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[coalboat]

Sibrek Koganor, Scholar    Guest / Write About The Pulley!

Later, I saw the scroll "In Pursuit of Pulleys". Sibrek wrote her work on a fortress produced pig tail scroll, and now the scroll is in her inventory. The scroll can't be read by dwarfs and will go away with her when she leaves.

However, some scholars did leave their work in the fortress. I wonder in what circumstances a book belongs to the author, and how a book belongs to the fortress.

I think that when a scholar writes on a table, the book remains on the table, and becomes fortress property, and when a scholar writes without a table (they can do that!), the book is in their inventory, and thus belongs to them.

I decide to put 11 tables and 11 chairs in the public library(the one open to visitors), and observe.

[coalboat]

I think my hypothesis is correct!

Another scholar, Udib Rovodnom, wrote "It is Animal Diet", on a table. And it belongs to my fortress! On the stock menu you can check the scrolls under the "tools" entry. If it's brown, it belongs to the fortress, and if it's red, it doesn't.

[coalboat]

The morale is that platform(table) steals your data(scroll)! That's why social network sites claim that they own our data.

[delphonso]

Interesting. I know there is (was?) a bug where visitors would read a book and walk off with it, forgetting to put it back down. Very frustrating for expensive books or books with secrets.

[coalboat]

This is why I have two libraries, one with coffers of blank scrolls, open to all visitors, and one with some bookcases, only accessible to citizens. The books are only stored in bookcases, so they are safe from the foreign hands .

[delphonso]

Is that a VPN, then?

[coalboat]

Kind of a reversed GFW!

[PatrikLundell]

I think visitors drop their own books held in their hands when they read fortress ones (and frequently "forgets" to return the fortress book). However, that's a different issue than production.

[coalboat]

Looks like a fair trade.