# Unable to learn recipes from reading books
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-learn-recipes-from-reading-books/12057
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [June 17, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-learn-recipes-from-reading-books/12057 "2016-06-17T17:56:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@callista](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/callista)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-learn-recipes-from-reading-books/12057/1 "2016-06-17T17:56:16Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Caprice](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Caprice)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-learn-recipes-from-reading-books/12057/2 "2016-06-17T18:24:40Z")
Intended change.
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### Author:  [@callista](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/callista)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-learn-recipes-from-reading-books/12057/3 "2016-06-17T21:15:58Z")
That really bugs me; now I’ll have to haul these books everywhere with me.
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### Author:  [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2016, 7:53am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-learn-recipes-from-reading-books/12057/4 "2016-06-23T07:53:40Z")
You’ll memorize them with use.
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### Author:  [@SpadeDraco](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/SpadeDraco)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-learn-recipes-from-reading-books/12057/5 "2016-06-27T01:50:09Z")
> [@callista](#):
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> That really bugs me; now I’ll have to haul these books everywhere with me.
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.