I think there may be something already in place similar to what you are thinking OP. Once you complete collections of lore books you are able to purchase them and put them in your house (in bookshelves, on tables, etc) Unless I’m totally in left field with what you are saying .

Not long ago there was a thing on Twitter or other social media asking if people in the Star Wars universe were literate, because the lack of reading material in the movies. I laughed because you know, Elder Scrolls got the books.

I loooooooooooved my library in my Skyrim house...until it got so full it began glitching out because Bethesda be like that. I had one Skyrim character that collected every book in the game. I even have the Bethesda-approved fan-distributed Kindle download of all the books in Skyrim and used to read through them at work (I was crazy into Skyrim, OK, stop laughing at my geekery).

And I loved that there were bookstores in Oblivion, even though there wasn't much to do there in way of acquiring readable or collectible books.

I love the continuity of the books in the game, even thought some are showing their age. And I like having readable books as furnishings, but I want more. I want bookshelves where you can place readable books on and have a proper library in your house. Because this ain't Star Wars, it's the Elder Scrolls and we be literate.

Thorgar wrote: »

I personally liked the idea where you could have all those books(lore junky here) which you can read and have in your house also,so what do you think would you like to see such a vendor added in ESO??

There already is a person you can buy books from... Mystic merchants... you can buy all the book collections from shalidors library but I get what you mean.

Thannazzar wrote: »

I'd rather the existing decoration unlocks for lore books were a row of books rather than x individual decorations.

You can buy those from the Crown Store instead.

Only if it's easier to level Mage Guild skill line.

that would be Awesome!
i love this idea!

I don’t recall Skyrim having bookstores but yeah, that would be a welcome addition. Come to think of it there is a building in Shornhelm called “Davon’s Books”, but I’ve never been inside.

??? You already can

nice idea.

Tyrobag wrote: »

??? You already can

Look at your journal and from there look at lorelibrary, then from there see if you have any of the shalidor's library completed, there is also lorebooks from clockwork city and the morrowind expansion that add lorebooks and there is also some other odd end lorebooks you can have/buy as furniture. From the shalidors library you can buy them from any and I mean ANY mystic merchant. Shalidor's library ones are some of the invisible achievement furniture in this game. Wish they would not make any sort of furniture invisible but red out till you get the prerequest for them.

Before Zeni decides to add book stores, I would rather see books not count as furniture items in the housing editor. Maybe it should have its own category (0/10,000 books). It would be fun if reading these books would level the mages guild skill line, but I guess that this was removed to create motif books for display only.

As other people have said you already can buy copies of lore books to put in your house. There aren't any book shops, but you can get them from the Mages Guild. But it would be nice to be able to buy all the books we can find, not just the lore books.

Even if my two favourite series - A Dance in Fire and The Wolf Queen - can't be in this game.

jssriot wrote: »

Not long ago there was a thing on Twitter or other social media asking if people in the Star Wars universe were literate, because the lack of reading material in the movies. I laughed because you know, Elder Scrolls got the books.

I loooooooooooved my library in my Skyrim house...until it got so full it began glitching out because Bethesda be like that. I had one Skyrim character that collected every book in the game. I even have the Bethesda-approved fan-distributed Kindle download of all the books in Skyrim and used to read through them at work (I was crazy into Skyrim, OK, stop laughing at my geekery).

And I loved that there were bookstores in Oblivion, even though there wasn't much to do there in way of acquiring readable or collectible books.

I love the continuity of the books in the game, even thought some are showing their age. And I like having readable books as furnishings, but I want more. I want bookshelves where you can place readable books on and have a proper library in your house. Because this ain't Star Wars, it's the Elder Scrolls and we be literate.

I know it's a bit off-topic but that Star Wars thing is based on a few misunderstandings. Movies generally try to avoid characters reading because if they show the text you can't see the characters reactions and if they don't show the text you don't know what's happening - unless they read it out loud and there's only so many times that makes sense. (This is why teens in modern shows will still call each other - and then only to arrange meeting up - instead of texting.)

That goes double when the writing uses a made up alphabet so (most) the viewers couldn't read it even if it was shown. Which adds another point - I suspect a lot of people miss a lot of the text in the movies because they're not familiar with the alphabet. Scrolling text on banners, or written around doorways, even on screens, is easy to mistake for decoration or pictures. And on top of that we rarely see the characters during 'down time' when they're be able to read for pleasure and if they were they'd just be looking at something like a Kindle or a screen built into a ship and it wouldn't be obvious what they were doing.

But if you look beyond the movies, especially in the books, there's numerous mentions of literature (both practical, and entertainment) and many more situations where characters read information as part of the story - because you can print it in a book and then the reader can follow along just as easily as if it was being spoken.

If there was ever an Elder Scrolls movie I can absolutely guarantee it would not include a scene where the hero gets to a city and spends a few hours reading all the books in the book shop. Or stops part-way through a dungeon to read and collect their enemies books. You might see bookshelves in the background in some scenes, or a character looking up from a book or a scroll when someone walks in, but that would be it and people who don't know the games could just as easily believe that only a few people in Tamriel can read or own books.

Whereas in the games Tamriel seems to go the other way - we see poor farm hands leaving written notes, or even performing rituals they've read in books in spite of an almost total absence of schools and a lifestyle which suggests they wouldn't be given many opportunities to learn to read and write when skills more directly related to their future work would be prioritised.