Where can I find books In adventure mode?

[Ambivalentwriting]

I want to do some Ptolemic shenanigans with my adventurer, stealing every book they find outside their home kingdom to bring them back to the library in the capital.

were can I likely find books? Apart from other libraries is there any place such as keeps, bookshops, etc?

[Fel]

Many necromancer towers have books if the world is a bit old.
I believe some of the castles where leaders are can sometimes have some as well but I'm not certain on that one.

[Ness]

Originally posted by Ambivalentwriting:

I want to do some Ptolemic shenanigans with my adventurer, stealing every book they find outside their home kingdom to bring them back to the library in the capital.

were can I likely find books? Apart from other libraries is there any place such as keeps, bookshops, etc?

Highlighting locations should show the artifacts available. If you need to know what each are before, you can check legends (you can even track down where exactly they are at any time using legends). I do it all the time.

You can also set up a good library with enough writing materials and scholars and scribes assigned to it and your dwarves will start writing their own. You can even have them make copies, just be careful of thieves. Keeping the library open will invite visiting scholars who will sometimes write a new book for you but they also sometimes take books for themselves.

[Ambivalentwriting]

Thank you, sadly I was asking about adventure mode.

[Erei]

The most obvious is inside a library. They can be built in town (not hamlet). Best to check in legends to see if the town you want to go to have a library (and what's the name, to find it better).
Also using legends, you can find scattered book, stolen by monsters. But it's more tricky.
As mentioned, necromancer tower are an OK source of book.

[Ness]

Originally posted by Ambivalentwriting:

Thank you, sadly I was asking about adventure mode.

Legends is usable, you guessed it, in both modes.

[Ambivalentwriting]

My question wasn't about where is the location of the site with books but of what kind of site contain books so that I can look for them in legend mode.

[Erei]

It was answered already. Libraries and necromancer tower. Libraries because, well, obviously. Necromancer tower because it's filled with scholars who write books and they have the "secret of life and death" which they like to write about.
Necromancer tower are separate to search for, while libraries are part of town and dwarf fortresses/mountainhome.
After that it's complicated. Books are also stolen or carried by scholars, so they can end up pretty much everywhere. Monster lair who kill their owner, kobolds who stole it.....

[Ambivalentwriting]

Libraries and towers are the two most obvious places, but ones I already said I knew about. That said my previous comment was an answer to Ness advice to set up a good library so that my fortress inhabitants write something.

Two more I discovered lately is that book can be found in keeps inside cities, monasteries and caste on the map in the central part (not the towers).

[Ness]

Originally posted by Ambivalentwriting:

Libraries and towers are the two most obvious places, but ones I already said I knew about. That said my previous comment was an answer to Ness advice to set up a good library so that my fortress inhabitants write something.

Two more I discovered lately is that book can be found in keeps inside cities, monasteries and caste on the map in the central part (not the towers).

Library forts are my favorite. I can't wait until they flesh that out a bit more.

[Ambivalentwriting]

Me too, it's so great, bit weird how making copies of books and then selling barely make you money, books making and copying is labour intensive and they were worth a fortune back then.

[Ness]

Originally posted by Ambivalentwriting:

Me too, it's so great, bit weird how making copies of books and then selling is barely make you money, books making and copying is labour intensive and they were worth a fortune back then.

II don't even sell them, I horde them and steal every book I can. They are my personal treasure. Thieves are prosecuted to fullest extent of dwarven law.