Pre-War book (Fallout 3)

A pre-War book is a book that has not been destroyed, burned, or otherwise rendered unreadable. It is a fairly rare miscellaneous item.
==Characteristics==
Pre-War books in the Capital Wasteland come in two different versions, green and rare blue. Aside from use as Rock-It Launcher ammunition, the green books are desired by the Brotherhood of Steel. Specifically, the Brotherhood Scribe Yearling, located within the Arlington Library, who will give 10 XP and 100 bottle caps per book for contributing these to their archives.
==Variants==
* Rare blue
* Green
==Locations==
===Rare blue===
The rare blue version (PreWarBook) does not appear in any base game locations, but it does appear three times in Broken Steel and once in Point Lookout.
Location 	Amount 	Description
Broken Steel 	Broken Steel 	Broken Steel
Jefferson Memorial Museum and Gift Shop 	2 	After the Brotherhood of Steel takes control of the memorial, 1 is on the small desk to the right of the safe, and 1 is in the open locker to the left of the safe.
Abandoned barn northwest of the Montgomery County Reservoir	1 	On an Aqua Pura drum in the barn loft.
Point Lookout 	Point Lookout	Point Lookout
Marcella's tent 	1 	On the desk, by the terminal.
* Sold by hunters, scavengers, and merchants; Michael Masters usually has two in his inventory should you help Roy Phillips and the ghouls take over Tenpenny Tower.
* Sometimes found on bodies of abominations on Mothership Zeta.
===Green===
The green version (BookGeneric01) appears 98 times in the base game, and 3 times in Point Lookout.
Location 	Amount 	Description
Alexandria Arms 	1 	In the large room upstairs, atop an L-shaped counter along the northern wall of the room. The room is east from the entrance through a set of double doors.
Arlington Library 	10 	3 in the Lobby, 5 in the Children's Wing, and 2 in the media archives.
Anchorage Memorial 	3 	3 in the utility room.
Bethesda ruins 	2 	Only room on the second floor of the Bethesda Offices West, on top of the filing cabinets to the west.
Calverton 	1 	In a house with a scavenger and his dog, far east of the main town area. The house can be found by following the power lines east past the aforementioned truck, a billboard, and a series of small shacks just before reaching a large power pylon. The book is on a table to the right of a couch under a small scorched book, and it must be stolen.
The Capitol Building 	1 	In the East Entrance section on the fallen cabinet next to the desk with the Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor on it.
Charnel house 	2 	NW in a mined ruined house with sandbags, occupied by a scavenger.
Chryslus Building 	1 	Room above the building basement doorway
Cliffside cavern 	1 	Towards the northwest chamber inside of a tent on a small round table. There will also be a mini nuke in the same tent. The location is where the raider with a missile launcher is at.
Clifftop shacks 	1 	In the abandoned shack east of the bridge.
Dupont Circle 	1 	On a bookcase in an abandoned house guarded by raiders. Northwest of Dupont East and south of Dupont Northeast.
Farragut West station 	3 	Inside an Average locked storeroom near the Tenleytown/Friendship station exit.
Fort Constantine 	3 	2 in CO Quarters, 1 in the Launch Control Bunker.
Franklin Metro utility 	3 	2 in the upstairs part of the first room (go through the whole level to get there). 1 in Falls Church/Mason Dst Metro inside the diner on the upper right corner table.
Germantown Police HQ 	1 	In the cell block next to the computer where Red is locked up.
Hubris Comics 	2 	1 in the Publishing, 1 in Printing.
L.O.B. Enterprises 	2 	East wing
Mama Dolce's 	2 	One is in the food distribution area, on an upper level next to a terminal. The second book can be found on/under a small table in the upper level in the southeast portion of the processed foods area.
Megaton 	4 	Inside Billy Creel's house (must be stolen).
Minefield 	9 	Inside the houses.
National Archives 	5 	In the National Archives section on bookshelves. 1 on main floor, 4 downstairs from that.
National Guard depot 	6 	2 in the entrance zone, 1 in the Training Wing, and 3 more in the Depot Offices.
Oasis 	1 	After entering the Sunken Chambers, walk until the left turn, do so, and continue forward until reaching a table with a blue trunk on the ground to the right. The book in on the top of the trunk next to a box of darts.
Our Lady of Hope Hospital 	1 	On the western curved counter in the large waiting room area.
Paradise Falls 	1 	Slave house, on a table.
Pylon shack 	1 	On the northeastern pylon footing.
Raider fort southwest of the Temple of the Union	1 	On a table in the open shack. Appears after finishing Head of State and The Waters of Life.
Republic of Dave 	2 	In the Museum of Dave, must be stolen.
RobCo facility 	3 	One in the shelves behind reception desk, one around the computers in the control room (near the Big Book of Science), and one in the mainframe room.
Roosevelt Academy 	3 	1 in the Headmaster's Office on a desk. 1 in the northern room of Roosevelt Arts and Athletics Hall on the ground floor. 1 in A wanderer's 'home': a raised wooden platform with a bed and table. To find it, go one grid square to the east from the Roosevelt Academy. There is an explosive chain of cars lined up on the road. A bus sits on the north end where the road crests. Northeast of this visual landmark is the platform.
Sewer waystation 	4 	2 are in the County sewer mainline in a room in which Gallo the ghoul has an ambush, the books are next to the bed; 2 are in a big three-floored room next to a computer terminal, behind a locked gate.
Signal Alfa Lima 	1 	Near broadcast tower KB5.
Signal Oscar Tango 	1 	South of the Jury Street Metro station.
Signal Oscar Zulu 	1 	Southeast of Relay tower KX-B8-11.
Signal Papa November 	1 	West of the charnel house.
Signal Sierra Romeo 	2 	Near the broadcast tower KT8, in the room with the computer terminals.
Sniper shack 	1 	Sniper shack, west of Rockbreaker's Last Gas. On the table to the left of the locker that contains the Victory rifle.
Temple of the Union 	1 	On Caleb's bed
Tepid sewers 	2 	One in the locked storage room (opened via a terminal or Rocksalt's key) underneath some other books in a box, and one in the raider's sleeping quarters on top of the bookshelves.
Vault 92 	5 	One on a table in the main entrance area; one on a shelf in the overseer's office; and three scattered around the sound testing labs.
Vault 106 	2 	In a cabinet in the same room as Nikola Tesla and You book.
Vault-Tec headquarters 	1 	On top of a garbage can next to a safe in the corporate offices.
Yao guai tunnels 	1 	On the table by the entrance.
Point Lookout 	Point Lookout	Point Lookout
St. Aubin medical facility 	3 	Found on the same desk in a side room of the corridor in Professor Calvert's Lab.
==Related quests==
* Yearning for Learning - green version only.
==Notes==
* Senior Scribe Yearling may sometimes not accept books from a location other than Arlington Library.
* Crazy Wolfgang and a few other vendors may sell "false" pre-War books. Once having fully invested in his inventory, Wolfgang will begin to carry them. Books that can be turned in have a value of 1, a green cover, and show a special "Book" icon, while Wolfgang's books have a value of 5, a blue cover, and appear with the "Junk" icon in the inventory (not stacking with the regular ones). These "false" pre-War books can be found throughout the Wasteland, Point Lookout, and Mothership Zeta as well.
* A blue and a green pre-War book can be found in the Operation: Anchorage add-on. Neither can be added to one's inventory.
==Gallery==
Fo3 prewar book AA.jpg|Alexandria Arms
Fo3 prewar book AM facility.jpg|Anchorage Memorial, facility
Fo3 prewar book APL lobby1.jpg|Arlington Library, lobby
Fo3 prewar book APL lobby2.jpg|Arlington Library, lobby
Guns and Bullets Arlington Library.jpg|Arlington Library, children's wing
Fo3 prewar book APL cw1.jpg|Arlington Library, children's wing
Fo3 prewar book APL cw2.jpg|Arlington library, children's wing
Fo3 prewar book APL ma1.jpg|Arlington Library, media archive
Fo3 prewar book APL ma2.jpg|Arlington Library, media archive
Fo3 prewar book Benson house1.jpg|Benson house
Fo3 prewar book Benson house2.jpg|Benson house
Fo3 prewar book BO west.jpg|Bethesda ruins, offices west
Billy Creel's house Song of the Lightman.jpg|Billy Creel's house
Billy Creel's house The Guardians of Gillyfrond.jpg|Billy Creel's house
Alfa Lima Pre-War book.jpg|Broadcast tower KB5, drainage chamber
Fo3 prewar book BT KT8.jpg|Two in Broadcast tower KT8's drainage chamber
Calebhouse.jpg|Caleb's home
Fo3 prewar book south of Calverton.jpg|South of Calverton
Fo3 Tales of a JJV Capitol Building.jpg|The Capitol Building, East entrance
Fo3 prewar book north of CH.jpg|North of Charnel house
Fo3 prewar book CB lo.jpg|Chryslus Building, lower offices
Fo3 prewar book clifftop shacks north.jpg|Clifftop shacks
County sewer mainline Big Book of Science & Pre-War books.jpg|County sewer mainline
Fo3 prewar book CSM Gallo.jpg|County sewer mainline, Gallo's room
Fo3 prewar book Dupont Circle.jpg|Dupont Circle
Fo3 prewar book FC MDM.jpg|Falls Church/Mason Dst Metro
Fo3 prewar book FWS.jpg|Farragut West station
Ft. Constantine CO quarters Guns and bullets.jpg|Fort Constantine, CO quarters
Fo3 prewar book FC co.jpg||Fort Constantine, CO quarters
Fo3 prewar book FC LCB.jpg||Fort Constantine, launch control bunker
Fo3 prewar book FMU.jpg|Franklin Metro utility
Fo3 prewar book GP HQ.jpg|Germantown police HQ, ground floor
Fo3 prewar book Gibson house1.jpg|Gibson house
Fo3 prewar book Gibson house2.jpg|Gibson house
Fo3 prewar book Gibson house3.jpg|Gibson house
Fo3 prewar book Gibson house4.jpg|Gibson house
Fo3 prewar book Gillian house.jpg|Gillian house
Fo3 prewar book HCP.jpg|Hubris Comics, publishing
Fo3 prewar book HC printing.jpg|Hubris Comics, printing
BB of Science drainage chamber SOT.jpg|Jury Street Metro station, drainage chamber
Fo3 prewar book LOBE ew.jpg|L.O.B. Enterprises, East wing
Fo3 prewar book MD pf.jpg|Mama Dolce's, processed foods
Fo3 prewar book MD fd.jpg|Mama Dolce's, food distribution
RoD Perception bobblehead.jpg|Museum of Dave
Fo3 prewar book TNA.jpg|National Archives
Fo3 prewar book NGD.jpg|National Guard depot
Fo3 prewar book NGD tw.jpg|National Guard depot, training wing
Fo3 prewar book NGD do.jpg|National Guard depot, depot offices
Fo3 prewar book OLofHH.jpg|Our Lady of Hope Hospital
1st Keller family transcript bottom shelf.jpg|Pylon shack
DC Journal of IM drainage chamber Signal OZ.jpg|Relay tower KX-B8-11, drainage chamber
Fo3 prewar book CC raider outpost.jpg|Raider outpost
BB of Science RobCo facility.jpg|RobCo facility, factory floor
Fo3 prewar book RobCo facility.jpg|RobCo facility, factory floor
Fo3 Stealth Boy RobCo facility3.jpg|RobCo facility, offices and cateteria
Fo3 prewar book RA.jpg|Roosevelt Academy
Fo3 prewar book RA AA hall.jpg|Roosevelt Academy, A&A hall
Wanderer mini nuke.jpg|East of Roosevelt Academy, A wanderer location
FO3 PI Charnel House Papa November.jpg|Signal Papa November
Fo3 prewar book PF slave house.jpg|Slave house
FO3 GAB Sniper Shack.jpg|Sniper shack
DC Journal of IM Oasis sunken chambers.jpg|Sunken chambers
Fo3 Grognak the Barbarian raider fortress TofU.jpg|Southwest of Temple of the Union
Fo3 prewar book tepid sewers.jpg|Tepid sewers
Fo3 prewar book Vault 92.jpg|Vault 92
Vault 92 log3 and DC.jpg|Vault 92, overseer's office
Fo3 prewar book Vault 92 st1.jpg|Vault 92, sound testing
Fo3 prewar book Vault 92 st2.jpg|Vault 92, sound testing
Fo3 prewar book Vault 92 st3.jpg|Vault 92, sound testing
Fo3 prewar book Vault-Tec HQ offices.jpg|Vault-Tec headquarters, offices
Fo3 prewar book YGT.jpg|Yao guai tunnels
Fo3 prewar book Zane house.jpg|Zane house
Fo3PL prewar book St. Aubin med facility.jpg|St. Aubin medical facility 
Pre-War Book 02.png|Rare blue version
Fo3 blue pre-war books JM.jpg|Blue books at Jefferson Memorial 
Fo3 blue pre-war book MCR.jpg|Blue book in a barn northwest of Montgomery County Reservoir 
Marcella's last words.jpg|Blue book in Marcella's tent 
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