Show Read Books V1.0

This mod will show on the activation prompt if a book, slate, or magazine has already been read(taken), and allows you to quickly loot a book without menu prompt even in scanner mode…

But why?

Quality of life and a never ending addiction to looting and grinding for the sake of completion.

Details?

If you take a book it will be moved to your inventory right away, no menu prompt, no need to click three buttons to just loot a book. Additionally a tag is applied to the activation prompt to inform you about if a book/slate/magazine has already been read. So were it said “Take Book” before, it now says “Take Book(Read)”. The original prompt “Take” is also completely replaced.

How was it done?

Adding perk to player to enable activation menu default replace, then add the world object(book reference) to the player. Additionally the object(book reference) will have its base object checked, and that one is then placed into a formlist. Then in the activation menu perk I check against the formlist.

Is this compatible with Books Revamped?

Yes. Out of the Box as well as into the Box. You can insert any other Books Mod, like Marked Landmark Books(name label change), Cora the Multiverse Bookhunter, Cora wants all the Books everywhere all at once, and Cora the Metaverse Bookzucker. Paper Books is also compatible(.swf hack).

So in short: everything that does not do anything OnActivate with the books that dircetly conflicts with SRB(acronym for Short Read Books), or changes activation label via Perk/Papyrus is compatible. This actually wasn’t shorter than the last sentence.

There’s a lot of books!

I know right. That’s why I’m using two form lists. If you really for whatever reason should exceed the number of 510 book forms added to the lists, there’s still room to build a third form list.

Wasn’t this part of your other interactor mod?

Yes. But the interactor mod is more like a Jack of all traits, and quite experimental, this one is extensively tested…well kind of, and doesn’t force users to live with features they don’t want. Also, I’m quite sure there are a few people that exactly wanted this urgently. Looting books can be quite a nuisance in Starfield.

How to install?

Done with currently experimental xEdit, so mind the risk!

According to the developers of Mo2 -> drag&drop, Vortex the same. But if you want to do it full yolo hardcore, do it manually this way:

1. download Plugin enabler and install per instructions
2. add this to your load order .txt file(without quotes) “SRB_ShowReadBooks.esm”
3. move the file inside the .zip to your Starfield/Data folder
4. blatantly ignore anything said about MyGames in the past
5. done

Credits:

CrEaToXx