Have you ever been annoyed when you find a great looking house mod, but then find that it includes EVERY book in the game?

Well, I was thinking of adding a new feature (or at least I think no one has brought this up) to a house/village that I might or might not end up making.

It's really simple actually...you take the script used in Vanilla houses when you by furniture, but apply it to Library "upgrades." So you start with an empty room, and then get in a few bookshelfs with some books, and you slowly expand your library. All the while spending more money on upgrading it.

If you apply this to all rooms in the House, then you will get a nice, customizable home for your player. Perhaps add a few quests or something, to give the player a feeling of "home" that might be different from the next person's house.

I was begining to include this in a mod I was making for myself, but ended up putting it aside so I can work on one or two other mods.

Anyways, tell me what you think!

~Stryder~

I prefer collecting the books myself rather than having them all instantly provided for me. There's far too many house mods that provide a little too much for my taste. Usually, I'm looking for something to spend more money on(as I usually have too much) rather than a house all fixed up.

So this is a yes, you like the idea? As for pricing, I am going to estimate the cost of added books, furniture, etc. and then add a service charge (for the library, other rooms would be different.)

hmmm. I wonder if THIS is possible:

Let's say you have a library. It's just bookshelves with no books. Perhaps a lectern can be set up with ONE book on it(this book would be larger in size than the usual). This book is a guide to books, all books, even the mod added ones. This book acts as a guide to where you can go to find/purchase the book missing. Once found and placed on your library shelves, the entry in the book becomes marked through, meaning you've obtained a copy. When a book is already on the shelf, and you try to put another copy of it, perhaps the "book of books" could glow red, or auto sort this copy into a chest.

Anyway, I don't know if this is possible..bear with me, I'm sleepy and I have to stay up for a while longer.

I'm a "book person" in real life I have well over a 1000 books, I'd hate to count them.. so any home my character lives in must have books. I decorated a mod-added house myself, because I had collected soo many books and they were in a chest which bothered me. Then I found Auto Book Placer and I've been happily adding my book collections. I have only seen two mod houses that added most of the valuable books, and I've downloaded about 30 house mods, so I'm wondering to myself, "is this really a problem"? - well for me it isn't, but you never know, so you do what you like!

I need to have filled bookshelves in my homes, though. I've also added several mods that add new books to the game so if your mod couldn't track the new books, it wouldn't work for me anyway.

Finally, on my list of Mods I intend to make some day is an "Author" mod, my character wants to retire and become an author, as of yesterday she has over 3 million gold septims. Non cheat. I have a plan for the mod, so I won't say anything else for now.

Shadowcran: Yes, I do believe this is possible, it would be, easy to make a script that "removes" the page, or edits it to say you have it, when you obtain the book. Putting it on the shelf, however, may be harder.

It could be done by simply making the original book, and then doing copies that remove the page, or edit it to say that "You have this book." It would take time obviously.

However, it might be possible to make a script that applies to all books, and edits it like you said, which would, therefore, include books from mods.

So it would take time to figure something out like that, put it is probably possible.

~Stryder~