Shelf Control (OpenMW)

Formerly known as "No Money, No Books".

I rarely buy books in shops unless it's for a quest. And Jobasha? He has way too many skill books just sitting there, waiting. That's 1275 gold (mercantile tax not included) you're robbing from him.

Also - you wouldn't appreciate it if a stranger barged into your home, grabbed a book off the shelf, and sat there for hours reading it. Let's change it.

Features

Shops Are Not Libraries

In bookshops, you actually need to buy books before reading them.

A book is considered buyable if:

• []It has a living NPC owner (unloaded NPCs don't count)[/]

  []The owner sells books[/]

By default, the only way to read a buyable book is to purchase it, but you can enable an additional disposition check in the settings. If your disposition with the bookseller is high enough, they may allow you to read it.

Other People's Homes Are Not Libraries

Regular folks won't charge you, but they also won't let you touch their personal shelves. Maybe if you befriend them, they'll be less restrictive?

A book is considered owned if:

• []It has a living NPC owner (unloaded NPCs don't count)

  []It becomes readable if the owner's disposition is high enough (configurable, 80 by default)[/]

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[]OR it is faction-owned and someone from that faction is nearby

• []It becomes readable only when your rank is high enough for the faction to treat its items as free for you (vanilla behavior, unchanged)[/]

  []Books owned by Temple and Imperial Cult are free to read. All PT factions are supported too.[/]

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Libraries Might Actually Be Libraries

It wouldn't make sense if you couldn't read in places designed for reading. These include:

• []Libraries - cell name contains

  library[/]

  []Temples - cell name contains

  temple[/]

  []Imperial cult shrines, chapels, etc.

  []Cell name contains

  shrine[/]

  []OR the cell has an Imperial shrine (any activator with the

  shrineimperial script) and the book is owned by an Imperial Cult member or a

  Priest-class NPC[/]

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Context-sensitive In-Game Messages

Vendors will yell at you!

You will question your actions!

Ordinators will call you scum - for a reason this time!

And much more...

Requirements

You need to play in one of the supported languages:

• []English[/]

If you want to add support for more languages, you only need to translate the