sorry for accidentally deleting your comment (clumsy phone hand) but thankfully i had it saved!!

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> Give the books genres and you can take traits at the beginning that boost your stat gain when reading books that fall under your favorite genre (and an increased chance they'll become a favorite.) You could also choose "negative" traits that makes it so your character dislikes certain genres and gets penalties for reading them. Perhaps a more severe negative trait where they "hate" a genre, and cannot benefit from those books, or get severely reduced results.
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> Expanding on this, you could have it so they dislike newspapers, crosswords, and/or magazines with the same effect as above.

I've been doing not zomboid things but i know ill catch the zombie bug again at some point, and those are cool ideas so I'll keep them in mind when i do!!

I'd love to see an option to set infinite reads, with the far end of the happiness recovery stat arc being relatively low. This accounts for the idea of "favorite books I have read 50 million times."

Would be equally cool if there's a chance when reading a book that it will become a "favorite" of the character that will, from that point forward, give enhanced stat recovery even when the bell curve has hit its far end low.

One could set a maximum number of favorites a character could have.

Hey, this is cool!