?

• Velothi Podium of Recitation (Honored Ancestors) [Thanks, @M1shaan!]

Treasure Chest Books: 31/31

Coldharbour 4/4

• Journal of Tsona-Ei, Part One
• Journal of Tsona-Ei, Part Two
• Journal of Tsona-Ei, Part Three
• Journal of Tsona-Ei, Part Four

Wrothgar 4/4

• Birds of Wrothgar
• Orc Clans and Symbology
• Vorgrosh Rot-Tusk's Guide to Dirty Fighting
• Vosh Rakh

Hew's Bane 3/3 [Thanks again, @M1shaan!]

• The Red Curse, Volume 1
• The Red Curse, Volume 2
• The Red Curse, Volume 3

Gold Coast 4/4

• Cathedral Hiearchy
• On Minotaurs
• The Blade of Woe
• The Wolf And the Dragon

Clockwork City 4/4

• Engine of Expression
• The Blackfeather Court
• A Brief History of Ald Sotha
• Worshipping the Illogical

Summerset 4/4

• Artaeum Lost
• The Flight of the Gryphons
• The Truth of Minotaurs
• The Ubiquitous Sinking Isle

Northern Elsweyr 4/4

• Anequina and Pellitine: An Introduction
• On Those Who Know Baan Dar
• The Angry Alfiq: A Collection
• Trail and Tide

Southern Elsweyr 4/4

• Azurah's Crossing
• Khunzar-ri and the Lost Alfiq
• The Favored Daughter of Fadomai
• The Marriage of Moon and Tide

Bastion Nymic 5/5

• Deal With a Daedric Prince
• Doom of the Hushed
• Ode to Vaermina
• Peryite's Salvation
• The Legend of Fathom's Drift

Scrivener's Hall 17

• A Memory Book Part 1
• A Memory Book Part 2
• A Memory Book Part 3
• Apocrypha, Apocrypha
• Boethiah and her Avatars
• Daedra Dossier: The Titans
• Dream of a Thousand Dreamers
• Glorious Upheaval
• Havocrel: Strangers from Oblivion
• In Dreams We Awaken
• Invocation of Hircine
• Persistence of Daedric Veneration
• Stonefire Ritual Tome
• The Journal of Emperor Leovic
• The Waters of Oblivion
• Thwarting the Daedra: Dagon's Cult
• Tome of Daedric Portals

Infinite Archive 58

• A Brief History of House Telvanni
• A Feast Among the Dead, Chapter I
• A Feast Among the Dead, Chapter III
• A New Cult Arises
• Archmagister Mavon's Ascension
• A Report on the Dusksabers
• A Servant's Tale
• Beverages for the Bereaved
• Brave Little Scrib and the River Troll
• Captain Burwarah's Records
• Ciphers of the Eye
• Critter Dangers: Telvanni Peninsula
• Daedric Worship and the Dark Elves
• Denizens of Apocrypha
• Dusksaber Report
• Fanlyrion's Journal
• Fynboar the Resurrected
• Herma-Mora: The Woodland Man?
• History of Necrom: The City of the Dead
• House Telvanni Song
• How Rajhin Stole the Book that Knows
• Kynmarcher Strix's Journal
• Larydeilmo Is Sane
• Life in the Comonna Tong
• Malkhest's Journal
• Master of the Tides of Fate
• Materials for Novice Necromancers
• Mouth Vabdru's Journal
• Obscure Killers of the North
• On Cipher's Midden
• On Joining the Keepers of the Dead
• On The Nature of Nymics
• On Tracts Perilous
• Our Dunmer Heritage
• Our Puny allies
• Parables of Saint Vorys
• Plague Concocter's Instructions
• Planar Exploration Vol. 14: Darkreave Curatrors
• Ranks and Titles of House Telvanni
• Song of Fate
• The Currency of Secrets
• The Last Addition of Bikkus-Muz
• The Littlest Tomeshell
• The Prior's Fulcrum
• The Remnant Truth
• The Silver Rose Blooms over Borderwatch
• The Spotted Towers
• The Waiting Door
• Tidefall Cantos I
• Torvesard's Journal
• Uluscant's Manifesto
• Visitor's Guide: Telvanni Peninsula
• We Reject the Pact
• What About Glyphics?
• What's an Arcanist? Part 1
• What's an Arcanist? Part 2
• Working in the Infinite Panopticon

Crown Store 18

• A Guide to Dwemer Mega-Structures
• Cheeses of Tamriel
• Daedra Dossier: Cold-Flame Atronach
• Daedra Worship: The Ayleids
• Dibella's Mysteries and Revelations
• From Old Life to New
• Handbook for New Homeowners
• In Defense of Prince Hubalajad
• Prayer to the Furious One
• Rumors of the Spiral Skein
• The Cliff-Strider Song
• The Coldharbour Compact
• The Five Points of the Star
• The History of Zaan The Scalecaller
• The Law of Gears
• The Sharper Tongue: A Jel Primer
• The Way of Shadow
• The Witches of Hag Fen

Display Only 13

• Apocryphal Tome
• Dark Ledger
• Fable of the Indrik
• Fable of the Netch
• Fable of the Gryphon
• Fable of the Dragon
• Five Companions Tome
• Forged Black Book
• Infinite Tome
• Jel Parchment
• Litany of Blood
• Music Box - Unfathomable Knowledge
• Telvanni Mushroom Classification Book

*Display items cannot be read, but some are interactable in other ways.

Lazy_Voyager

Reading Shalidors Library books (lore books) will not count towards your Mage's Guild skill line; they're just here for quick reference.

However all other books count as Eidetic Memory entries for the purpose of populating loot tables in treasure map chests, infinite archive etc.

Pixiepumpkin

Thank you for the share. This is a pretty cool library. The screenshots do not do the library justice. Very nice in game and a ton of books to boot!!!

MageCatF4F

Nice. Although I probably would put a drop trap somewhere. I went there and read some books.

Is it worth mentioning that, for lazy cats, this is an EHT open house, Kelesan'Ruhn, and that EHT users can just put @Sechesin in the housing hub search window and go there? Or search under libraries?

Regardless, for some reason it appealed to me.

Lazy_Voyager

MageCatF4F wrote: »

Nice. Although I probably would put a drop trap somewhere. I went there and read some books.

Is it worth mentioning that, for lazy cats, this is an EHT open house, Kelesan'Ruhn, and that EHT users can just put @Sechesin in the housing hub search window and go there? Or search under libraries?

Regardless, for some reason it appealed to me.

I'm not sure what a drop-trap is :V
Also yeah it's an EHT house but I didn't know if plugging addons was appropriate here. I don't really know much about how EHT works at that.

Araneae6537

Ooh, this is cool, I’ll have to visit!
I had no idea there were books from treasure chests in these zones! I’ve never found one and I’ve opened many treasure chests in Northern Elsweyr.

M1SHAAN

This is such a cool idea! I love it. I don't know if it'll help, but someone on reddit claimed to have pulled a Hew's Bane treasure map out of one of Azandar's research portfolios.

Lazy_Voyager

Araneae6537 wrote: »

Ooh, this is cool, I’ll have to visit!
I had no idea there were books from treasure chests in these zones! I’ve never found one and I’ve opened many treasure chests in Northern Elsweyr.

The treasure chests pull their loot table from your eidetic memory; if you haven't read the book, they won't show up in the chests. Partially what the library is for heh.

EF321

Lazy_Voyager wrote: »

PS: However, if you happen to have a Hew's Bane treasure map, A: How? They stopped dropping years ago

They actually still do drop, I got one a couple of months ago. It came from Cyrodiil Gladiator daily coffer.
Needless to say, chances are slim. It is the only one I got out of ~1k coffers.
They do pop up on traders from time to time, camp TTC and you might get one.

dcrush

This is such a cool initiative. Will def send my main character over there to fill up eidetic memory. Would be easier if these new book drops weren’t bound.

DarcyMardin

I just visited, and wow, this is great! You did a fantastic job decorating. And there's nothing I like better than a library and being surrounded by books!

Cute name, too.

Lazy_Voyager

Thanks to M1shaan for donating a luxury vendor readable! Hadn't even thought to check there; somethin else to look out for.

Apparently there used to be another velothi table readable on the crown housing vendor but it was removed in 2018 for some reason and never re-added.

Also yoinked a couple more infinite archive books from the shop and will grab the New Life book off the crown store sometime soon.

Alphawolf01A

The treasure chest books. Are these from any chests in the zone or are they treasure map only?

Also, thank you for the list. I have been working on a library myself and I didn't know about the treasure chest books.
Much Appreciated!

Lazy_Voyager

Alphawolf01A wrote: »

The treasure chest books. Are these from any chests in the zone or are they treasure map only?

Also, thank you for the list. I have been working on a library myself and I didn't know about the treasure chest books.
Much Appreciated!

In my experience? Treasure map only. I farmed summerset overworld chests on circuit for 2 straight hours to see if it'd work and got not a single book. Treasure map chests however seem to have about a 1-in-3 chance of spawning a book with a preference for books you've not yet looted on that character, though your mileage may vary.

Books are only lootable from chests if they're registered in your Eidetic Memory, meaning you have interacted with them as an overworld obiect, a bookshelf spawn, or as a furnishing in someone's house. If you haven't read them on your current character, they just don't show up in the loot window at all.

M1SHAAN

Lazy_Voyager wrote: »

Thanks to M1shaan for donating a luxury vendor readable!

You're welcome! Thanks should also go to @dcam86b14_ESO for sending one to me in the gift exchange. When I saw the library didn't have one yet I knew I had to chase another one down to donate

dcam86b14_ESO

M1SHAAN wrote: »

Lazy_Voyager wrote: »

Thanks to M1shaan for donating a luxury vendor readable!

You're welcome! Thanks should also go to @dcam86b14_ESO for sending one to me in the gift exchange. When I saw the library didn't have one yet I knew I had to chase another one down to donate

I got tagged and was confused at first lol
after seeing the thread omg I am amazed. What a wonderful project.

Araneae6537

Lazy_Voyager wrote: »

PS:
This is strictly a non-profit venture; I'm kind of beyond the point of being able to throw gold at the game to get more books anyway. However, if you happen to have a Hew's Bane treasure map, A: How? They stopped dropping years ago, and B: they're the last treasure map books I'm missing from the series if you're willing to part with em.

Scrivener's Hall, Bastion Nymic and Archive runs would also help; I kind of struggle with Archive in particular and have less than 10% of the books there.

Lastly, reading Shalidors Library books (lore books) will not count towards your Mage's Guild skill line; they're just here for quick reference.
However all other books count as Eidetic Memory entries for the purpose of populating loot tables in treasure map chests, infinite archive etc.

I would be happy to help with any of these, although there are much more skilled players who could take you through the content faster, I enjoy Scrivener’s Hall, Bastion Nymic, and the Archive and would be happy to help you continue to expand your project, if I can. If you would like, send me a message here or in game (same name) and we’ll see if we can find a time we are both available.

Elvenheart

What a neat idea! I can’t wait to pay this library a visit!

Araneae6537

Does the link still work? I cannot get it to work for me now.

Reverb

This post needs more Awesomes.

Lazy_Voyager

Araneae6537 wrote: »

Does the link still work? I cannot get it to work for me now.

Are you on PC NA? It's platform-specific. Also make sure you copy the string in the second post (highlight, ctrl+c), paste it in ingame chat (say-chat so you don't spam a guild). If the link parses in brackets, you did it right.



Lastly, this isn't my primary house, so if you're traveling to my primary it won't work.

Araneae6537

Lazy_Voyager wrote: »

Araneae6537 wrote: »

Does the link still work? I cannot get it to work for me now.

Are you on PC NA? It's platform-specific. Also make sure you copy the string in the second post (highlight, ctrl+c), paste it in ingame chat (say-chat so you don't spam a guild). If the link parses in brackets, you did it right.



Lastly, this isn't my primary house, so if you're traveling to my primary it won't work.

I found the problem! It was not showing properly on my phone, with the last few characters cut off and I didn’t realize more than a closing bracket was needed! Doh! Sorry, I seem to have had brain fog issues the past week or so.

EF321

EF321 wrote: »

Lazy_Voyager wrote: »

PS: However, if you happen to have a Hew's Bane treasure map, A: How? They stopped dropping years ago

They actually still do drop, I got one a couple of months ago. It came from Cyrodiil Gladiator daily coffer.
Needless to say, chances are slim. It is the only one I got out of ~1k coffers.
They do pop up on traders from time to time, camp TTC and you might get one.

Heh

Lazy_Voyager

EF321 wrote: »

Heh

Yeeeeeah let me just save up for that lmao.

Screw it, I'll wait til the maps show up on the archive store.

Pixiepumpkin

Ya.....that needs some attention by ZOS. No map in game should demand that kind of gold.

Lazy_Voyager

Given the maps have about a 1/3 drop chance for books and the drops aren't 100% curated, you'd be spending around 180mil-360mil (with decent luck) at those prices. ...and 10 mil is the most I have ever owned.

Would definitely recommend saving archive points and waiting for the maps to hit filer ool's store if you're after these, at least until ZoS acknowledges there's a problem with the loot tables.

tsaescishoeshiner

I just wanted to share this checklist someone made of all these Scrivener's Hall/treasure map/Archive books that only drop if you've read them first:

Ayalockheart wrote: »

For what is worth, I have made a Necrom / Scribes / Secrets Book Checklist - See google sheets link below

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IiMk3MKzyxADQhSg12pxAinOZ3fbmsgBr4f0krof8nY/edit?usp=sharing

Love the library by the way, and I've been using it* to workaround the fact that my PvE characters aren't questers and haven't read every book! Much appreciated. I hope in the future that this isn't necessary to get these drops on each character.

Araneae6537

It looks like the upcoming event (Guilds and Glory) will provide an opportunity for Hew’s Bane maps!

Thank you so much for regularly updating your collection! I’d still be spending all my in-game time clicking on bookshelves trying to find “Waters of Oblivion” otherwise!

ZOS_Kevin

Honestly, this is so incredible! Thanks for sharing your creation! Bonus points for the name.

Lazy_Voyager

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Honestly, this is so incredible! Thanks for sharing your creation! Bonus points for the name.

Th-thanks, you too. 😅

Araneae6537 wrote: »

It looks like the upcoming event (Guilds and Glory) will provide an opportunity for Hew’s Bane maps!

One can hope; still moving ahead with my plan of 'beg everyone I know for Archive runs in case the maps land on Filer Ool's desk.'

Thank you so much for regularly updating your collection! I’d still be spending all my in-game time clicking on bookshelves trying to find “Waters of Oblivion” still otherwise!

Ya. Probably going to add a section in the OP for 'newest additions' and their sections. Making a point to try and buy each book off of the Filer, though there's about three I don't have access to via Eidetic yet (Fynboar is going to especially be hard because Archive runs are required to find its missing pages).

...also I fixed two mistakes. Can't believe I counted Trials of Eyevea twice and forgot the Coldharbour treasure map journals. They're both 4 books each so the exact number stayed the same but yeesh.