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[Broseph Stalin]

You turn sheets into scrolls or quires, dwarves write on either. If it's a scroll they write and their done if it's a quire you can optinally bind it into a book.

[kemoT]

Seems like a textbook from my school:

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[Kiloku]

Someone in Reddit's Dwarf Fortress subreddit got a Necromancer book in a trade caravan. Now a bunch of his dwarves have read it casually and became necromancers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/3wfkq1/well_look_what_the_merchant_caravan_brought_me/

[Broseph Stalin]

Someone in Reddit's Dwarf Fortress subreddit got a Necromancer book in a trade caravan. Now a bunch of his dwarves have read it casually and became necromancers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/3wfkq1/well_look_what_the_merchant_caravan_brought_me/

Actually he brought the book to the fortress in adventure mode, the caravan brought a copy.

[thriggle]

Yeah, that was me. The real scoop of interest is that the caravan was bringing copies of an original text that was contained in my fortress at the time. In fact, all the texts the dwarven caravan brings are always copies of books from my own library, which leads me to suspect that mine is the civilization's only library. The copies, I assume, were generated during the calendar progression between game sessions.

[Broseph Stalin]

So my library produced a bunch of books then stopped, I just designated it as a library from a table as well and that got two dwarves right to writing. Might be helpful.

[Bumber]

Yeah, that was me. The real scoop of interest is that the caravan was bringing copies of an original text that was contained in my fortress at the time. In fact, all the texts the dwarven caravan brings are always copies of books from my own library, which leads me to suspect that mine is the civilization's only library. The copies, I assume, were generated during the calendar progression between game sessions.

But how did they copy the entire content of your books? Did you give away copies? Do we all have kobold spies in our midst, while we're blissfully unaware?

[Bwint]

Yeah, that was me. The real scoop of interest is that the caravan was bringing copies of an original text that was contained in my fortress at the time. In fact, all the texts the dwarven caravan brings are always copies of books from my own library, which leads me to suspect that mine is the civilization's only library. The copies, I assume, were generated during the calendar progression between game sessions.

But how did they copy the entire content of your books? Did you give away copies? Do we all have kobold spies in our midst, while we're blissfully unaware?

They memorized the entire book and re-wrote it from memory.
Alternatively, during the two weeks between adventurer retire and fortress unretire, the fortress dwarves copied the books and gave them away/allowed them to be stolen.

[thriggle]

Found this gem in legends mode:

"First The Individual, Then The World!"

First The Individual, Then The World! was a legendary werecoyote parchment scroll. Written on the item is an essay entitled First the Individual, Then The World! authored by Irene Ripedipped. It concerns the value of independence. The writing bubbles over with cheerfulness. Overall, the prose is passable.

[Kumquat]

Something written in my aquifer fortress:

"Journey To The Stars"

Cheesily, it is a simple manual about making star charts. I feel gypped.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Honestly, that sounds like a textbooks chapter I've been forced to read. Dwarf Fortress: School Nightmares Returning.

I actually like school, but that textbook... urgh