First, some dating advice: hanging out in the Women's Studies section of your local Border's is a great place to pick up chicks. After all, it's a small leap from being fellow book lovers to becoming fellow lovers. We recommend half a bottle of cologne, your shirt open down to your hair navel and perhaps a gold chain featuring interlocking male symbol/female symbol medallions. When you ask for her phone number, refer to the imaginary phone number she will inevitably give you as her "digits." Snap your fingers and wink after every sentence, turning even the most inane small-talk doofusism into an innuendo. Girls love that... right, Eliza?

With that said, more on girls and books: Phoenix Amon, an Oblivion modder and book lover, has created an interesting mod aiming to give every book in Oblivion a dynamically gilded cover. Some of the covers she's designed with her system are intricate, beautiful. She makes some odd comments on the universal qualities of god's greatest creatures, women, but her work is superb.

Take a hope to Guilded Lillies to read an interview and see some more screenshots of her impressive work. This small mod is already ten times better than some of the stuff Bethesda has charged two bucks a pop for. FLORIAN ECKHARDT

So Many Virtual Books: Oblivion Book Jacket Mod [Guilded Lillies]

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