Hey, a guy put together an ebook with all the books in Skyrim...so yeah, if you need Skyrim when you're not playing Skyrim, here's to The Lusty Argonian Maid...http://capane.us/2011/11/24/dovahkiin-gutenberg/

Credit to Kyle Hilliard at Game Informer for posting this.

That first paragraph is the only important part.

One of the comments on that page says on the smallest Kindle font setting, there are 1,665 pages. Nuts.

@MB: By the Kindle metric, it's about as long as the longest Harry Potter book (Order of the Phoenix).

I'm the dude that did it. Crazy awesome how quickly it caught on. :)

I have over 100 different books that I've found stored in my house so that I can read them sometime, but I guess this would be much easier...

Wabbajack is the only book that matters.

I was quite thrilled to get this. Gonna have reading material for ages.

@Capaneus said:

I'm the dude that did it. Crazy awesome how quickly it caught on. :)

If this is true then hats off to you!

Does this work on Android phones?

@TheMustacheHero: Thanks! It just started out as something I wanted to do for myslef so I could read the books while I was at work, or on lunch break. And then I was like, why not release it to everyone. I had no idea I'd get almost 100K hits. Hopefully Beth Soft is cool with it.

@Battery24: I can't download the kindle version on my macbook.

How long until somebody prints and binds this?

@briangodsoe: Probably not long. Someone did it for Oblivion,

@Capaneus: Cant Download the kindle version on my macbook. any suggestions?

What do you mean by, "can't download"? Like it's timing out, or its displaying in the browser? What browser are you using?

@Capaneus: its displaying in the browser, I'm using safari

Tried it in Chrome and it worked.

@Capaneus said:

I'm the dude that did it. Crazy awesome how quickly it caught on. :)

Congratulations! You did an amazing job. Going to read them on my way to school now. :)

@ProjectMayhem: Yeah, it seems like the MIME types on my server are not set up right, and since I have el cheapo hosting package, I can't tweak the .epub and .mobi MIME types to force a download, so some browsers thinks its a webpage.

Can I put this on my Ipod touch?

Crazy cool! Could I have this for my iPhone please? I'm wondering, maybe I should just make my own script if all there is to it is getting in touch with the xml-file! I should theoretically know how to do that!

Can I put this on my Ipod touch?

Fucking awesome! Now someone just needs to make it into an audiobook

@Tacoboy1986 said:

Can I put this on my Ipod touch?

Anyone? That would be awesome to know!

@Azteck said:

@MrCandleguy

@Tacoboy1986 said:

Can I put this on my Ipod touch?

Anyone? That would be awesome to know!

I am interested to know as well

Well if you get the kindle version I'm sure it may be readable on the the kindle app but I don't know I don't have an ipod

@Capaneus: I'm gifting you a premium yearly membership to Giant Bomb as part of the community's "pay it forward" plan for doing something awesome. Nice work duder.

@snide said:

@Capaneus: I'm gifting you a premium yearly membership to Giant Bomb as part of the community's "pay it forward" plan for doing something awesome. Nice work duder.

Nice! Well deserved.

Just downloaded both versions. Totally awesome, since I pass up most of the books in favor of shooting deer...

ALL Units!

Psh, the greatest book is obviously the Mysterium Xarxes. ALL HAIL LORD DAGON.

@Roger_Klotz said:

My books are in a big (pain in the ass to find one book) pile in my house. So I might look into this.

You DO know that you can put them on bookshelves, right? My stuff is very nice and neatly organized...sort of. Eventually, I'm going to go back through and organize everything by volume and such.

Yes, I'm actually collecting EVERY BOOK IN THE GAME to put into all my different houses.

@snide: Sweet!!! Thanks man! I'd been wanting to get premium, I've just been so broke lately. :)

@MrCandleguy: I figured it out. Download the free Kindle app, then on itunes go to the app tab and scroll down. You should see file sharing, select the kindle app and just throw the mobi file into the kindle documents. It worked for me.

epub version? Also are these really good? I never read any of the books in Oblivion.

@ProjectMayhem: Yeah, it seems like the MIME types on my server are not set up right, and since I have el cheapo hosting package, I can't tweak the .epub and .mobi MIME types to force a download, so some browsers thinks its a webpage.

@Capaneus: Awesome work. Thanks for sharing your project with the internet :)

This seems like a good idea. No way I would read that many pages in the game.

I'ma try my very best to get this to work with my WP7.5 kindle app, but I'm sceptical.

@MrCandleguy: I figured it out. Download the free Kindle app, then on itunes go to the app tab and scroll down. You should see file sharing, select the kindle app and just throw the mobi file into the kindle documents. It worked for me.

Bwahaha, Dovahkiin Gutenberg. I love it.

On my Droid Sensation phone I downloaded the epub version and my phone saved it as a .txt then I used Explorer app and renamed the file extension to .epub. I d/l'ed Moon Reader; a ebook app, and can read them on the go now. Thanks for the awesome upload.

@AlexW00d said:

I'ma try my very best to get this to work with my WP7.5 kindle app, but I'm sceptical.

I was sceptical, but I got it to work, albeit in a third party reader that isn't particularly good, but it's there. Shame it wouldn't work with Kindle.

@Azteck said:

@MrCandleguy

@Tacoboy1986 said:

Can I put this on my Ipod touch?

Anyone? That would be awesome to know!

I am interested to know as well

The EPUB version works great on my 3GS with iBooks (free itunes app). Just read Beggar, Thief, Warrior, and King on the buss, thank you a thousand times for this! Premium membership well deserved.

Thanks for the ebook. I've read some of the books in-game but the urge to explore is great. Now they're all on my phone to be read at my leisure. Too cool!

For the Android users who use the Kindle app: throw the mobi file into the sdcard/kindle folder, go to manage applications and force close the Kindle app. The next time you open the app Books of Skyrim will be there.

Great work, thanks for the effort.. I tossed it on my phone (Droid3) and it works great with the Kindle reader app. I'm sure it will be even better on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 at home, certainly better than the odd font choices they use for some of the in-game books. Plus I always want to stop to read the books, but if they span more than a few pages I get kinda antsy and want to keep playing.

Man, I am totally feeling the love. Thanks for all the kind words! I put up a followup post that answers some common questions:

http://capane.us/2011/11/29/timidly-approaching-the-microphone/

This is incredible, and worked perfectly on my Kindle. Thanks so much for taking the time to do this!

Amazing! Thanks for putting this together Capaneus.

@Capaneus: Double thumbs up dude.