World of Warcraft: Book Inventory Quest Guide (Northshire Abbey)

Book Inventory is one of the earliest tasks Alliance characters pick up in Northshire Valley, and it is a pure delivery quest. There is nothing to kill and nothing to loot. You just need to walk into Northshire Abbey and find the right person standing in the right corner.

Quick answer: Turn in Book Inventory to Daniel <Librarian’s Assistant>, who stands beside a bookshelf in the Library Wing of Northshire Abbey.

How to find Daniel in Northshire Abbey

From anywhere in Northshire Valley, head for Northshire Abbey, the large building at the center of the starting area. Open your world map if you need a bearing, since the valley sits just outside Stormwind City and the abbey is the most obvious landmark on it.

Map Location Shown — The world map showing Northshire Valley and Stormwind City as you approach the abbey entrance. Shown at 00:09 in PazarGamingGuides’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Climb the stone stairs outside and walk in through the main entrance. You will pass Marshal McBride in the Main Hall on your way through, which is a good sign you are heading the right way.

Move into the Library Wing and look toward the corner near the bookshelves. Daniel is tucked in tight against the shelving, which is why plenty of players run straight past him.

Locating Daniel in Library Wing — Daniel <Librarian's Assistant> stands in the corner of the Library Wing next to a bookshelf. Shown at 00:27 in PazarGamingGuides’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Talk to Daniel and complete the quest through the dialogue window. That is the whole objective — there is no item to hand over manually and no wait timer.

Book Inventory rewards and how to confirm the turn-in

The payout is intentionally tiny, because this is a low-level introduction quest that exists mainly to point you at the abbey’s librarians. You will know it worked when the completion dialogue closes and the reward text appears.

15 experience
5 copper
Book Inventory clears from your quest log

If the quest is still sitting in your log after talking to Daniel, you clicked past the accept button on the completion window. Speak to him again and confirm the turn-in.

Pick up Hallowed Letter before you leave the Library Wing

Daniel is not the end of the chain. A few steps away in the same room is Brother Paxton <Librarian>, who offers the follow-up quest Hallowed Letter. Grab it while you are already standing there, then head back out through the Main Hall toward the exit.

Picking Up Follow-up Quest — Brother Paxton <Librarian> hands out the follow-up quest Hallowed Letter in the same room. Shown at 00:46 in PazarGamingGuides’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Not the same thing: Book It to the Library on Isle of Dorn

Searches for library quests often land people on a very different objective. Book It to the Library is a level 80 world quest on the Isle of Dorn, with Lady Jaina Proudmoore narrating over the dialogue box. It has combat and collection steps, so if your tracker is asking you to gather tomes, you are on that one instead.

Quest overview — The Book It to the Library world quest overview on the Isle of Dorn map, showing both objectives at zero. Shown at 00:08 in Warcraft Quest Guide’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Detail	Value
Zone	Isle of Dorn
Level	80 world quest
Objective 1	6 lost tomes collected
Objective 2	1 Babbling Book slain
Experience	11,750

The tomes are the glowing purple Arcane Tomes scattered on the ground across the area. Flying over the terrain and sweeping them up is the fastest way to push the counter from 1/6 to 6/6.

Collecting Arcane Tomes — Glowing purple Arcane Tomes on the ground raise the lost tomes counter as you collect them. Shown at 00:17 in Warcraft Quest Guide’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

The second half is a single hostile mob, the Babbling Book, sitting up a rocky path near coordinates 55.45, 57.45. Kill it and the World Quest Complete banner fires along with Jaina’s closing line.

Checking map location — The Isle of Dorn map with the player positioned near coordinates 55.45, 57.45. Shown at 00:45 in Warcraft Quest Guide’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

For the Northshire version, the whole thing is a sixty-second detour: walk in, find Daniel by the bookshelf, hand it in, and take Hallowed Letter from Brother Paxton on your way back out.