Bookshelves

Bookshelves, ready stocked with a variety of books, are purchasable from the Carpenter Lombar Kai's shop in South Redhaven, for $3,200 each.

They can be placed in various rooms in the player's Home. In most of these rooms (but not all), they bring with them a chance that the residents of the room (if in a Private Bedroom or the Dormitory) or the entire Household (if in the Library or Office) may passively gain INTELLIGNECE, Academics, Science, Administration or Occultism (WIP) by reading books in their own time - chance and subject depending on the number of bookshelves, and where they are placed.

Rooms	Max Book Shelves	Benefits	Chance	Caps	To Whom	Notes
Private Bedrooms	2	Science OR Academics OR Intelligence OR Administration.	1% per Shelf, so 2% max.	100	Room Occupants*	Double chance if Nerd. Five times chance if Traditionalist.
Master's Bedroom	1	none	0	n/a	n/a	No benefit here currently.
The Dorms	10	Science OR Academics OR Intelligence.	0% for 2 or fewer Shelves, 1% if 3 or more Shelves.	60	Room Occupants*	Double chance if Nerd. No benefit to shelves beyond 3 currently.
Office	4	Science AND Academics AND Administration.	0% from 1 Shelf, 0.12% if 2 or 3 Shelves, 0.24% if 4 Shelves.	100	Household*	No extra benefit for Nerds.
Library	8	Science AND Academics AND Occultism (WIP).	0.12% per Shelf, so 1% max.	100	Household*	No extra benefit for Nerds.
Living Room	3	none	0	n/a	n/a	No benefit here currently.
Annex	0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Annex residents currently lose the passive education possibility they would gain by sleeping in a bedroom in the main house.
Other Rooms (Kitchen, Bathroom, News Room, Jail Cells, Training Room, Nursery)	0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	No reading books in these rooms

* Excludes NPCs unconscious or in bondage or living away from the Household, such as at the Abbey or the Arena.

Note that Mentally Challenged individuals have effectively zero chance of benefiting from Book Shelves.