#a book I'd buy

[episims]

What We Need Is... More Books

After long last I realized that instead of battling with the constant urge to swap my book defaults, I could just give my sims more books to read.

This mod combines both of mine + iSimChi's book defaults and makes the game randomize between those for each genre. So instead of 7 books, there are 21 ✨

I made my older covers use the pages of my newer ones since they have more details.

The mod also fixes the following book behavior:

Books placed outside of bookshelves will no longer turn upwards when a lot is loaded

The 'read to sleep' interaction (that was added in Apartment Life and appears on minors who are in bed but haven't yet fallen asleep) will use children's books instead of the skilling one

This mod consists of two files. In addition to the mod file, there's a texture file that includes the needed book defaults.

If you want to use the mod with some other defaults, simply replace the textures from the texture file. You can also use that file as a base for making your own default set of 21 books.

📚 Download (SFS) (alternate)

Free Time is required. Conflicts with other book cover default replacements, remove those before using these. Also conflicts with ftminifixes by Pescado, if you want to use both make my mod load last (you'll lose the golden book that ftminifixes brings back to the reward bookcase since this mod randomizes textures for that bookcase too).

⚠️ A replacement for novel icons isn't included. You'll probably want to get the one from my newer defaults, as those covers will be used for the novels with the included texture file.

Many thanks to @isimchi for the permission to use their awesome textures 💜 for full credits, please see the original posts.

Update (11.11.2024): The covers are now also randomized for the bed/hammock reading interactions and for the film & literature reading while walking hobby idle. For all of these, sims can now also pick books other than skilling and will show an individual taste in books based on the sim's interests, hobbies, and aspirations, as well as on 3t2 traits* if those are used.

*Includes trait checks for bookworm, computer whiz, dramatic, hopeless romantic, natural cook, and perceptive.

All the books have 512x512 textures and use a 64x64 specular map. The mod file includes improved material definitions that also fix some lighting issues for the drama and the scifi books.

[elizmanderson]

it's Pride Month now so all day long all my social feeds were filled with my friends going "hey it's Pride Month! I'm queer! please buy my queer books!" and I thought about how I am also supposed to be doing that and I'm just too fuckin tired

I mean I'm sure I'll do it at some point, or at minimum I'll participate in PrideBookFest on Bluesky because that can be kinda fun and it comes with prompts and I got a bunch of stuff ready in advance so that'll help but like

why aren't my books selling themselves this month so I can have a goddamn break. homophobic tbh

[marlynnofmany]

Ya like cheap ebooks? It's a great week for folks who are into that sort of thing.

"Read An Ebook Week!"

(You'd think they'd call it "indie authors hawk their wares at a discount" week, but I figure that just doesn't roll off the tongue in a festive manner.)

Anyways, all of my ebooks are half price here. Aliens, robots, gods and cyberpunk; take your pick.

March 2-8, 2025!

[mirai-e-jump]

Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger Photo Book: ~King of Kings~ Character Bromides

[vaguely-concerned]

the genuine warmth and amused affection in emmrich's little chuckle at the second mourn watch background option here does something to my heart. I love you too, emmrich. also possibly a quote from the watcher oaths? "To always watch over the boundaries of death, and measure the dreaming sea."

man I love the mourn watch. these bitches love poetry. fucking insufferable classics major goths of thedas (wildly affectionate)

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I think it's a rumour started by a parody joke account, but the way we all heard a variation of "F1 driver Franco Colapinto hits it off with Norwegian Princess" and immediately went:

[utilitycaster]

I kind of hope the age of umbra party levels up because there's some REALLY good level 2 cards out there

[obscuritez]

Could someone help me locate which book and pages these images are from?

also I don't own psychical copies of the books and was wondering if there was any way to read the book of bill and journal 3 online?

[fictionadventurer]

This is probably the wrong way to do it, but the only way I can get ready for Lent is to take what Chesterton might call a Robinson Crusoe approach. I'm going to go without certain things during Lent, so I get excited to enjoy the things I'll have, especially if it's something I don't appreciate enough during the months when I'm not fasting. Like, I give up sweets during Lent, so now's the time to get excited about pretzels. I'm giving up my phone, so it's time to get excited about other things I can do with my free time. Stuff like that.

[nadiajustbe]

Howl absolutely steals Megan's earrings and I am not explaining this.

[badgopher]

Friday

"Does table salt go bad" and "first amendment text" and "richmond virginia suburbs" and other things I've asked the Internet this week.

It was almost warm enough a couple days this week to make park days a thing. I tried. My toes got cold.

I think banning TikTok as it exists today is probably a good idea, but the law to effect that change seems to be in conflict with the first bullet point in the bill of rights. If we lived in a time where precedent mattered, I might be more bothered about how this all plays out. Will the government give TikTok assurances they wont enforce the law that the government enacted to oust them? Who knows. Does it matter? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ At the end of the day, I think I'm mostly just sad about my TikTok (maybe?) going away.

Booked a trip to (the suburbs of) Richmond, VA for the middle of February. A couple nights in Tuckahoe and a couple in Chester. Mostly just a vibe check. I'm hoping to settle on a plan by early March.

[work stuff.]

Rachel Platten is coming to town in March and it took me all of about 12 seconds to buy a ticket this morning, even though I haven't listened to her music in ages.

I have so many pictures to sort through and scan. And a bunch of laundry to fold.

Maybe this weekend.

It could happen.

[whorkn33]

I've been using him as a coloring page

line art by @asaka-lucy-dr-rc

[anne-bsd-bibliophile]

The Demon of the Lonely Isle by Edogawa Ranpo

Whatever challenge or hardship we face, it is never as dreadful as that which we are able to imagine.

- Edogawa Ranpo, The Demon of the Lonely Isle

Our youthful spirits were still capable of enjoying such adventures and thrilled at keeping secrets. Added to this, the type of relationship that existed between Michio and myself meant we were more than just 'friends'. Michio's affection for me was atypical - although I didn't really comprehend how he felt, I understood it on an intellectual level - and like any normal romantic sentiment it wasn't necessarily unwelcome, so when we were face to face, there was a kind of sweet sexual tension in the air. This tension perhaps made our 'game' all the more pleasurable.

- Edogawa Ranpo, The Demon of the Lonely Isle

Nobody can see the plight we're in, we can't see each other's faces. After we die, our bodies will lie here undiscovered for eternity. But just as this place has no light, it has no laws, no morality, no customs. It is another world, where humanity is extinguished. In the short time we have left, I want to disregard all such formalities. We need not feel embarrassment or jealousy, or hide behind good manners or put on a show anymore. We're like two newborn beings, the only living creatures in this primordial darkness. - Edogawa Ranpo, The Demon of the Lonely Isle

A little bit of darkness and people fall to pieces. Get a hold of yourself. Where there's life there's hope.

- Edogawa Ranpo, The Demon of the Lonely Isle

Fun Fact:

Ranpo's friend and fellow detective writer Yokomizo Seishi (1902-81) wrote, 'the love for the same sex, which had been a long-standing desire of the author [sakka no hisashiki ganbō de atta dōseiai], had finally been incorporated into this novel.' An insert to another multivolume collection of Ranpo's works published in 1938 and 1939 emphasizes in boldface type that Kotō no oni is 'a work in which the author dealt with the topic of same-sex love.'

- Jeffrey Angles, Writing the Love of Boys pages 14-15

[kalied0skull]

the universe keeps telling me to read dead poets society and I'm trying so hard to ween it off because i have 4 books still needing to be read but my next line-up of books are SO MUCH MORE FUN ,, AUGHHH

[shouyuus]

Hiii! Are you much of a gamer? Do you have a favorite one? :3

hi steph!!!! <333 how're u lovely?

i say that im not much of a gamer??? but i have like 80+ games on my steam so.... /looks at self in the mirror/ what is the truth --

i think i consider myself like... a binge/cozy gamer? i tend to play 1 game all the way thru, during a pretty short span (alas, hyperfixation brain... alas), and then never touch it again so i tend to like storyrich games (and those are the ones that i have the most of) -- for a while i played a decent amount of visual novels on my phone (before pandemic started and i started working/writing for those companies and it took the magic away just a lil lol)

but!!! im getting carried away -- some games i rly liked:

strange horticulture (i'm SOOOO excited for strange antiques!!! i have the demo and im SALIVATING)

what remains of edith finch

miss fisher's murder mysteries (i love the show too, and im reading the books hehe)

kathy rain (i know there's a new one coming out so im excite for that too!)

it takes two (this is probably THE first platformer i've played properly and it was bc my bf played it with me and it was super fun)

split fiction (by the same company it takes two! also a great co-op!)

honkai (obvi lmfao im in the DEPTHS of it rn but i like the story/characters more than i like the battle mechanics lol)

a case of distrust

coffee talk and coffee talk 2

and then some super retro stuff cause the only game console i've ever owned is a ds LOL:

kirby !!!!

those prince of tennis dating games in jpn (bc i am nothing if not an otome simp at heart)

the world ends with you (BOMB sO BOMB)

kingdom hearts (whichever one was avail for the ds at the time)

999 (this is kinda horror but it was still good)

[hamletisintown]

mmmmh murderbot diaries does have a french edition... as usual i am torn b/w reading it in the og language and just reading it in french...

i kinda want to read it in english but also i think it's going to be WAY easier to just order the french edition at my local bookshop rather than like. Try to order it from the states or whatever. or find an ebook that doesn't require an app to be read.