Unable to learn recipes from reading books

Game Talk The Garage
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I’ve got the latest version from the launcher and I’m finding it impossible to learn some recipes from books.

For example, after clearing out a school, I was able to raise my fabrication skill to 10, but when reading “101 Crafts for Beginners”, it would only say that I could not learn anything from the book, even though there were several unlearned recipes, like the one for the soda can stove. I was able to memorize the recipe by making the item from the book, as I happened to have the ingredients on me.

Is this an intended change? Or has something gone wrong with learning recipes?

2

Intended change.

3

That really bugs me; now I’ll have to haul these books everywhere with me.

4

You’ll memorize them with use.

5

I always found keeping your books nearby to be more efficient anyway. I could sometimes read for 12 in game hours at max focus and get nothing but “You failed to learn a recipe from _______.” And getting the one you actually WANT was a whole different layer of frustrating. I eventually just accepted the book pile as part of my life.