This is the best mod for reading and books, I hope you continue it as the game develops.

not yet

are there dvds or vhs tapes besides the learning to read book?

does this work in b42?

Are you currently planning to update this mod to B42?

b41 im not sure if its a mod bug but im having constant literacy +1 even if im maxed out, gaining 0.30 xp, this is breaking the trait purchase system because it cheats the progress

@albion Any ideas on why? im running V41 still and its the only mod i have and its turned on...

if you don't see the skill at all the mod is not working

if i dont see the literacy skill listed does that mean the mod isnt working? or do i need the magazine first to show that skill?

it doesn't sound like that's going to be an issue in b42 either way - though if b42's changes turn out well i may remove the 'learn to read' portion of the mod entirely

Not so sure if replacing the magazine with a VHS tape would be a good idea if the goal is to prevent the "Illiterate" trait from acting like a permanent disability. An illiterate character, who does not pick engineer, after the power is shut off, would never be able to watch the tape, since you need to read the generator magazine to operate a generator and get power to watch tapes.

I am 100% sure since i have only really found Aiming book 2, but barely can find the other ones. But i did download a mod which adds trait magazines, maybe it could be that one causing the issue?

@ACHERONTIA the learn to read magazine will be replaced with a vhs in a future update, likely sometime during b42

@Alan Harper vhs tapes that give a skill boost (acting exactly like skill books do) are planned to come along with that update (alongside an overall nerf to xp gain to compensate)

@Pifilix.SVK all skill books are intended to have exactly the same rarity, if the aiming books really aren't spawning that may be a bug - make sure you have the sandbox option for gun books enabled

I can confirm @R4skall soft incompatability.

Not sure but is aiming skill books intended to be super rare to find? Been struggling to find a single one of them

found a soft incompatability with an extrordinairiliy organized literature mod, you cant read more then one page if you have the flag as read module turned on

I think it would also be interesting if there were grammar books and writing practice books to boost the literacy skill

@ACHERONTIA this is a fair point, how can someone learn to read by reading?

wouldn't it be cool if we get a VHS instead a magazine to learn how to read?

1.3.0
-Safe Mode removed
-Fixed distribution sandbox options not applying in most situations
-Removed dependency on Item Tweaker and Profession Framework
-Fixed Literacy level not rendering in character creation.
-Fixed some (harmless) warnings on the server about unknown traits
-General performance improvements.
-Replaced any globals created by this mod with modules. If your mod hooks into this one it may need to be updated for compatibility. I don't think any mods are actually affected though.
- May help with issues with the literacy magazine not removing the illiterate trait.

thank you very much :3

@grogcito load order should have no effect on the execution of this mod as it does not use file overrides

@Milenier/TTV #fixtf2 there is an issue with spawning generally, in most cases your settings are ignored - i was waiting for the mod's next major update to release the fix, but given that that's been waiting for around two years now, i may just cobble together some misc fixes into a small update soon and wait until after b42 releases for the actual content update

the mod must be placed after item tweaker and profession framework to get rid of the illiterate trait , in the server.ini file.
I had the same issue and that fixed it. You'll need to create a new character if you've already red the magazine though.

I have weird ah issue.
Got all the books checked to spawn, however they had only spawned in the spawn area (that being muldraugh trailer park). in that save file I have looted 6 major book spawn areas only to find maintenance (only weapons book) and agility books to spawn (other then base books).

the places I checked and found none of the books as per mentioned above: Muldraugh bookstore, Muldraugh School, Rosewood Bookstore, Westpoint book store, Westpoint mail office, Westpoint school.

could there be an issue on how the game decides which books to spawn and where?

I made a character with the illiterate trait but after reading Learn to Read I still couldn't read any books.

Having an issue with the Learn To Read Magazine not working on MP. I have Has Been Read and An Exhilaratingly Organized Literature Mod

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2071347174
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2544353492

Wondering if either or both of these are conflicting with this mod. Any ideas?

read a book to read a book ahh mod

oh you are a genius

Nice mod, I use this with ETW for zero to hero runs. I was hoping you could still keep the magazine spawning along with the VHS tape you're planning to add in your next update. Otherwise illiterate characters won't be able to set up a tv with VHS once the power goes out since they can't read the generator mag

I see , can you please also implement an setting to change reading speed for the books and magazine apart , since with 2x speed , the magazines or books that increase the modd are being read instantly.

Ah, unfortunate but now I know. Thanks-

@E̵ĺ̶̎ Ḡ̵͠a̷t̶ö̵ yeah, unfixable dynamic traits incompatibility
@Mustang no, but this has been implemented for the next update

Whenever I try reading a strength/fitness book, the multiplier lasts only a few seconds before disappearing. I read somewhere maybe Dynamic Traits mod screws with it but I'm unsure.

Hmm not sure , but does this mode have a bonus when you are sitting? (like on the chair/sofa) - the other one had like a 10% speed boost , would be nice to have one here if it doesn't have one.

yeah

Does this work with True Actions (sit on couch/chair?)

Update, as I made a backup this time, I had "Walk while reading" not cat's which also causes the issue. "Read faster while sitting" is fine

Is there a list of incompatible mods? I read something about cat's walk while reading, but I just spend 12 days to finally find the magazine in Riverside's boat club but I didn't lose illiterate.

I restarted a run without cat's move while reading, though I did ad an alternative. Perhaps it doesn't work with dynamic traits?

I enjoy the mod btw! :)

Also, as a separate topic, and as a suggestion for potential consideration, would there by any interest in adding a trait called something like, "Skilled Reader," as essentially a new skill to represent the opposite side of your new "Poor Reader" trait?
It could give the opposite effect of Poor Reader, and give a +10% boost to the skill book boost multiplier.
(For example, that would turn a 3x boost from a Rank 1 book into 3.3x, and would turn a 16x boost from a Rank 5 book into 17.6x.)
It could cost 2 points, or more depending upon your balance vision, and I think should only be acquirable at character creation, but not at any point after.
I think it could be an interesting flip side to the Poor Reader trait, but I'm not sure whether it's within your balancing vision or not, so no worries if not!

I'm not sure if this will be of interest to the author, but I've noted a soft conflict between this mod and the profession / trait rework mod below.
The mod linked below reworks Fast / Slow Reader to each hold a cost of 1 (+/-) rather than the default 2.
The conflict between these mods is that the two traits take on the cost of 1 from the mod below, but otherwise still seem to interact with the literacy skill as intended in increasing / decreasing the initial skill level in Literacy, based upon having either of those traits.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2840805724

Can we lose poor reader / slow reader?

there's a workaround for this, the rest of the update just isn't ready to release yet

It seems that when it loads a save, Zomboid builds the spawn lists for items before it loads the sandbox settings. As a result, no matter what you change this mod's skill book spawn options to in the sandbox settings, the spawn lists get populated with this mod's skill books based on the defaults whenever you load your save.

One way I can think of to work around this could be to make it that, instead of controlling skill books spawns via sandbox settings, control it by having each category of skill book in a separate sub-mod, and then we could enable the sub-mods for the skill book categories we want.

anyone not seeing the skill pop up when they host?

cat's mods are not written with compatibility in mind, you can get faster reading using this mod's sandbox options and there is an alternative walk while reading mod by star (this will also be a feature in the next update)

For people who read the magazine and still have the illiterate trait after, I think I found an incompatibility with Cat's reading mods. I had one of the mod activated while I had the Learn to read magazine and I still had the illiterate trait after. I made another chatacter and deactivated Cat's reading mod and after reading the Learn to read magazine, the illiterate trait disapeared and I finally could read.

This mod is unfortunately not being updated, so check out for mods incompatibility. If you have any other book or reading mods, there might be a problem right there.

Not working.. read only the first page and stops of the learn to read book

instead of magazine make it VHS, it have more sense to learn by watching for person that can't read, It will be perfect as some kind of kid show about alphabet

The "learn to read" magazine doesn't let me read it. There's just no "read" option in the context menu :( I hope that can get fixed but thank you so much for the mod anyways! I've used it a ton!