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Bookworm Text Guide

By ElfPrince1937

Text guide for Bookworm Achievement

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Category: Achievements, Secrets, Story or Lore, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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Guide Index

Overview

Insert Boring Intro Here

Jill's Report

Investigation Notes

Message from a Colleague

Unsealed Envelope

U.B.C.S. Ammo Crafting Guide

Tabloid Front Page

U.B.C.S. Herb Field Manual

Drugstore Owner's Journal

Kite Bros. Railway Manual

Subway Employee's Memo

Training Log

U.B.C.S. Suicide Note

Electrician's Notice

Fax from Substation Chief

Green Herbs: They Work!

Substation Internal Memo

Chad's Notes

Your Charlie Doll

Increased Sewer Security

Research Assistant's Logs

Invoice from Gun Shop Kendo

Sewer Worker's Notes

A Love Letter?

Notice of Demolition Delay

Raccoon Times Reader's Column

Email Outbox

ID Card Security Protocols

Sept. 20 Arrest Report

Internal Memo

3F Locker

Note to a Friend

Report on the Mansion Incident

U.B.C.S. New Weaponry Notice

Clock Tower Brochure

Nurse's Journal: Sept. 25

Nurse's Journal: Sept. 27

Nurse's Journal: Sept. 29

Memos from Administration

Note about a Tape Recording

RE: Lost Items

Banquet Invitation

Email from Nathaniel Bard

Spencer Memorial Pamphlet

Elevator Notice

Employee Memo

Unfinished Activity Log

Nest 2 Employee Regulations

Isaac Graves' Diary

Essay on Vaccine Synthesis

Shipping Notice

Weaponry Authorization Request

Scientist's Dying Message

Expression of Concern

Disposal Center

Weapon Spec Sheet

Suspicious Contract Memo

So Long, RC...

Comments

Insert Boring Intro Here

Hello, everyone! This is my first guide, so please bear with my corny humor. Hey, as long as I deliver the goods, right? Like the description says, this is a guide on how to earn the "Bookworm" achievement, which requires you to find all 56--count 'em--56 files scattered throughout the Resident Evil 3 Remake (2020).

First, a few notes on files (pun fully intended):
Probably the most important: the game will actually track your progress toward this achievement outside your playthroughs. What this means is, you could find File X in Playthrough 1 but miss it in Playthrough 2, and you'd still earn the achievement, so long as you eventually find and collect all 56 files. Thanks so much to "MMWHD"aC° for drawing my attention to this!

This guide and its author naturally assume you're OK with mild spoilers, which are really only included in some descriptions for clarity ("after watching this scene," etc.) Hey, you're playing the game anyway, right?

Rooms on your in-game map will be marked blue once you've obtained all ammo and other items--files will not show up on this map, and thus do not count toward item completion. But then if they did, you wouldn't be here reading this guide, so...

In the interest of being as in-depth as possible, this text-based guide also includes in-game screenshots of all 56 file locations, along with short descriptions of how/where they can be found.

You're welcome.

Jill's Report

Location: Apartment

Easily found right at the beginning of the game, on the big evidence wall (after Jill wakes from her nightmare).

Investigation Notes

Location: Apartment

Same place as the previous file, on the big evidence board at the beginning of the game.

Message from a Colleague

Mmm...mega meat!

Location: Apartment

On the table by the open pizza box.

Unsealed Envelope

Location: Apartment

On the dresser, by the stereo and stack of CDs.

U.B.C.S. Ammo Crafting Guide

Location: Redstone Street Station

After following Carlos into the subway and watching the scene with Mikhail, you will find this file on a bench, just outside the subway car.

Tabloid Front Page

Location: Redstone Street Station

After picking up the previous file, proceed up the stairs toward your current objective. This file will be found at the newsstand just in front of you.

U.B.C.S. Herb Field Manual

Location: Downtown

Technically-speaking, you are still in the "Redstone Street Station," but per the in-game map, this file is found in the "Downtown" area, in the Subway Station.

You'll find it on a table just past the U.B.C.S. ammo cache.

Drugstore Owner's Journal

Location: Downtown

This area is completely optional, hence the lengthy explanation to follow:

1. After examining the hydrant in the alley that's on fire, go down the newly-opened path (where the zombies broke down the barricade).

2. Proceed down the stairs to the plaza where the donut shop is, and take a right onto a long, metal catwalk.

3. The left path will bring you to a storage room, where this file can be found.

*Note that this building can also be entered from the street where the Kite Bros. Railway is, accessed via the donut shop.

Kite Bros. Railway Manual

Location: Subway Office

On a chair in the office of the Kite Bros. Railway building, where the subway controls are.

Subway Employee's Memo

Location: Subway Office

In the Kite Bros. Railway building, this file is on the table in the main office (the one you see through the glass window as you enter).

The door to enter is in the back of the hallway, near where you pick up the fire hose.

Training Log

Location: Downtown - Garage

After putting out the fire in the alley, you will enter the garage. Pick up the bolt cutters in the office, and proceed through the door locked with a chain.

After the scene with poor Murphy, this file will be found next to his corpse.

U.B.C.S. Suicide Note

Location: Downtown

After exiting the garage into the alleyway, take a right. You will find this file on the ground, next to the dead U.B.C.S. soldier.

Electrician's Notice

Location: Downtown

From where you found the U.B.C.S. Suicide Note, proceed down the other end of the alley. You will come across this file on a nearby brick wall.

Appropriately, it's right before another alley, containing a pair of zombie dogs and an electric generator!

Fax from Substation Chief

Location: Subway Power Substation - Control Room

On a table to your left as you enter.

Green Herbs: They Work!

Location: Subway Power Substation

After exiting the control room into the outdoor area, proceed down the stairs to find this file on a shelf, near a pair of green herbs.

Substation Internal Memo

Location: Subway Power Substation

After picking up "Green Herbs: They Work!", turn around to find this file on the wall, next to the padlocked gate leading to the high-voltage area.

Chad's Notes

Location: Subway Power Substation

After activating the nearby circuit breaker (it should put you at 3/4), head through the nearby gate--the ladder will bring you up to the metal platform where this file can be found, next to a wooden crate. This is also how you reach the 4th and final circuit breaker.

Your Charlie Doll

Why yes, that is Nemesis staring creepily through the window. He won't follow you in, but he'll definitely wait for you to come back out, in true stalker fashion!

Location: Downtown

After obtaining the lockpick at the substation, return to the main Downtown area and use the lockpick to enter the "Toy Uncle" toy store. You will find this on the wall.

Increased Sewer Security

Location: Sewers

Shortly after entering the sewers, you will find this file next to the first of the electronically-locked doors, at the end of the metal walkway.

Research Assistant's Logs

Locations: Sewers - Office

This file will be on a table to your right as soon as you enter the office.

Invoice from Gun Shop Kendo

Location: Sewers - Office

Also in the office, further back from the "Research Assistant's Logs," on a stepladder near the grenade launcher.

Sewer Worker's Notes

Even in death, he couldn't miss a chance to photobomb.

Location: Sewers

After exiting the office, take the lefthand path at the first fork. Then, take the righthand path at the next fork.

Yes, I do mean the one that requires you to run through a waterfall of raw sewage.

The file will be found in a small, out-of-the-way area, near a corpse.

A Love Letter?

Location: Sewers - Lab

On one of the desks in the lab; upon entering, do a U-turn around the test-tube cases to your left.

Notice of Demolition Delay

Location: Demolition Site

After escaping Nemesis--who now has a giant flamethrower--you will find this file next to the typewriter in the "safe room."

You know, the one atop a burning building that had been scheduled for demolition.

Raccoon Times Reader's Column

Location: Downtown

After defeating Nemesis atop the Demolition Site and meeting Kendo at the Gun Shop, you'll pass through an alleyway, and then a house, to return to the main Downtown area.

This file is on the bed upstairs.

Email Outbox

Location: Police Station - Entrance

After killing Zombie Brad, don't head straight into the station just yet.

Instead, turn around and go back toward the cemetery area, then proceed down into the tunnel. You will find this file in the old storage save room from Resident Evil 2's Leon B campaign.

ID Card Security Protocols

Location: Police Station - Reception

You'll see this file immediately as you enter, next to a storage box requiring Brad's ID card.

Sept. 20 Arrest Report

Location: Police Station - West Office

You will find this file on Marvin Branagh's desk.

Internal Memo

Location: Police Station - Darkroom

You will see this file immediately as you enter (easier to see with the lights on).

3F Locker

Location: Police Station - Safety Deposit Room

Immediately to your right as you enter, on the whiteboard.

Note to a Friend

Location: Police Station - Shower Room

Right in front of you as you enter, on the bench. Easy to miss in the dark.

Report on the Mansion Incident

This office has an air of the diabolical, with just a whiff of sunglasses fetish...

Location: Police Station - S.T.A.R.S. Office

Upon entering the room, turn left and enter the smaller office. You will find this file on the desk (guess whose?)

U.B.C.S. New Weaponry Notice

Location: Subway Tunnels - Dilapidated Shelter

Upon entering the save room, you will see this file on a bench, between a stack of Mine Rounds and a First Aid Spray.

Clock Tower Brochure

Location: Clock Tower Plaza

After leaving the Subway Tunnels, but before crossing the bridge, head toward the river. You'll find this file on a red bench nearby.

Nurse's Journal: Sept. 25

Location: Hospital - Lab Reception

You will see this file on the receptionist's desk as you approach the doors to the lab.

Nurse's Journal: Sept. 27

Location: Hospital - Records Room

On a shelf near the item box.

Nurse's Journal: Sept. 29

Location: Hospital - Staff Room

On a corner of the table in the center of the room.

Memos from Administration

Location: Hospital - Staff Room

On the wall next to the Locker Room door.

Note about a Tape Recording

Location: Hospital - Nurses' Station

On the desk of the nurses' station, near the telephone and computers.

RE: Lost Items

Location: Hospital - Operating Room

Found behind the operating bed.

Banquet Invitation

Location: Hospital - Lab

Found on the nearby desk, next to the corpse of Dr. Bard.

Email from Nathaniel Bard

Location: Hospital - Lab

Found on Dr. Bard's computer--look for the Umbrella logo. Required to advance through the story.

Spencer Memorial Pamphlet

Location: Hospital - Reception

In a brochure basket next to the door to the underground. Can be picked up as either Jill or Carlos.

Elevator Notice

Location: Underground Storage - Office

In the first save room you come to after entering the hospital's underground and taking the giant cargo lift down, this will be on the desk between the hip pouch and the typewriter.

Employee Memo

Location: Underground Storage

This file can be found on a stack of disused computer servers, in the room right next to the save room.

The room is initially locked, and only accessible by making your way around the larger storage area using the lifts. The file itself is rather easy to miss in the dark...especially as your attention may be diverted by two zombies and a Pale Head!

Unfinished Activity Log

Underground Storage - Surveillance Room

Found at the control panel in the underground storage facility, after obtaining all four fuses and restoring power. Required to advance the story.

Nest 2 Employee Regulations

Location: Nest 2 - Storage

After the scene with Tyrell (R.I.P.), proceed through the Sterilization Room and continue down the hallway to the save room at the far end. The file will be on a stainless-steel handcart.

Isaac Graves' Diary

More zombie photobombing glory!

Location: Nest 2

From the Storage save room, go back out into the hallway and up the stairs. The previous file included a map of the area, so take the first left down the L-shaped hallway. After dealing with a couple of zombies, you will find this file inside one of the wooden crates at the end of this hallway.

Essay on Vaccine Synthesis

Location: Nest 2

This file will be found inside the big room with the vaccine synthesizer, on one of the green hospital beds.

Shipping Notice

Location: Nest 2

After obtaining the Override Key, you will find this file on a stainless-steel handcart, in the room behind the electronically-locked door.

You'll know you're in the right place when you see the giant, hanging body bags...

Weaponry Authorization Request

Industrial yellow miniature crane-claws--a classic Resident Evil trademark!

Location: Nest 2 - Lab 1

You will find this file on a desk in one of the laboratories, near a microscope. It's the same room where you find the Antigen Sample.

Scientist's Dying Message

Don't get up...don't get up...don't get up...

Location: Nest 2

After passing through the big, body bag room, turn to your right as you step out onto the metal walkway. The file will be found with a dead scientist.

Expression of Concern

Location: Nest 2 - Incubation Lab

This file will be on a desk in the lab with the Adjuvant Sample, after passing through the long room filled with Hunters and Tyrants.

Disposal Center

Location: Nest 2 - Workers' Break Room

After escaping from Nemesis (again) and entering the save room, you will find this file on the wall, next to the valve-operated door.

Weapon Spec Sheet

Location: Nest 2 - Staff Break Room

Easy to miss if you get caught up in the story, and just rush through the game's final save room after Nicholai. This file is found on a shelf in the corner, near a can of First Aid Spray.

Suspicious Contract Memo

Now, who could have dropped this...?

Location: Nest 2

VERY easily missed. After finally killing Nemesis for the last time (Nemesis down!!!), you will find this file on the floor of the metal platform above (stroll through Nemesis' flaming remains to find the ladder).

The file will be right in front of the sliding electronic door.

So Long, RC...

And that's all, folks! Assuming you've been following this guide, you have now claimed a grand total of 56--count 'em--56 ragged, blood-stained, likely radioactive files from the ashes of Raccoon City, and should receive the Bookworm achievement even before the credits roll!

Hope you had as much fun trudging through the zombie-filled ashes as I did!

19 Comments

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Shoggoth25 5 Apr @ 10:31pm

That very last memo was really hard to see, and luckily that was the one I was missing. Thanks for the guide!

Iridescent Lightning 9 Jan @ 10:23am

Thanks for the efforts!

Doctor Goober 4 Nov, 2023 @ 7:04pm

Thanks!

Lupercal 11 Jan, 2023 @ 6:41pm

Thank you :)

Supreme Gentleman 2 Jan, 2023 @ 3:42am

Thanks man

ElfPrince1937 [author] 1 Jan, 2023 @ 6:50pm

I want to say that most, if not all, Steam achievements track your progress across multiple playthroughs...? This is something I noticed a lot in Bioshock Infinite with "Do X to an enemy X number of times," for example.

Supreme Gentleman 1 Jan, 2023 @ 1:50pm

Hey, if let's say I miss 1 note on my first playthrough, but pick it up on my second playthrough do I get the achievement? Or do I need to pick up all of the other notes again?

NightCoreMoon 30 Jun, 2022 @ 7:49am

oh my god the suspicious contract memo is the one im missing

thanks for the guide

Drelkag 11 Dec, 2020 @ 10:02am

Appreciate the guide, helped a lot.

TreeTrunk 9 May, 2020 @ 4:43am

Thanks!

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