found it, forgot to enable the config was trying to do implemetn too fast. sorry 

let me know, i foudn other bugs in the mean time. 

and fix it in recent pushes

I've also got this exact problem, same mod version (game version 1.22.6), big lag spike when opening the book, book gets thrown and read/opened

Please! add a config to disable the throwing!

❤️. I know i hate the tiny editor, they should just have markdown. 

yea i verified it is a bug in a older version, Do update it, not present at least wasnt able to reproduce it. so let me know if it is persistent. I only got a mac to test it.
the good news either way you got tons of neat features!!!
Books themselves

• 75 real pre-1300 works, 510 readable volumes — genuine public-domain text (Beowulf, the Iliad, Heimskringla, the Nibelungenlied, Marcus Aurelius…) that you open and read in-game, not flavor props.
• Long works are split into numbered volumes, so collecting a full set is a real goal — Heimskringla alone is 25 volumes.
• Every find comes in one of 16 aged/rotten cover colors.

Handling books
Throwing — tap use to read; hold use ~1 second then release to lob it like a stone. Thrown books always drop on impact, so a volume is never destroyed. (Throwing books)
Floor piles — sneak + right-click a book onto the ground to start a pile, up to 16 mixed volumes per block; empty-hand right-click takes from the top, Ctrl moves several. Press F while holding a book to toggle Messy ↔ Neat layout. Covers render from the real books. (Book piles)
Carried stacks — "the pizza boxes" — drag two lore books together to form a held stack of up to 3, carried flat on the hand. Tap reads the top book, hold throws it, Q soft-tosses it, and sneak-use lays the top book straight onto a floor pile (or unstacks one back to inventory) — so a handful becomes a pile without round-tripping through your inventory.

Bonus: any other mod's book that follows the vanilla book-* / lore-book-* naming automatically piles and stacks too, since the mod matches on code path

Awesome, thank you! Seems like a sick update

ok will put a fix soon, mightl do a breaking change, and use left click to throw. Might be the best option in this case. 

pushing a fix soon, i will increase the timing, lets see if that small fix works for you rather than break backwards compatibility. I will work on creating some simulated network issues tests for the future. Folks may have different settings,  so if anyone from the future is reading this, create a issue in the issue tracker if you can, so i can track exact conditions! thank you Ashleyyy33 for the report ❤️ and future person 🧑🏽‍🚀 filing future issue, in the future 🔮

I used creative mode in my survival world to drop a smaller version of Better Ruins' underground library into my base and am looking forward to filling it with all the books I can find. And now I'm thinking about sticking a bookkeeper shop right next to it. Maybe set up a cafe, too.

Combined with Stained Artifice, I can sit and read books in the public domain underneath a row of stained glass windows. A great edition for 30 day month worlds.

Fantastic mod! Looking forward to any additional mods/updates that add more works. I think splitting off different languages into separate mods would work best.

I sort of agree with an above commenter (the point about art subjects is interesting, but unless we're talking about the technology involved in producing said artwork, like the chemistry and sourcing of materials involved in making paints or the weaving style/predominance of tapestries, then I see that as a world having a different history with artistic subjects and movements than necessarily dating a world) that I saw this world as a bit later than 1300s, mainly because of teleporters, real, reusable gliders (since good ol' Leo from Vinci is late 1400s to early 1500s) and huge ruins like the Resonance Archives indicating serious excavation and construction tech. Since in the vanilla game (currently) the only NPCs are traders, one utterly miniscule hamlet that's...what, a handful of households? and no children, which makes you wonder if they're capable of producing children, who are a huge asset in agrarian communities, and a single hermit, I see the technology as necessarily scaled down to meet the needs of the population, regardless of what time frame it actually is. Put another way, you're not going to be making petri dishes and bolt-action rifles if you have 20 total workers in your civilization. But books last a long-ass time if stored (or forgotten in the right climate) properly, so you could easily have books from the 15th-early 16th centuries.

Incredibly dumb idea: perishable books that pair with a librarian NPC. The fresh books last 1-2 months and then perish into overdue books, at which point if you have them in your inventory the NPC chucks rocks at you until you drop them. Way beyond the scope of this mod but if anyone is inspired by that have fun, lol.

❤️I was going to ask someone to make a vs version of the library arcana from the game to add as a ruins! Then put a bunch of empty bookcases and piles everywhere. One thing we def is a replacement for aged bookshelves to be able to remove the books themselves, other than the lore ones. Yeah def need a way to compost books ;) especially if you get them wet.