Check this out: writing now takes time! When you write on something, a progress bar will appear showing you how long it will take to finish writing what you're putting down. If you're interrupted while writing, you'll still put some text down... whatever you managed to finish writing up to that point. But wait! That's not all: now that you can copy and paste stuff into text fields, making copies of stuff is easier than ever. But what if there was an even easier way?

Enter the Copy action. You can scribe a copy of anything with writing on it (except skill books, those must still be crafted) by right-clicking it and clicking Copy. This is considered scribing, not writing, so it falls under the Papercraft skill. Having levels in Papercraft is hugely beneficial here: anyone can scribe a copy, but the better your Papercraft, the more accurate the copy will be, and the faster you'll produce it. But wait, there's more: you can perfectly recreate books in other languages by scribing a copy, since you're not actually reading them, just recreating them stroke-for-stroke. A master scribe can produce copies of something several times faster than the untrained, which means they could produce several copies before you've even produced one! Plus, they can make their own paper to do it with! So, while you could copy and paste stuff still, I think there's a strong incentive to use the scribing mechanic.

Now, where was I? Oh right...

You can now write your own books!!!!

And, as you may have surmised, you can now scribe copies of those books! (And other people's books, if you'd like to make bootleg copies.) The amateur novelist is alive and well in Farwoods now, whether you're producing and selling them yourself, or running a bookstore which buys them off of the game's writers (after all, writing the first copy takes the same amount of time no matter your Papercraft, so you don't need it to be a novelist) and reproduces them to fill the shelves. Oh, but that's not all... those lore books you've been collecting? You can write in them too, personalizing your copy of any book with dedications, signatures, secret notes, etc. Take a look...