Should you sell books in Skyrim?

Selling the book won't change anything but your purse. Originally posted by BarbarianHeart: No, once you read them your skill is permanently boosted. Selling the book won't change anything but your purse.
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Should I keep or sell books in Skyrim?

None of them (Once read)

Once you have read them, they have no further bonus, and can be disposed of. Other books and writings may start quests. As @VanBuzzKill notes, quest items can't be dropped, so you don't have to worry about selling all the read books.
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What should I do with books in Skyrim?

There are Skill Books that increase your knowledge of specific Skills upon reading them. Spell Books increase your knowledge of the arcane arts; you can't learn new spells without hitting the books. Other books can even jumpstart quests.
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Are books worth anything in Skyrim?

Some quests start in books (Red Eagle's Sword) and some of them give skill increases. Other than that, yes, most of them just give you information. They're worth at least opening all the ones you can find in dungeons though. As mentioned above, the more useful books/notes start sidequests or give you skill points.
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Do I need to keep the books in Skyrim?

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Is there a reason to keeping books, or do you just sell them after you take them... what do you do with the books in Skyrim? you can buy a house upgrade it to get bookshelves and display the books for what its worth. The price of Victory is high, but so are the rewards.
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Should I take ruined books Skyrim?

Ruined books do have use but not much. You should only need a max of 4 of them. You can utilize them at the atronach forge to craft the spell tomes for soul trap, conjure flame atronach, conjure frost atronach, and conjure storm atronach. It is a great way to get these spells early.
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Can I sell books after reading Skyrim?

Books and such can also be sold after reading them for the quest/spell/etc. They've lived out their usefullness. Dragon bones and scales are used to make Dragonplate and Dragonscale armors when you get the Dragon Smithing perk..
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What items should I not sell in Skyrim?

Don't Sell Enchanted Items

While enchanted items are often very valuable - and sell for quite a lot, those who want to enchant their own Weapons and Armor should refrain from selling enchanted items when they can be disenchanted instead.
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What to sell on Skyrim?

Blacksmiths will buy and sell weapons and armor. Court mages will buy and sell staves, spell tomes and scrolls, robes, as well as soul gems. Alchemists will trade in ingredients, potions, and poisons. So you just find the matching merchant and sell to them.
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Who to sell books to in Skyrim?

There are a few ways you can sell books:
  • Urag at the College of Winterhold (which you already know about).
  • Selling books to a fence (requires some progress in the Thieves' Guild questline - fences will buy anything, even if it's stolen).
  • Getting the Merchant and Fence perks in the Speech tree.
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Do I need to keep the black books in Skyrim?

The books remain as quest items after "At the Summit of Apocrypha" and thus are permanently assigned to the inventory. Only one reward per Black Book may be active at a time. If the player wants to change it, they must re-read the Black Book where the rewarded ability or power originated from.
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What to do with too much money in Skyrim?

To better help players understand some of the best things to spend gold on in Skyrim, the following list has been updated with more entries and ideas.
  1. 10 Purchase Training Skills.
  2. 11 Purchase Enchanted Items. ...
  3. 12 Power Level The Smithing Skill. ...
  4. 13 Buy Cheap Potions Early On. ...
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What can I do with ruined books in Skyrim?

Ruined Book is a miscellaneous item in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. They cannot be read like normal books, only picked up. There are two variations that can be found. They are components needed to craft spell tomes using the atronach forge.
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Is it worth it to sell your books?

Learning how to sell used books is a great way to declutter your space and earn some extra cash for old titles you don't plan to read again. It can also be profitable to sell books, such as textbooks and old or in-demand novels so you can make money to buy new books.
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What to sell and what not to sell in Skyrim?

It's worth keeping anything you can use to make weapons, armors and accessories. Ingots and Ores, Leather and Straps, Dragon Bones and Scales, Gems and Flawless versions. Then rather than selling, Enchant them instead if you wanted to.
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Does it matter who you sell things to in Skyrim?

Answers. Until you unlock a certain speech perk they will only buy the things they sell anyway. You cannot sell a potion to a Blacksmith unless you get the speech perk. There usually is no difference in what they pay for each item.
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What is the most profitable item in Skyrim?

Here are some of the most profitable potions that you can brew using Alchemy:
  • Giant's Toe + Wheat : This potion is worth 5,050 gold 1 .
  • Giant's Toe + Creep Cluster + Wheat : This potion is worth 4,390 gold 1 .
  • Giant's Toe + Blue Mountain Flower + Wheat : This potion is worth 3,870 gold 1 .
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What makes the most money in Skyrim?

  • 16 Stealing Everything In Sight. Can Be Sold For A Tidy Sum To A Fence. ...
  • 15 Pickpocketing Everyone. Some NPCs Carry Rare Valuables And A Lot Of Gold. ...
  • 14 Modding In The Skyrim Gold Spell. ...
  • 13 Chop And Sell Firewood. ...
  • 12 Hunt Down Dragons And Sell Their Bones. ...
  • 11 Repeat Radiant Quests. ...
  • 10 Raise Speech Level. ...
  • 9 Pray To Zenithar.
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What is the best money making in Skyrim?

Use alchemy.

It is by far the best way to make money in Skyrim. From level 1, start collecting Blue Mountain Flowers and Blue Butterfly Wings. Mixing these two ingredients makes a potion that sells for 80-250 gold depending on your alchemy and speech levels.
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Who is the best person to sell things to in Skyrim?

The hands down, end all be all best merchant in the game is easily... Tonilia of the Thieves Guild. She start with 1000 gold, will buy anything off you including stolen items, and at each stage of "returning the Thieves Guild to it's former glory" she recieves an extra 1000 gold to deal with.
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Can you actually finish Skyrim?

Completing the entirety of the game itself is almost impossible, with all the side quests that seems to lead you nowhere near the end. However, beating the game is a whole different story and is actually very doable.
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Do quests expire in Skyrim?

No. Every quest in the game, every NPC involved in said quests, will quite happily wait for you forever without comment.
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Is it worth trying to sell old books?

Used Book Stores

Places like Half Price Books (or some Books-A-Million stores) will value your books and make an offer based on how much they think they can get for them. You could make a bunch of money or just a few bucks. And you can usually opt for store credit rather than cash if you prefer.
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Is it worth collecting old books?

Books can increase in value with age, certainly. The real measure of the value of a book lies in its rarity, how well known it became, and in the author who wrote it (or if it won any prizes like a Pulitzer, etc). The first edition of a title can have more value as can an author-signed book.
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How many books to read in Skyrim?

As seen in the video below, Brian David Gilbert outlines his process of reading all 337 books in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, excluding journals and diaries, while also categorizing them and ranking his top five. He states that he printed every single book out in 5.5 font, which became 571 pages of over 316,000 words.
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