I get unreasonably excited when I find a new letter/note. It's great to get into the minds of NPCs. Anyone else?

Also, anyone know how many different (specific) notes there are in Skyrim? Not including things like bounties of course...

Since my Khajiit is a Thief, Bard, Skooma Dealer, Con Man, and a Spy i find that Information is worth more than Flawless Diamonds, so i collect every single scrap of paper i come across

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On topic: I often find the notes, letters and journals to be rather interesting and I love to read them.

^ Nice. I feel like these letters/notes give Skyrim more life than any of the conversations I've had with NPCs.

Keep your meme to yourself

I have a bad habit of collecting as much reading material as I can...I should probably install some mods that balances destruction a bit and play my necromancer again so I can safely RP someone who is most certainly a book collector.

EDIT: @Drake Malice, then ignore it. Your response was nothing but spam as it doesn't relate at all to the topic at hand.

I was expecting something about TF2...

Anyways I love when you find notes that help tell the stories of dungeons. Or ones in the wilderness. Like the one at the camp pn the shore south of Pilgram's Trench.

I like to read them too, and it helps that they're not as long as books, which encourages me to actually read them and not just collect them for my bookshelf.

For a list of books, journals, letters, etc.: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Books_(Skyrim)#Diaries_.26_Journals

There's no doubt that the notes, letters, etc are adding MUCH to the game and it really is exciting to find a new letter, I especially love be ambushed by a gang of thugs and then after trying to spare them they will attack me and I will have no choice but to kill them and find a letter from the man who sent them... It's just really fun! But I have a problem with the Dark Brotherhood, they can send an assassin just after you exit the tutorial cave... Which means they aren't motivated by anyone and it kinda ruins the dynamic system.

That has never happened to me. How did you manage to accomplish that?

I'd like to write some letters to people,especially my wife.She gets worried when I'm gone for long.

^ Awwww.

I have a cabinet in my house just for all the notes, bounties, recipes, letters and journals I acquire. I like acquiring these mementos. Maybe I'll add an open box to put all the journals in, just for show. I've filled all my available bookshelves with every non-spell book in the game, some 340 books in all, lol.

I love reading journals and notes, they really give more to the story of a dungeon or of an NPC. I just love bits of background information. It isn't important to know the story behind a ruin or whatever but it is a nice thing to read about if you care for that sort of thing and it really helps things make sense when you are exploring if you read journals you find. I prefer that anyway to the charge through, kill everything grab the gold and go without taking the time to....... observe the place approach

I love them, I fond them to be such a great addition and yeah it's gives you a real insight into the minds of the other inhabitants of the world. Some of them are genuinely amusing as well.

Some of the best additions to the game! They're a really great touch.
I'd like to have more letters sent - imagine how awesome it would be if one of your character's friends sent them letters? Inviting them to x city for a drink, that sort of thing.

The journal based missions are probably my favorites, they can get so intense and tragic as I hope to find some of the authors alive, but I rarely do.

I also love how I might have missed a letter through all my playthroughs, for example, just the other day I found Mirabelle Ervine's letter to Wylandriah for the first time. Both a funny and sentimental discovery. Oh, and poor Wylandriah.

i collect everything made of paper

Yeah, they're indeed a very nice addition. Although I sometimes have difficulty with finding the logic behind them (or intelligence of the one who wrote it ...). Last time, I cleared a bandit camp with a secret cave, and in that cave was a diary which told about mutiny (2 actually) within the group. One of the mutiny leaders had apparently found the bandit leader's secret cave, so she nicely and clearly wrote in this diary how she moved her money and loot stash to an island not far away.

So let me get this straight. One of the mutineers discovers your cave, you replace your treasures as a result, and then you leave a diary
in that very cave which tells anyone who reads it where to find those treasures?!
No wonder there were two mutinies going on at the same time ... I wouldn't want to follow such an empty brain as a leader either.

There is a random Spawn point that can spawn the assassin close to the exit path from Helgen. I can get the opponents spawned to occasionally attack by casting Oakflesh, but they are usually not close enough to detect my character.
I like finding the treasure Maps and other notes that can lead to a quest or unique loot. I wish the Bookshelves had a way of storing notes and Journals in a pile to one side of Regular books

I love collecting notes and books and stuff like that. I don't read much but I love some of the books. Myths of Sheogorath and Breathing Water are a couple of my favourite. It get's kinda wierd when you have about 20 Dark Brotherhood notes though, I've just stopped even looting them off the bodies.

Yeah, I like notes, letters and journals too, even if they are sometimes lack logic for gameplay reasons. I hope we'll see some nice custom quests using these from modders

I think they are a nice way of adding exposition or directions but still keeping it within context. there are certainly more clumsy ways of doing it and fair play I think choosing it like this...