I appreciate your dedication to maintaining open access to high-quality literature within the confines of Qud! You, dear mod author, are a beacon of vigilance and care! Have a nice day!

should be fixed now

This mod seems to be broken in 1.0, I'm trying to fix it.

A must get mod thx

gotm

The continuing survival of great books and works of literature; even against~all~odds! Is always a welcomed thought, and one that I thoroughly enjoy!

Hmmmmm...
Given the option? I'd love to add the infamous 'Voynich Manuscript' to the game, just for kicks. It really feels like it somehow fits?

Preferably though, rather than just the copied text? In the case of the Voynich Manuscript, I might add an object that is meant to be the "Original" book, *Itself*, as an unique artifact. Maybe, even make it an in~destructible artifact, and then, give it some peculiar benefit, or some unusual purpose (or even a destiny!), in the game?

(I'd make it "in~destructible", as in, the "Regenerates, from a single molecule" variety, by the way. )

Perhaps some kind of reward could be given, if you turned it over to proper Librarian~custody?

If anyone wanted to take it even a step or two further? ...Going along with the idea, of the Manuscript, being this "mysteriously in~destructible Artifact" (Within the World of the game, at~least!); then they could make findable/recoverable, the pages of the book that are apparently missing, IRL; and then, have the Manuscript be restore~able, in~game.

Or, take it to the furthest conclusion, and make a pretend "Voynich *Translation*" (just for fun!)
One, that our characters could eventually find (or produce, themselves, with the aid of some
kind of futuristic "Universal Translator" piece of lost (or, completely ALIEN to Earth) technology!

A couple of other "thematic" suggestions, that are definitely within the Public~Domain!:

Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein',
Sun~Tsu's 'The Art of War' (Trans. to English, first in 1905)
Charles Darwin's 'On The Origin of Species'
Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' (English Trans. by Ian Johnson, is in the Public Domain)
Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'The Lost Continent' (Original Title: 'Beyond Thirty'), Published in 1916
Friedrich Nietszhe's 'Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None' (English Trans. by Thomas Common, is in the Public Domain)
Stanley G. Weinbaum's 'A Martian Odyssey', and 'Valley of Dreams' Both, published in 1934

Thanks so much for reading!

Madlad over here putting whole ass books in Caves of Qud

Lmao my mom gave me that book some time ago

now that librarian in the Stilt will be happier

I can provide you with copy of snow crash tho

I wrote a shoddy python script to do just that for the 6 books I've workshop'd so far. But Qud's files (books.xml) have an auto-format option, if you can get that working you might not even need the script.

Stuff like Snow Crash isn't public domain, I don't want to mess with that.

It would be funny if someone wrote a script which automates this process for arbitrary *.txt files. So you could download a bunch of books from Project Gutenberg and then import them into Caves of Qud.

fukken saved
plz add more real world books to caves of qud
Lu Tsi Syn, Memories of the Qud's future
Neuromancer, Snow Crash
those would blend in smoothly

ok

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2675530282

you should put in notes from underground

well, i guess now's a good a time as any to read Crime and Punishment for the first time.

Beautiful

this made my day idk why loel

Briliant mod. Alvays dreamed about it.