Book 'Em

Version 2. 0 Out Now!!

Now with more options and fewer bugs

Book 'Em is an evolution of my (now obsolete) Something About Books mod.  What's the difference, you ask?  Compatibility.  Through the magic of SKSE plugins I was able to recreate the mod without making any edits to vanilla assets.  Therefore, "Book 'Em" should be compatible with most mods that add books and spell tomes.  I have tested with a few mods such as Book Covers Skyrim, Lost Library, Legacy of the Dragonborn, Apocalypse - Magic of Skyrim and SXP (Redone)).

Many of you may notice that many of the features of Book 'Em are similar to other mods.  This is true.  I drew much of my inspiration from other book mods such as Unread Books Glow, Reading Is Good and Don't Eat Spell Tomes, and decided to create my own version which combines all those features I loved, added some ideas of my own along with a few features suggested by others.  Many thanks to Parapets for allowing me to use the plugins from Reading Is Good and Don't Eat Spell Tomes.  If you choose to install Book 'Em, do not use those other mods as they will most likely conflict.

Book 'Em requires Skyrim v1. 6.+

What are books?

As far as the game is concerned, books are anything that can be read.  Notes, recipes, journals, common books, skill books, spell tomes and even elder scrolls are all book objects.  This mod is designed to only effect common books, skill books and spell tomes.  Most notes, journals, letters and logs are filtered out by ignoring anything that does not have a weight of 1. 0.  Where that fails, I look for book that contains those words in its name.  Even so, there may be some journals that are treated as common books, or some books that are ignored as journals, but these should be minimal.

Mods that change book weights or names will prevent Book 'Em from working correctly.

Read or pick up?

One of the most annoying things about books you encounter in Skyrim is that you are force to read them before you can take them.  I don't know about you, but if I'm crawling through a cold, dark, draugr infested dungeon, the last thing I'm going to want to do is stop to read "The Lusty Argonian Maid".  Spell tomes are the exception because you can't actually read them.  Through the MCM you can choose your default behavior when you click to activate a book.  Holding the left shift key while activating will perform the opposite behavior.  For example, if your default behavior is to pick up books, then holding the left shift while activating will cause you to read the book.  Note, this does not change the on-screen prompt.  Disabling this feature also disables book glow.