Dedicated Skyrim Player Is Collecting Every Single Book in the Game
To say that The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim has quite an extensive lore is a bit like saying that Dark Souls or Cuphead can get a little bit tricky at times. As games go, many feel that Skyrim has one of the deepest lores in the open world genre, and getting into the nitty-gritty takes some degree of persistence. In fact, much of it is not something players will encounter passively, as a lot of the history and world-building exists in books. There are hundreds of tomes scattered throughout, and one fan is trying to collect them all, Pokémon-style.
In a recent post on the Skyrim subReddit, user Sk8him has sent their character on a quest to gather every single book that exists in the game. A short video they uploaded shows just how many they've managed to find so far. Scrolling down the menu in their inventory, it takes the full 21 seconds that the clip lasts for them to get to the very bottom of their list of collected books. The fact that they say in the post title that their journey is "coming along nicely" suggests that they've not finished just yet.
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Unless viewers are inclined to go through the video slowly and count how many the user has so far, it would be difficult to know how many are left for them to find. Skyrim has 337 books in total, with some players even managing to read them all. This, however, does not include all the journals, letters, and spell tomes. If they were to be included, that would be 820 pieces of literature all-together. Sk8him doesn't say whether this is the ultimate goal, but so far they say they've read all the ones in their possession, as well listening to the Skyrim audiobook podcast, which many reading
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