Bookcases are still bugged. The funny thing is they worked fine for me until patch 1.2, is that when everyone else started having this problem? Mannequins invisiblle still too, but performance does seem a bit better.

They most likely created the bookshelf glitch as a temporary fix for the Oghma Infinium glitch, which would allow the player to reach max level (81) after around 45-60 minutes of performing the glitch.

~personal experience :3

That's what I think as well, however I think a lot of people are misunderstanding what was fixed.


Only the script error that made the books disappear and lock up was fixed.



If you have a glitched house with broken (from the start) bookcases or weapon racks, they will still be broken. If you could not access the bookcase in the first place, you still will not be able to.


From my personal experiences with all the houses, you have to save your game right before you buy and then purchase the house, check it for working racks and if it's a no go, you reload and try again. I had to do this with several houses especially annoying with my solitude house which took 5 or more tries to get a working house.

After all the reloading involved, I do have a working version of all the houses on my main char. The broken saves never worked in all the times i tried to reload them, So in my experience, once broken, always broken. Reload till you get a good one.

I don't even know what the Oghma Infinium glitch is and my bookshelf is not working

before 1.2 when you had bookshelves that actually worked, you could put book in them. After 1.2 if you put them in, they ended up disappearing or just locking up. They changed something in them and a lot of people think it was because of an exploit involving that named book.



They fixed that script error supposedly in 1.3. However if your shelves don't work at all in the first place, that isn't going to change. You need to have working shelves in the first place.

Hmm, I see, so they broke the bookshelves in an attempt to fix a glitch that allowed people to level up infinitely.


I was one of the people with perfectly fine, working bookshelves and weapon racks in White-run. then I noticed my bookshelf would only duplicate books, but not actually allow me to remove them.
Then it wiped out a whole group of books i tried to store on the bottom shelf

And now it just doesn't respond. And is completely broken / useless.

so i avoid touching my other bookshelf in fear of losing those books as well.

Same here, mine are completely broken too. I've resorted to storing my books in an end table now instead.

the patch broke all of my remaining working bookshelves, I use Vlindral Hall as my house. 6 of my 9 shelves worked on 1.2 and now they are all broken. I can read and take them but I cannot activate the bookshelf at all.

I had one shelf that was broke and still is but the other 3 in breezehome I can access. I took all the books out and will just store them until I get a new house. Seems like the game is smoother now just by running around whiterun and selling crap.

Did they ever work?


If they never gave you the option, they will never work. They didn't fix that. They only fixed the ones that actually were capable of storing books in the first place.

I just downloaded the patch and my bookshelf is working

They are working fine if you delete game data and all save data, reinstal game and start a new charactor. If you don't want to do that then don't complain that they are broken cause they are not.

Not true.


You don't need to start a new character at all. Mine fixed just fine.


The problem I am quite certain is that people are not understanding that there are two seperate types of bookcase issues. One where they never worked in the first place and one where they work but when you put books in, they mess up.

The latter is what they fixed.
Once your save file is messed up, it's done for I think. The shelves that never had books on them will work now, but if you have stuck books, they may still be broken.

There are 4 shelves that you can use in beezlehome? I thought there were only two shelves? At least on my version. I am talking about the bookshelf (with the two shelves) near the front door.

Yes, there is another bookcase in alchemy table room with 2 shelves.

Ok. I think that one is broken for me from the start. Same with the weapons rack.