Oh, I love that idea :3

Perhaps we could even have a personal lore journal, which gets gradually filled, as we find random bits of lore in the world about different topics. Scribbles of paper (in dungeons, like the notes we can click on in Tam-Tara in 1.0), lore quests, random monuments that have inscriptions on them (there was even lore to be found on fountains in Ul'dah in 1.0), random NPCs that have no apparent use (not for quest, not merchants) that just "talk" when you click them but give you lore information. The journal could contain just about anything. Background on races, classes, guilds, free companies, cities, settlements, events. . . .

As far as the books that Raven mentioned go, would be nice if those books could be tied to a grand library of sorts, where the NPC librarian could have us go seek high and low for them, and acquire them for the library, or we could have them displayed on shelves in our homes. Or both! @_@