Today, the books in the game were renamed to better fit my nearly finalized plan for what books are going to do. Here's the concept:
Bookshelf would be accessible somewhere, probably from your Farmhouse.
You could "read" up to 2 books (3 with a perk) per day. This would force you to decide what is the most important to you during that time. "Reading" a book would activate the book's effect and each book would have a different amount of time the effect is for. Expect perks to increase book times also.
Book of Schemas - 15 minutes - Manual Crafting would result in 4x XP gains
Book of Knots - 15 minutes - Fishing (including nets) would result in 4x XP gains
Book of Time - 5 minutes - Exploring would use 100 stamina per Continue<br/>
Book of Maps - 15 minutes - Exploring would result in 4x XP gains<br/>
Book of Clues - 5 minutes - Rare item drop rates greatly increased<br/>
Book of Insects - 15 minutes - Fishing would result in 2 or 3 fish caught at once<br/>
Book of Plants - 30 minutes - Crops harvested would have 50% of being double<br/>
Book of Skill - 30 minutes - Crops harvested would result in 4x XP gains
So that's it! Now that I'm all planned I should be able to build on Alpha in the very near future. Let me know what you think.