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[MCreeper]

Brought necrobook to forteress with adventurer to make a necromancer fortress, placed it on library's floor. After unretire it ended up on the surface and dwarves completely ignore it. Will not haul it to library or stockpile or read it. Book bought from caravan works just fine. Any way to unglitch it or prevent glitch from happening in the first place? I have some backup saves just in case.  Randomly tried cleanowned and troubleshoot-item in dfhack to no result. Adventurer left the fortress immidiately after me settling him.

[Leonidas]

There are bugs with items dropped by adventurers into retired fortresses. They don't seem to affect simple items like bars of metal, only complex manufactured items like artifacts, armor, and weapons.

No guarantees with these bugs, but I would try:
1. Double-check to make sure that the book isn't forbidden. With books and other artifacts, it's not obvious when an object is forbidden.
2. Run this script while there aren't any merchants on the map. It scrubs the foreign and trader flags off every item in the fort.

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for i, item in ipairs (df.global.world.items.all) do
    if item.flags.trader then
     item.flags.trader = false
        dfhack.println ("Trader Flag Unset")
     end
     if item.flags.foreign then
     item.flags.foreign = false
        dfhack.println ("Foreign Flag Unset")
     end     
  end

3. Put the book onto a pedestal, then destroy the pedestal. If that doesn't work, put it on a pedestal and then remove it from the pedestal.

[PatrikLundell]

It's usually the trader flag that causes issues with books (when dropped by visitors killed by siegers, etc.), together with the Forbid flag. Clearing the foreign flag on everything will change the items to be fortress produced, I think, which isn't exactly what you want (although I don't think the side effects are much of an issue in most cases).

[MCreeper]

Book does not show up on pedestal list, but script helped, thanks.