Book Case

[julie2]

This item is desperately needed for Canrtian Libraries. At present , the only way to organise notes is by stuffing them into an envelope, which then has to be picked up and emptied before the notes can be read. This is very time-consuming. So is stuffing them back in again, afterwards.

A book-case, as I envisage it, would function in a similar way to an envelope, with certain important differences:

1). You can't pick it up, but you CAN view the titlesof the contents without picking it up.

2. YOu can read the notes therein without actually taking them into your inventory, just like notes which are stored on the ground. You only have to click on a title to read it. This would save time, when somebody wants to scan a lot of notes. It could also help with prevention of theft.

3. Nice but not absolutely necessary- it would be good if a bookcase could have several shelves, which can each be given a different title.

[julie2]

Another thought- the option of chaining a note to the bookcase, so it can't be stolen, would be handy too.

[wichita]

Good idea. As long as we can't dispose of all those notes, we may as well come up with a quick way to organize them.

[kinvoya]

You win the invention of the year award! This totally has to be made available.

Since some areas don't have much wood maybe there could be different sizes of bookshelves or some made out of other materials like....um...stone or hmmm.....potatoes!

[NetherSpawn]

I like this proposal. It's sensible.
Although, aren't there already stationary containers that ought to do basically what you describe that can hold anything? I don't know if they work, mind you, but if they do a bookcase is just a more limited version of one of those. The shelves idea is a nice one, and some method by which notes can be read but not taken is a good thing, if a little illogical.

[Nick]

Another thought- the option of chaining a note to the bookcase, so it can't be stolen, would be handy too.

Chaining a note to a bookcase? Doesn't seem quite realistic to me.

[julie2]

Another thought- the option of chaining a note to the bookcase, so it can't be stolen, would be handy too.

Chaining a note to a bookcase? Doesn't seem quite realistic to me.

Not if a note is just...well...a note, but taking "note" as a generic term which inludes all Cantrian books, yep, I thnk it's realistic to chain a valuable book to a shelf, cosidering that IRL the Post Office even goes so far as to chain cheap biros to it's counters to prevent theft.

[Nixit]

Maybe not a chain, although I have heard of that, but having glass blocking the notes, with a lock... and... yeah.

[nitefyre]

Maybe not a chain, although I have heard of that, but having glass blocking the notes, with a lock... and... yeah.

But couldn't just about any tool you can think of smash right through that?

Okay, maybe not a bone needle...but stone hammer, sledgehammer, crowbar, bone club...etc.

[Nixit]

Hmm... good point. A chain would work then, and maybe with a file you could attempt to break it off, and a key would unlock it.

[Nick]

It still sounds more than a little stupid to chain a note. A piece of metal, through a piece of paper? No. An alternative can be thought up. This isn't a good idea.

[Nixit]

Alright. You get a collection of notes... make them a "book" and then chain it. Maybe it is some leather or cotton or something for the binding.

[nitefyre]

Well, one could just rip out the note of the book.

[Nick]

Well, one could just rip out the note of the book.

Precisely.

[Lumin]

Come on now, you could just as easily argue that a person could rip a note in half. And is glass in Cantr even breakable?

Personally I'd love it if more of the furniture had an actual use, and while it doesn't matter much to me whether you can chain a note down or not, I don't see why strict realism is suddenly taking so much precedence over game balance.

I mean, if we want notes to be treated so realistically, chars should have to gather wood, shred it, treat it with chemicals, boil it, and then make ink and a writing implement before even being allowed to write one.