Everything Sims 2

Stops children from autonomously asking to be read to and stops teens and older Sims from autonomously reading to children. Toddlers can ask to be read to.

Read to sleep is limited by age and relationship. Read to sleep can no longer be done to teens. Seriously, who reads a teenager to sleep? The reader must be either a relative or a friend rather than any random stranger.

Sims will put books away only in the same room. Sloppy sims won’t always use a table if a bookcase is closer.

Two mods listed.
1.) Book Fun Changes – Requires FT
This is a of global mod that makes reading books from bookshelves more fun. Fun gain rate to 200 per hour in all versions, which means a Sim could go from a completely empty fun bar to maxed out in one hour. This may seem a bit excessive, but the original gain rate was 100. This mod comes in two variations. One where all Sims find books equally fun, and one where only Sims with a playful score of 5 or lower find books more fun. Conflicts with Freetime Book Fixes mod. Which one you should use depends on if you want fun to be higher for all Sims or only serious Sims, and if you want cook books, romance books and sci fi books to affect motives. See the table in link to help you choose the one you want.
2.) All Sims Put Books Away
This is a global mod that removes the neat check so that all Sims put books back in the bookshelf. However, this does not mean a Sim will always put books away. There are some situations where even a neat Sim would put their book down somewhere else, and these situations will still apply. But over all you will see a dramatic decrease in books on floor/surfaces with this mod since all Sims will at least try to put their book back in the book shelf.

This is a global mod that changes how long it takes to write a novel. In FT/AL/M&G the default time required to write a novel is roughly 15 hours. There are 3 different versions with also a option to customize your own.

This is a global mod that changes effect on motives from reading certain Freetime books. There are two different global mods to choose between. They are made differently, and work differently. Which one to use depends on what you want this mod to do.

1.) Only Fun version– This is a global mod that removes the book-specific motive changes. Your Sims will gain fun from reading books like they always have, but all other motives are unaffected. This mod is unlikely to conflict with other mods.
2.) More Realistic version– This is a global mod that alters the rate at which motives decrease/increase from reading books. This mod is more versatile than Only Fun, because it changes the rate at which motives change rather than remove them completely. This version is set to no hygiene decay, 50% less hunger decay, and 65% less social increase. Sims will lose 1/8 of the hunger bar per hour, and gain 1/8 of the social bar per hour. If you’d like it set different, you can easily change it.

– Bookworms get more fun from reading books in general. They will be more attracted to reading books.
– Brooding Sims are more attracted to write in their diary than other Sims.
– Childish Sims get more fun from reading Children’s books.
– Computer Whizzes get more fun from reading Scifi books.
– Dramatic Sims get more fun from reading Drama books.
– Hopeless Romantics get more fun from reading Romance books.
– Natural Cooks get more fun from reading Cooking books (not to be confused with the book used to study Cooking skill).
– Perceptive Sims get more fun from reading Mystery books.

The fun bonus stack up, so a Sim with both the Natural Cook and Bookworm traits will have a bigger fun gain from reading Cooking books for example.

This mod prevents sims from autonomously blogging about their hobbies.