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It's a sort of mini-achievement thing.

You find pieces of a sort of diary thing which you store it your bookshelf.

BUT WAIT, a diary? that means there's someone else living in your world.

Yes. It's all a mystery .......for now.

You solve the mystery by finding the pieces and reading it.
Each piece is very dark and obscure, i daresay; it won't become obvious unless all of the pieces are together.

I think it'll add a sort of 'Lost' feeling to Minecraft =)

Random literature seems like an interesting idea. Maybe they don't need to actually reveal a story, though... just hint at one.
Another approach might be to have a mechanism for letting the player randomly find various Public Domain works from Project Gutenberg. That might evoke interesting reactions based on the perceived context. "Eh? Why are all these skeletons gathered around this book? ... oh no, they've discovered the Art Of War."

I don't necessarily like or dislike it, but it does seem pretty much impossible to be able to find all the pieces of this "diary". You have to remember that minecraft generates a seemingly infinite world, and to be able to explore the entire thing and find all the pages, would take far too long for just one person to accomplish.

here's a better idea. make a way to import other people's created levels, and have someone craft this "lost" experience themselves, for other players to play.

i think following the OP's suggestion goes against the nature of minecraft. minecraft, in its vanilla state, should be a blank canvas, for your mind to fill in the story on its own.

maybe instead of finding pages of a diary scattered around like thealantang suggested, you could be able to write your own diary and put it in bookshelves maybe be able to place it like a half stone and then right click to read, and so if you downloaded someone's world you could find a diary in an abandoned house and add a story to that world, or rules to a MP server, it would be pretty cool and add a lot of possiblites