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Replaces all the excerpts from in-game books with short stories, gives you new books to collect, and redistributes them in a more logical manner.

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Version 1.1.5
- Shortened a bunch of descriptions to fit the inventory and pickup UI a little better
- Cora can now Journey to the Center of the Earth if Venpi wants her to
Version 1.1.4
- No functionality change
- Removed 151 Identical to Master (ITM) records for better compatibility
Version 1.1.3
- Most books now have a brief summary along with the name and value when hovering over them. (A scaled down version of what you'd read on the back cover of real books)
- Added 13 new modern fictional books inspired by some popular movie plots and 2 new humor books to common leveled lists and bookstores
- Forwarded a few more missed Unknown 17 flags forwarded from Community Patch
- Changed By to by when writing the author name for consistency
- Fixed missing author for The Count of Monte Cristo
- Removed blank lines from the end of Bad People, Bad Jokes 1
- Fixed the opening line of Oliver Twist
- Removed a bunch of books from the poems leveled list
- Added missing 'A Tethered Horizon' and 'A Technological Reckoning' to common small leveled list
- Added missing 'The Gravitational Leap' to common medium leveled list
- Fixed editor ID for Extraordinary Adventures #39 - Foundling Mick, not Founding Mick
- Compatibility with Community Patch 0.0.5
Version 1.1.2
- Added 50 classic poems that are purchasable in Ahjong's bookstore or have a chance to spawn in place of common books in about 30% of locations (See Spoiler in the description for full list)
- Removed poems from LL_Loot_Book_Common_Any
- Poems now have a value of 50 + (3 * # of lines) to give some variety
- Removed 16 Snowglobe books where two or more would spawn in one location
Version 1.1.1
- Removed rare book spawn from Kreet Research Lab, too easy to find
- Fixed(?) bug that could prevent you from using E to turn book pages in certain situations
- Changed 20 hand-placed Dracula books to spawn from First Edition books Leveled List
- Removed 54 First Edition books where two or more would spawn in one location. Leaves 94 in the world or about 10 each if they spawn equally.
- Renamed Sonny Di Falcoâ€™s Estate to Sonny Di Falco’s Estate
Version 1.1.0
- Story rewrites/editing for development and pacing. Finished The Count of Monte Cristo, The War of the Worlds, Dracula, The Comet, Moby Dick, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Bleak House, Oliver Twist, and Frankenstein
- Rewrote The Pickwick Papers since it didn't follow the plot of the book.
- Added better structure and more detail to A General History of the Pyrates Volumes 1 and 2, Great Expectations, and A Christmas Carol
- Added the last third of Hard Times
- Fixed text for Hitchhiker's Guide to Unity and the Multiverse
- Fixed some really bad bad jokes
- Fixed title, "Omega: The Last Days" -> "Omega: The Last Days of the World"
Version 1.0.9
- Small fixes, sorry everyone that just downloaded 1.0.8
- Decreased value of small books from 182 to 159
- Decreased value of medium books from 280 to 279 where needed
- Decreased value of poems from 138 to 99
- Refixed the Editor ID for A Brief History of Time again. I swear I don't have any more extra words in it
- Added Book: "Hitchhiker's Guide to Unity and the Multiverse" from/for Cora Wants All the Books
Version 1.0.8
- Extraordinary Voyages dataslates are now Extraordinary Voyages Books. It was a nice try, but they don't stack like books do and definitely don't mix when you spawn both.
- They also have weight and value so I apologize to anyone that has a bunch in their inventory when you update.
- Fixed white box bug in Extraordinary Voyages #36, then rewrote parts of it to make a little more sense
- Changed The Price of Destiny to same size as other landmark books
- Standardized book weight / price loosely based on real world: poems = .33/138, small = .44/182, medium = .51/279, Special books are large with a weight of .88 and have much better value (between 1000 and 2000)
- Rare books list only contains landmark books
- Large books list doesn't spawn special books anymore
- Expanded book: Frankenstein
- Story of the Heavens and Frankenstein only purchasable at Ahjong's bookstore or Zuri's Essentials (can still be found in the wild occasionally)
- Fixed editor ID for A Brief History of Time, FormID is the same
- First Edition books now spawn from a list instead of specific placement so they won't always be where they were, some will spawn more than others, etc...
- Because there are a lot less (137 total in the game) First Edition books, I've raised Ahjong's reward from 2000 to 5000 for each of the 9 books.
- The 9 rare Earth landmark books should be easier to find (65 total, there was only 1 each)
Version 1.0.7
- Removed A General History of Pyrates Vol 2 from Common Large and Common 100 year old books list
- Safe in a NASA Launch Facility will contain a rare book instead of a chance of common or rare
- Lowered chance of Extraordinary Voyages spawn by about 40%
Version 1.0.6
- Cleaned up ITM records
- Moved one copy of A Brief History of Time that wasn't reachable
- All snowglobe books have been expanded (Sir Livingstone's Second Journal, The Ancient Civilization of Egypt, Race to the Heavens, Maurice Lyon's Journal, Hope Family Tree, Our Lost Heritage, Diary of Kyosuke Nagata, Essentials of Modern Macroeconomics, The Price of Destiny)
- Expanded "Sir Livingstone's Journal"
- Expanded "Report - The Clark Lewis"
- Moved History of Pyrates Vol 2 from common to rare books list
- No more random spawns for rare books, if they're there, they were placed there (and there are still way too many)
- Rare books can no longer be purchased from Jemison Mercantile, Jae Montreal, Newills Goods, Emerson Shepherd, random FC trade ships, Daisuke Levitz, Jane's goods, Zuri's essentials, found on a certain ship, or in random enemy loot drops or common safes.
- Common books should be a little more common
Version 1.0.5
- Quick Fix, it's "A Brief History of Time" not "A Brief History of Space and Time"
Version 1.0.4
- Added new books fom v1.0.2 to Book_Common_Any leveled list
- Added the "Extraordinary Voyages" series by Jules Verne which covers 62 new books. All books are on dataslate, weightless and no value, so it's more something to collect than to make money off of. They should spawn wherever common books normally spawn.
- Added missing "Unknown 17" cell setting from Community Patch
- Added keywords to differentiate between books, poems, and dataslates
- Ahjong Sinclair will also buy A General History of the Pyrates vol 2. Subtitles are the same as for vol 1, but she won't actually speak (investigating)
- New Book "A Brief History of Space and Time" as spawnable for use in Cora Wants All The Books since she asks for it. To make it difficult, there are only 5 hand-placed copies in the universe, so if you can find one, I hope she likes it.
Version 1.0.3
- Fixed white box bugs for A Tale of Two Cities, Chunks Employee Handbook, Dragonstar Force Vol 21, 25, 27, 30, Hard Times, Moby Dick, My Life, Chunk by Chunk, Omega: The Last Days, On the Origin of Species, Sword of Damocles, The Crystal Egg, What if I'm Right?
- Fixed formatting in Forever Among Stars
- Fixed wording in parts of Moby Dick
- Added books from v1.0.2 to Ahjong's bookstore
- Changed rare books leveled list to only include the books that can be sold to Ahjong
- Removed rare books from common books leveled lists. If a actual bookstore doesn't have them, they shouldn't be all over the known galaxy.
Version 1.0.2
- Fixed a few more dash/white box errors
- Small rewrites to parts of "My Life, Chunk by Chunk" and "War of the Worlds"
- Corrected title to "On the Origin of Species" instead of "The Origin of Species"
- New Book: The Gravitational Leap ( about the first public demonstration of a grav jump)
- New Books: Earth's Silent Exodus and A Technological Reckoning (about the discovery of Earth's weakening magnetosphere)
- New Book: Tethered Horizon (a family is unable to leave Earth in the face of the weakening magnetosphere)
- New Book: Paradox (An Artifact is discovered at the heart of a gravitational anomaly on Mars that may lead to the downfall of earth)
- Fixed small, medium, and large leveled lists so they contain books with the correct sizes
- Removed Chunks Employee Handbook from distributed leveled lists, it didn't make sense to have so many. They're still placed in the world
- Fixed A History of Pyrates Vol 2 placed on same leveled lists as Vol 1
Version 1.0.1
- - Updated "The Comet" by W.E.B. Dubois
- - Fixed most "dash/white box" errors
- - Pages won't cut in the middle of words anymore
- - Standardized book weight based on size of the book model used
- - Removed an unnecessary explanation from Amala's Journal
- - Fixed formatting in Dragonstar Force Vol 14 and Forever Among Stars
- - A General History of the Pyrates Vol 1 - Cleaned up formatting and removed duplicate names for clarity
- - "Better" bad jokes for Bad People, Bad Jokes Vols 1, 2, and 3
- - Removed extra spacing in Chunks Employee Handbook
- - Remoed blank page from Dragonstar Force Vol 19 and The Paradiso Complex
- - New book: "A General History of the Pyrates Vol 2" added to leveled lists and 9 copies placed in game world (split from History of the Pyrates Vol 1)
- - New book: "A Greater End, Vol 2", 2 copies placed in game world (split from A Great End Vol's 1 and 2)

The 337 books that Bethesda gave us in Skyrim held stories that made the whole world come alive. It wasn't just reading; it was like embarking on a mini-adventure within the game. Whether it was uncovering the lore of ancient civilizations or stumbling upon hidden tales of legendary battles, each book added a layer of richness to the gaming experience. At night, I would often rent a room in a tavern somewhere and read a few stories I had I had collected throughout my adventures before sleeping for the night.

Starfield brings a completely different vibe. There are just 53 books if you don't count the Dragonstar Force series and they feel more like placeholders than immersive elements. The stories lack the depth that made Skyrim's reading experience so captivating. In Skyrim, books were a key part of the adventure, but in Starfield, they are an afterthought, a missed opportunity to build upon this new world. It left me missing the excitement of uncovering hidden gems and discovering the world through the written word.

Books Revamped takes all those books that just included excerpts or didn't really add anything meaningful and updates them with actual stories.

What has been changed?

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Expanded Books:
 - A Christmas Carol
 - History of the Pyrates (Corrected to A General History of the Pyrates Vol 1)
 - A Tale of Two Cities
 - Amala's Journal (from the ECS Constant)
 - Bad People, Bad Jokes volumes 1 - 3
 - Bleak House
 - Carrie of the Cosmos
 - Charity in a Godless Universe Parts I - IV
 - Chunk's Employee Handbook
 - Crimson Cabin
 - David Copperfield
- Diary of Kyosuke Nagata
 - Dracula
 - Dragonstar Force volumes 1 - 30
- Essentials of Modern Macroeconomics
 - Fields of Everglass
- Frankenstein
 - Great Expectations
 - Hard Times
 - History of Xenobiology
- Hope Family Tree
 - Jake and the Enu: Parts 1 and 2
- Maurice Lyon's Journal
 - Moby Dick
 - My Life, Chunk by Chunk
 - Neon Gang Culture
 - Nicholas Nickleby
 - Oliver Twist
 - Omega: The Last Days
- Our Lost Heritage
- Race to the Heavens
 - Red Rover, Come Over
- Report - The Clark Lewis
 - Shadows in the Attic
 - Ship Repair Fundamentals
 - Simpler Times
- Sir Livingstone's Journal
- Sir Livingstone's Second Journal
 - Story of the Heavens
 - Sword of Damocles
 - The Comet
 - The Count of Monte Cristo
 - Tales of Space and Time (Corrected to 'The Crystal Egg')
- The Ancient Civilization of Egypt
 - The Fruit Cellar
 - The Gravity Paradigm
 - The Orchid Merchant
 - The Origin of Species (Corrected to 'On the Origin of Species')
 - The Paradiso Complex
 - The Pickwick Papers
- The Price of Destiny
 - War of the Worlds
 - What if I'm Right?

Expanded Poems
 - Dover Beach
 - Forever Among the Stars
 - Rhapsody On Windy Night
 - The Light of Stars
 - The Learn'd Astronomer (Corrected to 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer')

Inspired by Expanded Books
 - A Greater End, Vol 2 (was not in the game)
 - A General History of the Pyrates Vol 2 (book was originally released in two volumes)

New Classic Books
- Extraordinary Voyages #1 - Five Weeks in a Balloon
- Extraordinary Voyages #2 - The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
- Extraordinary Voyages #3 - Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Extraordinary Voyages #4 - From the Earth to the Moon
- Extraordinary Voyages #5 - In Search of the Castaways
- Extraordinary Voyages #6 - Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas
- Extraordinary Voyages #7 - Around The Moon
- Extraordinary Voyages #8 - A Floating City
- Extraordinary Voyages #9 - The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa
- Extraordinary Voyages #10 - The Fur Country
- Extraordinary Voyages #11 - Around the World in Eighty Days
- Extraordinary Voyages #12 - The Mysterious Island
- Extraordinary Voyages #13 - The Survivors of the Chancellor
- Extraordinary Voyages #14 - Michael Strogoff
- Extraordinary Voyages #15 - Off on a Comet
- Extraordinary Voyages #16 - The Child of the Cavern
- Extraordinary Voyages #17 - Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen
- Extraordinary Voyages #18 - The Begum's Millions
- Extraordinary Voyages #19 - Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
- Extraordinary Voyages #20 - The Steam House
- Extraordinary Voyages #21 - Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
- Extraordinary Voyages #22 - Godfrey Morgan
- Extraordinary Voyages #23 - The Green Ray
- Extraordinary Voyages #24 - Kéraban the Inflexible
- Extraordinary Voyages #25 - The Vanished Diamond
- Extraordinary Voyages #26 - The Archipelago on Fire
- Extraordinary Voyages #27 - Mathias Sandorf
- Extraordinary Voyages #28 - The Lottery Ticket,
- Extraordinary Voyages #29 - Robur the Conqueror
- Extraordinary Voyages #30 - North Against South
- Extraordinary Voyages #31 - The Flight to France
- Extraordinary Voyages #32 - Two Years' Vacation
- Extraordinary Voyages #33 - Family Without a Name
- Extraordinary Voyages #34 - The Purchase of the North Pole
- Extraordinary Voyages #35 - César Cascabel
- Extraordinary Voyages #36 - Mistress Branican
- Extraordinary Voyages #37 - Carpathian Castle
- Extraordinary Voyages #38 - Claudius Bombarnac
- Extraordinary Voyages #39 - Foundling Mick
- Extraordinary Voyages #40 - Captain Antifer
- Extraordinary Voyages #41 - Propeller Island
- Extraordinary Voyages #42 - Facing the Flag
- Extraordinary Voyages #43 - Clovis Dardentor
- Extraordinary Voyages #44 - An Antarctic Mystery
- Extraordinary Voyages #45 - The Mighty Orinoco
- Extraordinary Voyages #46 - The Will of an Eccentric
- Extraordinary Voyages #47 - The Castaways of the Flag
- Extraordinary Voyages #48 - The Village in the Treetops
- Extraordinary Voyages #49 - The Sea Serpent
- Extraordinary Voyages #50 - The Kip Brothers
- Extraordinary Voyages #51 - Travel Scholarships
- Extraordinary Voyages #52 - A Drama in Livonia
- Extraordinary Voyages #53 - Master of the World
- Extraordinary Voyages #54 - Invasion of the Sea
- Extraordinary Voyages #55 - Lighthouse at the End of the World
- Extraordinary Voyages #56 - The Golden Volcano
- Extraordinary Voyages #57 - The Thompson Travel Agency
- Extraordinary Voyages #58 - The Chase of the Golden Meteor
- Extraordinary Voyages #59 - The Danube Pilot
- Extraordinary Voyages #60 - The Survivors of the "Jonathan"
- Extraordinary Voyages #61 - The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz
- Extraordinary Voyages #62 - The Barsac Mission

New Classic Poems
- Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Oak 
- Alfred Noyes - Copernicus 
- Charles Baudelaire - Landscape 
- Christina Georgina Rossetti - Goblin Market 
- Christina Georgina Rossetti - Sister Maude 
- Clement Clarke Moore - Twas The Night Before Christmas 
- D. H. Lawrence - Autumn Rain 
- D. H. Lawrence - New Heaven And Earth 
- Edgar Allan Poe - A Dream 
- Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven 
- Edgar Allan Poe - To The River 
- Edward Dyson - Struck It At Last 
- Edward Smyth Jones - A Bouquet 
- Elizabeth Jennings - In Memory Of Anyone Unknown To Me 
- Elizabeth Jennings - The Enemies 
- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson - Hope. 
- George Gordon Byron - The Waltz 
- George Orwell - Ironic Poem About Prostitution 
- Henry Lawson - Borderland 
- Henry Lawson - The Things We Dare Not Tell 
- Henry Lawson - The Water 
- John Clare - The Birds And St. Valentine 
- John Frederick Freeman - The Call 
- John Greenleaf Whittier - Winter Roses 
- John Keats - A Party Of Lovers 
- John Keats - This Living Hand 
- John Leroy Atwell - Some Little Bug 
- John Masefield - A Ballad Of John Silver 
- John Masefield - Laugh And Be Merry 
- Joseph Addison - Hope 
- Joseph Burrows - The Road That Has No End 
- Matthew Arnold - The Youth Of Nature 
- Nizar Qabbani - A Brief Love Letter 
- Robert Herrick - To Marigolds. 
- Robert Lee Frost - Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening 
- Robert Lowell - Children Of Light 
- Rudyard Kipling - If.... 
- Rudyard Kipling - The Undertaker's Horse 
- Sara Teasdale - The Star 
- Sir Walter Scott - Twist Ye, Twine Ye 
- Violet Jacob - Fringford Brook 
- Washington Irving - The Enchanted Island
- William Butler Yeats - A Cradle Song 
- William Butler Yeats - A Dream Of Death 
- William Butler Yeats - A Drinking Song 
- William Butler Yeats - A Needle's Eye 
- William Butler Yeats - He And She 
- William Butler Yeats - Men Improve With The Years 
- William Butler Yeats - The Four Ages Of Man 
- William Schwenck Gilbert - There was an Old Man of St. Bees


Original Books
 - The Gravitational Leap - An account of the first public demonstration of a grav jump
 - Earth's Silent Exodus - Regarding the discovery of Earth's weakening magnetosphere
 - A Technological Reckoning - One scientist's caution reveals a delicate balance between human ambition and Earth's destiny
 - Tethered Horizon - a family is unable to leave Earth in the face of the weakening magnetosphere
 - Paradox - An Artifact is discovered at the heart of a gravitational anomaly on Mars that may lead to the downfall of earth

Miscellaneous Changes:
 - Book weight has been standardized based on the book model used (small, medium, large)
 - Leveled list fixes based on book model used and rarity
- Rare books don't spawn at the same rate as common books
- Rare books really rare, common books are the ones you'll find everywhere

Compatibility:
- Starfield 1.8.86
- Starfield Community Patch v0.04
- Cora Wants All The Books by VenpiTheGamer
- Paper Books by animandan
- No dependence on SFSE, does not require update when that mod updates

Installation:
- Preferably use Mod Organizer 2 or Vortex. Install as you would anything else
- Installing mid-game is 100% safe, book text will show up immediately, new books will spawn with any others.
- Uninstall mid-game is 100% safe, book text will revert back to being terrible, new books will (I think) disappear.
- Update mid-game is 100% safe, any changes will appear immediately on game load.

Manual Installation:
- Manually Download the mod.
- Unzip the contents into %userprofile%\Documents\My Games\Starfield\Data.
- Download and install Plugins.txt Enabler.
- Create a Plugins.txt file in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Starfield if you don't have one and add *BooksRevamped.esm to it.
- Go read

Known Issues:
(Investigating, don't pressure me. Go read a book.)
- If using StarUI, new books don't get the updated book icon (inventory or HUD)
- Ahjong Sinclair doesn't use her voice when you turn in A General History of the Pyrates vol 2
- Book descriptions (hover) get cut off on a lot of the books, I need to shorten them.
- Picking up a book and immediately pressing E to turn the page may not work in some situations. I'm not sure if this is vanilla behavior or something I did.

Future Plans:
- I kind of go where the wind takes me right now.

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