http://members.home.nl/nerusai/wow/Annals_of_Darrowshire.JPG
You might need to increase graphic settings to see the difference between the two book types.

The trick with this quest is to carefully examine the books on the floor. "Trapped" tomes that spawn guards have a clear white/gray split on their pages, whereas the real thing has a smooth transition from white to gray. This may only become apparent if you zoom in and highlight a book, but it's worth it to avoid unneccessary fights.

Also, if you're doing this as a 'lock, use Life Tap and Hellfire to suicide in and out, as you won't lose durability and won't have to fight to undead out front.

Building located at 43,68. Inside there is a bunch of musty tomes second one i clicked on turned out to be the quest item. Do not know if it is random or not but i found it in the very book in the very top right hand end of the room. Hope this helps :)

If you look at all the books in the room, they are dark blue on the bottom and light blue on the top.

The real one is light blue on the bottom and the top.

You can avoid corpse running as long as you inspect them carefully.

Real vs Fake

Edited, Wed Aug 3 14:10:49 2005

Ok the Location on the books is 44, 67. If you cant see them look up, WAAAAY up. They are floating in the sky. At least its proof positive that it is bugged at the moment.

Leads to Brother Carlin (https://classicdb.ch/?quest=5210)

and eventually the BAttle of Darrowshire
https://classicdb.ch/?quest=5721

The guy that pointed out that the books with half light and half dark pages are all the Ruined Tomes and the one that is all the same shade is the quest book was Dead on. I picked up 7 Ruined tomes fighting those stupid guardians before I read his post. After reading it I zoomed to 1st person and looked at all the books until I found one all the same color and that was the right one.

On a side note, you can get a room with ALL ruined tomes, if you do you have to pick some up and wait for the respawn.

I can 100% confirm that the real book definitely looks different from all of the other books, I just did the quest yesterday and posted about this here on the book's page a few minutes after.

First and foremost, the fake books are indeed all bottom half white pages and top half gray pages.

Secondly, the fake book pages look to be a lower texture resolution. They don't look like actual pages if that makes any sense. The real book's pages will look like pages are supposed to look. When you see it, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

And be sure to hover your mouse over the books to light them up some, the room is rather dark. :)

Took quite a while for the right one to spawn, few things you should know.

1: Wrong ones can spawn 0,1, or 2 guys to kill you.&nbsp Generally 55.

2: You get instantly debuffed with -25% speed and 33%&nbsp more time between attacks

3: One type of guy gives you a debuff that stacks up to 5 times.&nbsp Debilitating Disease or something.&nbsp Each stack is -20 stamina and -20 strength, and it lasts 2 minutes.&nbsp Each time it stacks again the 2 minutes is reset.&nbsp So plan on doing this with -1000 health and -100 Strength.&nbsp I'm a 55 rogue and it was annoying, but I never died.

Here are 2 pics of what the real one looked like.&nbsp Front and back.

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/8913/untitled1lv7.png

-Sorry if the red disturbs the pages - but you can still see there is a lot less 'contrast' between top and bottom (these are both on mousover)

IMAGE AND INFORMATION BY ZPY FROM
DESTROMATH - ALLIANCE

I just want to be sure good info gets out there! I did this quest today, and I definetly saw the 'X' and the pages were def more uniform in color. I took screenies, see below. It didn't spawn tho for awhile, I had started just opening all the books thinking maybe the X thing was not good info, as some people have said. I don't know what book they were looking for, it was absolutely on the Annals of Darrowshire for me, lol. And it was very obvious, especially after looking at all those books for awhile.
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9784/mustytome1hl3.jpg

Even at this angle, you can see that it looks like an 'E'

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7082/mustytome2qq1.jpg

When I didn't have it selected, you really couldn't see anything.

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/5214/mustytome3bx3.jpg

This is the unselected view of the page colors on the junk book.

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3925/annals1ai3.jpg

Note the obvious 'X' shape, this is an unselected view.

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/5299/annals2ef5.jpg

Same view, this time I have the book selected

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/2152/annals3kf8.jpg

This is to show the obvious difference in page colors as well, the non-quest books are all grey on top, dark grey when unselected, this book is obviously not that way. This is the unselected view

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/7671/annals4om7.jpg

Same view, book selected

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/8144/annals5nx5.jpg

And here it is from a distance, def different than the other books. You may not be able to tell as well from these pics, its very obvious in the City Hall. I didn't have to adjust my settings at all, but they may be fairly high already. I did this as a 60 NE Druid, and it wasn't too bad.

The Book IS a random spawn. You may have to burn a couple of the fake ones to get it to spawn.
Go into your video options, MAX out Terrain Texture, and Terrain Detail. Then, get into first person view and look at all the books carefully. The real book will appear to have more pages, better graphics, all one-coloured pages and a faint X on the back of the book.
Confirmed in 2.1.2.

Finally got the book when I tried this method.&nbsp

1)Turn up the Gamma in the video options screen

2) Look at the spines of each book.&nbsp The correct book has a faint, but noticeable 'X' on the spine.&nbsp

Select that one and you'll get the tomb.&nbsp Worked first time for me after spending hours looking!