I personally would love to be able to read in realtime, and move around with the book. If you would like to comment, please do so!
EDIT: Why not have the AI react to what you are reading? Reading the lusty argonian maid in a church? Get yelled at! Reading how to pick a lock in a guard tower? Get interrogated. It adds a new premise to the game. It would be wonderful.

Umm how easy would it be to read and walk, it's one or the other

I voted for moving while reading. I do it in real life, why not in Skyrim?

I don't know about you, but when I try to walk while reading I walk into things.

On the other hand, the world still going by as I sit and read would be a nice touch. Anything stopping time is pretty un-immersive, and while I can accept that for the menu and so on as they're already a significant abstraction from reality, reading is too far.

Whenever I buy my kids a book or magazine, I have to tell them off for trying to read walking down the street, and there aren't even any trolls in our town.

Reading and walking would be cool. Equip a book to one hand, and a lamp to the other! Read in the dark!

I don′t see the use really, just being able to read the text in books is fancy enough, no need to waste developing time on stuff like this

It's hard to read and walk. I read everyday on my commute. When I'm walking, I'm not reading. I only read when sitting on the bus or subway.

It's also really trivial.

"Yes. I want to be able to carry the book in one or two hands and be able to read while walking, and sit down and read."

This. Definitely.

On the one hand, I'd find it somewhat annoying to have potentially interesting events going on around me while I was reading.

Yet on the other hand, I often read in-game with the underlying thought that I'm doing something to pass the time, and it would be nice if the world did represent that. Depending on the situation, simulating time-passage could be nonsensical, so I'll go along with the desire to see in-game reading realtime. And as to my annoyance above, that'll just teach me to pull out the Lusty Argonian Maid whilst I'm in the middle of a dark crypt.

Or how'bout being able to read in combat? You could just equip your book like a shield :laugh: I can already see it now, swinging your sword and flipping pages as you fight the evil creatures of the north.

It would be cool if you could walk around with your book in third person and then zoom in by going to first person... but... I think Bethesda should spend their time making Flails, so it ain't high on my list...

That's a really good way to make sure you have to use glasses in the future. Constantly refocusing your glance tires out the muscles that manipulate the size of the lenses in your eyes.

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On topic, you will have to go into the inventory, thus pausing the game, as the books will be 3d rendered in it, with page turning animations.

Unless books became equippable items to be used realtime, like binoculars in FONV. I don't expect it to happen that way, of course. I just think it'd be cool.

It would be cool if you could "Equip" books to a hand, (Flip pages by clicking), and read them by looking at the book in 1st person when it's "Drawn". That way, time passes, you can look around instead of at the pages when neccessary, and, if you're the Badass Preacher or Scholar type, you can have it open while your kicking ass, so you can find and read out the most badass quote from the page.


... has it been confirmed Skyrim will be using "Depth of Field"? I hope not because it's annoying and unrealistic. We're already looking through a "Depth of Field" display, and having a computer monitor try to double-up on that is a pain in the ass.

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This guy agrees.

I′ve been reading The Lengend of Drizzt Do′Urden / The Hunter′s Blades / The Sellswords, recently on my way to and home from school, I start reading when I leave the house and only stop reading when I′ve reached the bus station when I enter the bus, I read on the bus and I read on my way after I reach the closest bus shelter to school.

And what have I found out ? That if you practice you become better and better at keeping the book still while you walk and you start walking in a way so that you don′t bump around much, it was a pain to start with like anything you learn is a pain at first but now after doing this for half a year I can do it with relative ease.

So maybe your character could read more easily if he had some skill or a high stat in something like agility maybe ? But it is possible with practice.

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D: Are you for real ? Like really O.o ? Since I got my first pair of glasses just this month because my eyesight has been getting worse, reading while taking walks can′t be that bad can they O.o ? I′m just talking about maybe 10 mins to reach the bus station, 10 mins from bus shelter to school, 10 mins back to the bus shelter from school and then lastly 10 mins from bus station to home.

That could be a leading cause for my recent need for glasses ?

I don't understand why anyone would want pause menu reading.

Do some people believe that all books hold the power to stop time?

This would be cool, read a book while mindlessly traveling the wastes of Skyrim. How would you turn the page though? Would you press RB? (x box) I don't know but all I know is that is would be nice to see.

Umm, must be easier than reading and driving, which I've seen too many times :scared:

Since time doesn't matter in most of the game, it really doesn't matter to me :shrug:

Just means that when I steal the books, I have to take them home to read.

Yeah, moving around in real-time reading! I want to dual wield a mace in my right hand, a book in my left, and read while fighting a dragon! :facepalm:

No, I like the pause menu reading.

YES!.. YES