[NEEDS INPUT] 'Read To Children' interaction disappears on certain books

@crinrict Yes, it is a bug, because it didn't come from anywhere else. Pretty sure it came with the bookcase that was on the lot when I bought it.

You should also try reading them to children, since sometimes after reading them to childen, they become unreadable again. Not because they're tense or bored, the option just disappears.

@KatastrophicSim If they do, can put them in your inventory or do they suddenly show as unowned for you ?

EDIT: I've now read about 10 books to the child in your house and none of them lost the ability to be read again later.

@crinrict Yeah, the sim put it in his inventory I think to go do something else, thats when I clicked on it and suddenly the option wasn't availiable anymore. I put in in the bookcaaaase and on the floooor but nothing brought back the function so I just picked a different book. Perhaps since you only found one book that didn't work, the process of saving and exiting / reloading fixed it.

It must be a real rare bug then. It definitely 100% happened. (Not to be confused with it happens 100% of the time).

@KatastrophicSim Somewhere else as travelling to another lot ?

To me sounds there's two issues you're seeing:

1. Not owed books can't be read to children (happens at libraries and on vacation). This is totally inconsistent cause you can read toddlers book just fine as well as adult books that don't belong to you. I do think it might have something to do with the way the interactions appears (only in inventory) while toddler books can be read from the bookcase itself.

I don't know if this is considered a bug by the devs or not.

2. Books becoming unowned for whatever reason. That def shouldn't happen but it would be good to know what interactions leads to that state. Moving houses could be a reason (cause moving and inventory have multiple issues). Maybe travelling with books in your inventory ?

So, bottom line, if you can find out what exactly makes them unowned for you, that would be great info and if you can also confirm that the are infact unowned (the put into inventory interaction will be greyed out and tool tip blabla doesn't own the book will appear) when you can't read them anymore, that would also be interesting info.

Not trying to give you a hard time here, just trying to figure out with what we're dealing here and what could be causing it (especially as I wasn't able to duplicate the second issue)

Going to mark this as needs input for now (for the second issue) to see if anyone else has issue with the read to interaction dropping from books. (Issue Nr. 2).

For the first one, I'll try get some official info

@crinrict Again, there's no reason for the books to be unowned in the first place. This makes it a bug.

I've already told you exactly what happened. I can't tell you more becaure there isss nooo moreee. He read to the child, finished, put the book in his inventory, then it wasn't readble to children again. I didn't suddenly move house or go on an outing or anything.
The option wasn't greyed out either, it just didn't exist.
After I finished my play session, saved and exited and returned later, the book was readable again.

I'm the same as you too, I can't duplicate the second issue either. If it happens again I'll be sure to get screenshots or something but it seems like a really rare one-time issue.

I feel like these bugs wouldn't even be bugs if EA just let all books be read to children in the first place, no matter where they come from.

@KatastrophicSim I meant the put into inventory option is greyed out, not the read to children.

As said, I'm trying to get some info on the fact that you can't read unowned books as I do find it inconsistent with toddler books

The other issue you are having I haven't been able to duplicate which is why it would be good to have others that have that say so.

Not much more I can do anyways but I've tagged and forwarded and I hope some other people chime in.

@crinrict Well for the first issue I'm pretty sure I'm able to put it in the inventory, but for the second I wouldn't know since he put it in his inventory automatically after finishing.

Just to clarify or anyone new without reading everything - cant' read to children, not can't read at all.

Thanks anyway. Hope someone can mod all books to be readable to children since EA can't be bothered.

@MeltingPenguins It's okay, you can also buy a new book instead of a whole bookcase lmao. You still won't be able to read the other ones but at least you have one to read.

@MeltingPenguins Did the book become unowned for you ? Do you still have a save from before you sold everything ?

@MeltingPenguins Yeah, would need one from before. I take it the automatic backups are also already overwritten ?