Libraries can be found in most towns of Arda and in some other places of
lore.
To read a book in a library, go to a library and try “look books”. If
you get a list of books then you may read their contents. For instance
in Fornost, the current list reads: >l books Since the rebuilding of
Fornost, the Librarian in charge has done her best to gather books from
near and far to resupply the once splendid library. Some of those
obtained are: Combat ====== ‘MUME Combat’ by Radorac II (TA 2853) ‘An
Introduction to MUME Combat’ by Petrel History ======= ‘Of the Fall of
the Northern Kingdom of Arnor and the Successor States’ by Quenaire of
Imladris To read a book, you need to either read <title> or view
<title> where
is given above in quotes. You need specify only the initial part of the
title which makes it unique in the library: eg read m \[reads the 1st
Book 'MUME Combat', not case sensitive\] read a \[reads the 2nd Book 'An
Introduction...' etc.\] If there's more than one book beginning with the
same word, you need to specify some entire words: for example, read the
stones \[and not 'read the st'\] Certain books are divided into
chapters: for these book, you can: read \<title\> all - Read the entire
book read \<title\> contents - Read the book's introduction and index
read \<title\> chapter \<N\> - Only read chapter N - eg: read t chapter
5 Note that books are written in a script based on the language used by
the author, so a book written by a man will probably be in Westron,
while one writen by an elf would be Sindarin or Quenya. If you have less
than 100% skill in that language, you will only be able to decipher some
of the text.
If you want to add a book of yours to a library, please read the News
board for some information, and contact a [Vala](Ainur "wikilink") in
order to receive writing guidelines.