DIYer Creates Real-Life Oblivion Tome Containing Text From Every Book In The Game
While we’re gearing up for the dragon-slaying awesome that is said to permeate The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, it never hurts to take a peek back at the past. Part of Oblivion’s allure lies in its massive game world, a world made even larger by the utterly insane number of well-written books scattered around the land. Even more insane, one enterprising DIYer gathered all of those documents and created a real-life tome comprised of every book Oblivion offers.

Reddit user notadoctoreither – interesting name, that – printed out all of the books in the game on high-quality paper, then finished the deal by encasing the wordy goodness in a spiffy leather binding. The results are abso-freakin’-lutely amazing. Notadoctoreither says the project took him about a month and set him back $130, which isn’t too bad for all he got. Check out a heaping plateful of pics over at Gamefront.net, or if this sounds like the kind of project you’d like to wrap your grubby Eleven-gloved paws on, head over to Megaupload, where notadoctoreither has conveniently left a .zip file of all the books in Oblivion along with the fonts used in his real-world tome.

While we’re on the topic, what where your favorite Oblivion tomes? We’re partial to “Palla” and “The Lusty Argonian Maid,” even if they were carried over from Morrowind.
Image credit: Gamerfront.net
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Trooper_One
September 26, 2011 at 12:27pm
This is super cool.
... I can't remember (someone attest to this?), but Baldur's Gate had plenty of in-game books and lore. If so, maybe some DYI'er should make one up too! (yea yea, I know there's plenty of fictional books out there already in that realm)
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h e x e n
September 26, 2011 at 4:15am
That's pretty beast. I could never really get into Oblivion, but this is badass.
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peteyj222
September 24, 2011 at 1:25pm
To me this sounds like something bethesda could do as either part of a big special edition or just a separately published book. from each of the eldar scrolls games there is a wealth of written matial, books, scrolls, what not. Why don't they employ a specialty publisher that can do high quality bound books and put them out for fans to buy and peruse without having to stare at their screen to read the contents. i usually skip through the books and feel guilty for doing it, but id rather keep exploring or something. but if i could have a physical book to take with me to the bathroom and read about eldar scrolls legends and history. When Stephen King was finishing up hisDark Tower series he began doing an edition through a high end pusblisher that made leather bound copies with high quality paper, Grant publishing, i think it was like Doug M. Grant. beautiful copies with full color illustrations andeverything. Or like what they did for Hitchhickers Guide, they did a leather bound compendium with gold leaf around the edges and a ribbon bookmark with bible page thin paper. and i dont want cheap ass carboard either that they can just turn out quickly.
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Brad Nimbus
September 25, 2011 at 10:26am
I've been saying this since the game first came out! Awesome bathroom book.
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Brad Nimbus
September 23, 2011 at 1:57pm
Thanks for the zip file man. That book is amazing what an awesome christmas present idea!
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silverblack
September 23, 2011 at 12:05pm
Awesome, I've been reading in-game tomes from the Elderscrolls series since at least Daggerfall. I tend to love the joke stories.
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