I've already made this post here:http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/index.php?topic=25547.0 but I didn't get much help.

I can't seem to figure out a Book and Quill's NBT tags.

 

if you were wondering, this in my class's code (its in onBlockActivated)

if(!world.isRemote){
		if(player.getHeldItem()!=null)
		if(player.getHeldItem().getItem()==Items.writable_book){
			System.out.println(player.getHeldItem().stackTagCompound);
			if(player.getHeldItem().stackTagCompound!=null){
				NBTTagCompound booknbt = player.getHeldItem().stackTagCompound;

				NBTTagList Pages = (NBTTagList)booknbt.getTag("pages");

				NBTTagCompound text = Pages.getCompoundTagAt(0);

				System.out.println(text);

			}
		}

Any help is appreciated.

I'm not following, what exactly is going wrong?

I'm making a block that can read a book and quill's nbt and follow instructions based off that. I can't figure out the correct tags for books though.

Well, from what I can gather, there are three tags in a book: author, title, and pages. So, your doing that right. Is it crashing? Or is it just not doing what you want it too?

I need to get the text on each line, and I can't figure out how. you can see what I've tried in the first post.

huh, I didn't know it was stored as a NBTTagString element. I thought it was stored as a NBTTagCompound. What method or methods do you use to get the NBTTagString or is it just ".getString"?