Read Skyrim's Myriad Texts On Your eReader

Post by Steve Farrelly @ 03:32pm 29/11/11 | 9 Comments

I actually brought this up with the Aussie branch of Bethesda today, just because I thought it would be a good idea, but someone else has been even more resourceful; skipping the middle Bethesda person, and created an EPUB and MOBI file of all the books in Skyrim.

So, I took a look at how Skyrim actually stores these nuggets of incidental storytelling. By the 9, it was in plain text! I pasted the book text into separate docs, slapped on headings, created a table of contents and a cover, and just like that, I can read my copy of The Lusty Argonian Maid on-the-go!

To grab them, just click here. We're not sure what the legalities are involved in this, so it could be worth snapping them up now, while you can.

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demon
Posted 03:45pm 29/11/11

lol i _never_ read the books in skyrim :p when i see books i mouse-over them & if they are over 50gp in value i will look at the first page to see if i get a lvl up n then take it for selling. if it's under 50gp i never even look at it.

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Steve Farrelly
Posted 03:51pm 29/11/11

I've read a few of them and they're actually really cool. Apparently some can even lead to hidden treasures without starting an active quest or the like

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Nerfy
Posted 03:51pm 29/11/11

I collected perhaps every single book and stashed them away in a chest and a few bookcases... But only read a few. Collected tons in oblivion too. In morrowind I actually did read most of them, and some of them were pretty awesome (the real berenz...haih, or whatever, I thought was great, but my standards may have changed since all those years ago..).

That being said, if you don't read books in skyrim, there's almost no way to understand wtf's going on with the empire/thalmore/blades/etc. Definitely gotta read the rise and fall of the blades, and The Great War I think the other was.

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Steve Farrelly
Posted 03:58pm 29/11/11

I got it and am browsing it on my iPad, he didn't really create a Table of Contents or anything, so it's like 2000+ pages of randomly compiled books. I s'pose on a few of them have multiple volumes, but kind of annoying. Maybe Bethesda will make an official ibook or app...

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d^
Posted 03:59pm 29/11/11

for only $5.99

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Mosfxx
Posted 04:34pm 29/11/11

Wow Nerfy hardcore, I downloaded and will upload to my Kindle tonight to read, better then reading them in game.

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natslovR
Posted 06:27pm 29/11/11

How is this not a copyright violation?

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Superform
Posted 07:08pm 29/11/11

its for ppl who have the game .. but yeah.. copyright shmoppyright

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Grundar
Posted 11:33pm 29/11/11

I stop and read every book I get my hands on, have them all arranged as well, by volume, not by date.. yet >_>

Its fun to re-read all those books from Morrowind and Oblivion, nice to read new ones as well, especially those that deal with the interim between Oblivion and Skyrim (as it was between Morrowind and Oblivion). There is a hell of a lot of books that really flesh out why there is festering Rebellion and trouble across Tamriel and you can do yourself a massive favour by reading them - in terms of really fleshing out the story, locations, people etc.. It's nice to see that some books also drop hints at areas that have hidden treasure, locations etc..

If Bethesda release an official e-read type of thing for out of game reading it would be great to have a casual browse of during your down times. Not sure if I would like to eye-bleed through 2k+ pages of text to read the book I haven't read yet :P

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