January 11 2012
Dovahkiin Gutenberg v1.1
Hello fans! I am humbly amazed how many people are still coming to the site and dropping kind words on the project. It seems people are still discovering the awesomeness that is Skyrim on a daily basis. Unsurprisingly, I’ve still not heard a peep from Bethesda on if they appreciate what I am doing or not, so I guess I will continue with my plans of world domination, err, I mean, Tamrielic Chronicling. In the upcoming weeks, I’d like to release Books of Oblivion and Books of Morrowind, but for now, enjoy a quick update to the Books of Skyrim.
Here are today’s updates:
- New cover! Credit goes to Aladario, the cover on the Spanish version was too good not to use.
- Original images from the books are now included. I made a design decision to not include the decorative calligraphy for first letters in a paragraph. It made it harder to read, and just did not look good in a digital format. The updated books are:
- The Firmament
- Harvesting Frostbite Spider Venom
- Herbalist’s Guide to Skyrim
- Kolb & The Dragon
- Shadowmarks
- Songs of Pelinal Volume 7
- Surviving A Horker Attack
- Troll Slaying
- The Alduin/Akatosh Dichotomy has been moved out of the Books of 2920 section. (Despite the game’s copy saying it was a Book of 2920).
- The book A Minor Maze has been added.
So without further adeiu, here are your links:
[...] Update 2: By popular demand, I’ve added images and cleaned up a few details. Click here for my post about it! [...]
I just discovered your site yesterday and was blown away to have all the lore of Skyrim in a single file. I was afraid that you had maybe forgotten about updating it, since the original post was around two months ago, or weren’t going to move forward until you heard back from Bethesda, even if they never contacted you back. Now here I am a day later and you’ve released an update; I have impeccable timing!
I currently don’t have my copy of Skyrim yet, I’ve ordered it and can’t wait for it to be delivered, but having played Oblivion and Morrowind I know the lore in Skyrim will be just as amazing. I’m restraining myself from starting to read it until I’ve at least played the game and gotten into the world a bit.
I can’t wait until you release something for the previous games, I’ll have to keep checking back. Thanks a ton for this release!
Now all we need to do is pool our resources and get them narrated by Leonard Nimoy!
Thanks for the kind words! Man, Nimoy does need to be in the next Elder Scrolls game.
I opened this page on my iPhone, tapped the EPUB version and then the given option of Open in “iBooks” which works except the pictures come up as the blue box with a ? in it. Am I doing something wrong?
No, you are not. I’m still trying to figure out why some pictures do not work properly in iBooks. It works fine in other devices.
THIS IS AMAZING.
You, sir, are my hero right now. Prolly going to print them and make some sort of decorative leather-bound “talk peace” like some guy did with Oblivion.
You should totally do the books of Morrowind as well… I used to sit and read them (in game) and just drool at the world they’d bring me into
Again, YOU ARE AWESOME!! THANKS!!!
And another problem is that there are two empty bookmarks in Remanada (both for Chapter 2), though do not know why.
Cao and Darqon,
Thanks for pointing these issues out to me! They are fixed now, so if you want you can redownload and get the latest copy.
Thanks a lot! Much closer to perfection~ ^_^
Still some spelling mistakes, I’ll collect them.
Actually, if there are spelling mistakes, they would have also been in the original version, so I’m inclined to keep them there. In fact, most of the misspellings are intentional, and show that the fictional person in Tamriel that wrote it might not have been educated.
Excellent work, thanks so much…
Words cannot properly express my gratitude! I’ve always loved the TES lore, so actually being able to have a bit of it with me at all times is just about the best thing ever. It must’ve taken quite a bit of time to sort through it all and organise it, so thank you!
Books of Morrowind would be absolutely amazing as well, I got way too excited when I read that.
Thank you very much!
Thanks for putting this together. I’m buying my son a Kindle shortly and he loves fantasy stories.
Thank You so much! I’m waiting for Books of Oblivion/Morrowind. Thank you very much!!
Somehow I feel you need to combine the Woodcutter’s Wife and the Cabin stories – the latter is the sequel (volume 2) after all…
By combine, I mean put them next to each other, of course.
*ado
Fantastic! Thanks so much! BTW you know it’s “further ado” right
Thank you very much! im gonna print this.. and if you have free time please make elderscroll encyclopedia.. i’ll pay you
can you make a pdf version of this? i wanna print this out.. thank you for your hardwork
I can’t wait for the oblivion and morrowind book release
Did you include these in the update since they were missing in the first release?
* Night of Tears
* Chimarvamidium: Ancient Tales of the Dwemer Pt. VI
* Mixed Unit Tactics in the Five Years War Vol.1
* Velehk Sain – Pirate King of the Abecean
Also, how about adding in the various journals from NPC characters, like the four parts of Arondil’s books? There a many others as well. Kodlak’s journal is quite interesting. You would have to change the player’s name in it to Dragonborn though.
Never mind about the “Chimarvamidium”, just noticed in the new version that you have it under “Ancient Tales of the Dwemer”, but the other tomes are still missing.
please make a PDF version! thank you!