What happened to the in-game lore books?

To be precise what happened to the lore books you could find in game that you could find at random places around Azeroth that would tell you a brief summary of past events. I remember the search for those rather fondly and I think it was fun to have them in the game. Does anyone know why they seem to have been removed?

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They are still there, there are achievements for them.

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You can still find them laying around Kaliimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. There just have not been any added in the newer zones, atleast not to my knowledge.

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Thanks, I’ll need to look for them again.

They’re still around. You can even pick up conjured copies of them in Dalaran that last for a day. Primarily, they detailed the major events ranging from the War of the Ancients to the Frozen Throne. They were great for getting an in-game understanding of what brought us where we were today, without having to play or read through a bunch of extraneous outside material.

Nowadays, they’re less necessary, because anything that COULD be detailed in those books, the players have probably lived through firsthand.

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They need to reintroduce more lore-books each expansion. In dungeons, raids and hidden locations around & about.

I always enjoyed the good read back in Vanilla through to Wrath, was very informative, intriguing and weaved me deeper and deeper into the lore.