Definitely love Oblivion and Morrowind's book systems far more than Skyrim's. Being able to quickly change pages in a click, and not have to wait a second or so for the SLOW AF page turning. I also like the colours more. Dark reddish ink on yellow paper, vs the incredibly bland black ink on whiteish paper.
Racism? In my fantasy game with multitudes of different races, some of which came into being in unnatural way? Good. Not as good as Morrowind's N'wah, but still good.
Right, in a game where, I shit you not (pun intended), Boethiah ate Trinimac and shat out Malacath, I think the racism just helps keep things grounded lmao