The Elder Scrolls: Book Collection
Pulled from the R#d%t archives. Lightly revised.
Download Link (V.0.51) [EPUB file] (minor formatting/transcription corrections and proper image credits added)
Hey guys,
I've just spent the last 3 days creating The Elder Scrolls: Book Collection, a compilation of almost all in-game literature the Elder Scrolls has to offer.
This is V0.5 and is not fully finished yet due to the fact that ESO adds a whopping 2600+ books to the TES. This is a one-man job, folks - and it took me 3 days of obsessive hours almost literally nonstop to just add the literature from Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim.
ESO literature is being added slowly and steadily, but at 2600+ books, it will definitely take a while to reach V1.0.
So why the early release?
Well to be completely honest - I'm just excited to show this to you guys :) And more to the point, there is so (so, so, so, so) much content in the current V0.5, that nobody will ever finish all of it before the next release anyway probably.
The vast majority of literature is already included, so I've decided to release it early.
What sets this apart from other TES book compilations?
Good question! There are already dozens of similar projects that do the same thing - why torture myself with creating yet another?
- The formatting
This is by far the biggest noticeable feature that sets this apart. I was not happy with the formatting of most of the currently existing compilations. The only compilations with formatting I found good were Stories of Nirn (which is only available in German), and Project Dovahkiin Gutenberg (which currently seems to be dead and only includes the books pre-Skyrim in individual collections)
The Elder Scrolls: Book Collection is lovingly formatted to include Morrowind-style headlines (Magic Font), includes ALL relevant images from certain books (including daedric, dwemer, dragon language writings etc), and is not a simple copy-paste work of texts like many I've seen.
- The literature selection
The second noticeable thing is most other compilations include ALL literature in The Elder Scrolls - and this means ALL literature. Including meaningless notes like house deeds, or ""meet me at [location]"" notes that are meant to further a certain quest.
I've attempted to discard these things. I wanted to include only literature that is significant in some way. This means that a lot (but not all) of journals, letters, notes etc have been excluded.
Anyway, that's really all I have to say on the matter. Everything else is said in the Foreword of the book.
So yeah - hope at least some of you appreciate and enjoy this!
- Morrowindnostalgia