Books do not fit on bookshelves

Osteos · January 2017

I was excited to copy some of Shalidor's library into books to put in my house. But many of them are too big for the shelves.

Also if you place a book and then want to move it you grab the bookshelf everytime instead of the book. That will become amazingly frustrating if you have already placed several books.

Gilvoth · January 2017

this for me is a Big Deal as it was in morrowind and appiers will now be in ESO.
for me, having a Library is very important and not only a hobby but a must have. and to think that the books cannot fit the shelves [same as was in morrowind] is just ...

Afafrenferr · January 2017

@ListerJMC ... uh-oh...

TerraDewBerry · January 2017

I understand your frustration, but you could in theory, either place your books on a flat shelf attached to the wall, or maybe build a bookcase out of planks if all else fails. You can also put them on tables, too with maybe nice book ends.

danno8 · January 2017

Just like real life.

My real life solution is to lay those ones flat and stack 'em like pancakes. They work like book ends!

Kids books are the worst for this.

Osteos · January 2017

After a bit more fiddling I was able to get the small books somewhat on the shelf and they are usuable but it seems much harder then it needs to be.

Also @Ahnastashia I know I can put them on sideways as shown but it isn't how I want books on a bookshelf

SirAndy · January 2017

Seriously @ZOS?

Recremen · January 2017

I can't help but feel like this is the exact problem which item scaling would fix. Though I guess that can be a bit of an intense coding process and is yet more data to store per item.

ListerJMC · January 2017

Afafrenferr wrote: »

@ListerJMC ... uh-oh...

@Afafrenferr yep, I tried putting the Eyevea books in a bookshelf to test and they didn't fit. I've been meaning to test the other ones but it looks like they don't fit either, it's worse than Oblivion book-placing... Tay's library is going to be a pile of books on the ground at this rate

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menedhyn · January 2017

This is disappointing. Messing around with book collections is something I was looking forward to doing with Homestead. Stacking them horizontally would be a clumsy solution. I don't mind stuff stacked on tables and on the floor, but surely bookshelves should function better than this?

TerraDewBerry · January 2017

Osteos wrote: »

After a bit more fiddling I was able to get the small books somewhat on the shelf and they are usuable but it seems much harder then it needs to be.

Also @Ahnastashia I know I can put them on sideways as shown but it isn't how I want books on a bookshelf

I hope this is something ZOS can work on and fix before release. I know a lot of people were excited about being able to collect, display and use their lore books.

BlazingDynamo · January 2017

I wish you could place your gold motif books on a shelf..

Betheny · January 2017

In the real world people don't design furniture without doing some research, you know like, checking how big books actually are before dividing up the shelf height...

Yuls · January 2017

Betheny wrote: »

In the real world people don't design furniture without doing some research, you know like, checking how big books actually are before dividing up the shelf height...

And yet somehow some of my books doesn't fit into my bookshelf. Could be because books doesn't exactly have all the same normed size. There are also some really small ones, which look absolutely ridiculous in my bookshelf. No idea what the designer was thinking when designing that shelf...

Betheny · January 2017

Yuls wrote: »

Betheny wrote: »

In the real world people don't design furniture without doing some research, you know like, checking how big books actually are before dividing up the shelf height...

And yet somehow some of my books doesn't fit into my bookshelf. Could be because books doesn't exactly have all the same normed size. There are also some really small ones, which look absolutely ridiculous in my bookshelf. No idea what the designer was thinking when designing that shelf...

It's quite normal for old bookshelves made of solid wood to have a tall top or bottom shelf. To deal with varying book height.

This should be a simple thing to fix.

menedhyn · January 2017

Betheny wrote:

It's quite normal for old bookshelves made of solid wood to have a tall top or bottom shelf. To deal with varying book height.

Exactly this. All mine are.

At the very least, a tweak to allow some of the other book sizes to be stored vertically would be a good thing, surely? How many different sizes do we have? How many books of each size do we have? What tweaks could we make to permit more (not necessarily all) of the books stand vertically, etc. etc.

Betheny · January 2017

menedhyn wrote: »

What tweaks could we make to permit more (not necessarily all) of the books stand vertically, etc. etc.

Adjust shelf height for top or bottom shelf (increase overall height if necessary)
Consider making some of the chunkier shelves a little thinner.

moonio · January 2017

From what I can see, those types of books are not designed to be stored upright, they are special books that must lay flat or open... think about all the lore books in the game..
If it has a buckle and lock on the front then its a special book, full of special things and should be on a table..

bebynnag · January 2017

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Osteos wrote: »

I was excited to copy some of Shalidor's library into books to put in my house. But many of them are too big for the shelves.

Also if you place a book and then want to move it you grab the bookshelf everytime instead of the book. That will become amazingly frustrating if you have already placed several books.

The bolded part part just sounds frustrating!

good job i plan on having a 'messy' library

BlackEar · January 2017

Slap please add a shelf / library for those of us who did all of the Eidetic Memory

altemriel · January 2017

lol

Silver_Strider · January 2017

I will have a maze of Bookcases, all empty and at the end of the maze will be a stack of books that don't fit in them

Rouven · January 2017

You could even put them in the fireplace. They are magical and won't burn.

Seriously though, hope that will be addressed. Got to be some woodworker out there able to make larger shelves.

How many books are there actually? With the item limit might not use the shelves anyways.

Taleof2Cities · January 2017

This is Uncle Sheo's bidding ... I just know it ...

Gedalya · January 2017

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

this for me is a Big Deal as it was in morrowind and appiers will now be in ESO.
for me, having a Library is very important and not only a hobby but a must have. and to think that the books cannot fit the shelves [same as was in morrowind] is just ...

Agreed; I am a hoarder in these games. In Skyrim I had numerous full book shelves.

Scraelos · February 2017

Omg, ZOS created bookcases which can't hold books. Just like topic starter described it. After some unsuccessfull tries I just put my books on regular shelves.
Or maybe I'm just doing something wrong?

clinkorz · February 2017

Has there been any change in this? I recently bought all the reprints and am now wishing I hadn't dropped 150k. They don't fit ;-;

Autolycus · February 2017

Wow that's super frustrating. Thanks for posting about it. I was just about to pick those books up myself but now I think I'll pass, at least until this is fixed. I tend to be incredibly ***-retentive when it comes to designing stuff like this.... and in all honesty, it's likely I would rage harder at this than I did in vMA.

Edit: Apparently a-n-a-l is a naughty word. Thanks ZOS. And here I thought this was a mature game.

Komma · February 2017

I bought them all as well. What a waste of gold. And if you think you would be able to stick them in your bank until something is done...nope...they will forever haunt your inventory until the time you say screw it and delete them all.

SydneyGrey · February 2017

Gedalya wrote: »

Agreed; I am a hoarder in these games. In Skyrim I had numerous full book shelves.

The Skyrim method of doing books was so much easier. I don't know why they didn't borrow the model they used in Skyrim. I mean, they're the same company who made Skyrim, after all.