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[Mostali]

My single scribe has been on the job for nearly a year.  When assigned, he immediately set about copying all the scrolls bought from caravans.  There are no assigned scholars as all immigrants have been void dwarves with no scholarly skills, but visitors have come and produced original works.  It appears that the scribe has never copied an original scroll, even though there are plenty of blank scrolls available.

I've noticed something like this in previous forts, where I thought it was that scribes didn't copy scrolls at all.  But again, this scribe copied all the purchased scrolls, then just seems to have stopped working.  Anyone know why?

[Dunamisdeos]

Maybe its the allowed amount of writing supplies or whatever its called? I had problems with people writing books in relation to that. I had to raise it.

[Mostali]

It doesn't appear that's the problem.  My writing material is 37/100.  But it leads to questions of other limitations so I'm expanding the library in case it's a shortage of something else, like chairs, tables, coffers or bookcases.

[Aslandus]

Scribes just seem to be lazy, I know mine is working because copies of books written by scholars show up occasionally, but he never seems to be doing the actual job and most of the books in my fortress remain uncopied. I always find him harvesting pineapples or something instead.

[Findulidas]

There is a bug that stops them from copying anything and just idle if they are stopped mid copying something. Think there was a temporary fix if you found the quire (should say task or tsk on it) and then forbid it unforbid it.

Could also be that he hates knowledge and isnt curious.