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I've never actually encountered obsidian, even around the magma sea...

So I'm jealous.

Oh dear-  I had about 100 migrants in three seasons which choked my fort before I could get my dining/housing complex dug.  Dormed everyone, and they turned the tiny dining hall into a straight up mosh pit.  When I flipped open the social tab- holy crap!

I have not extensively used burrows beyond the alert system.  However, an alert burrow is simply a standard burrow that everyone goes in based on alert status.

I was quite annoyed to see my brave citizens, usually legendary something or others, go run for the map edge as soon as the alert goes up.  After being burrowed for a while, I tend to see everything normal.  Since alert burrows are the same thing as regular, I wonder if this isn't what you are seeing.

Once I establish a dining hall, I only seldomly see dwarves houtside.  What kind of meeting area are you establishing?

Who is  to say we weren't all already brainwashed by Peter Molyneux?
Is dwarf fortress not simply an artifact level dungeon keeper, in which dungeon keeper is but of the most basic level?

THE SEED WAS PLANTED

I think the trade depot is a great spot to consider.  I finally devised a method of air locking the depot, and wanted to set up essentially a customs office.  Trade goods go into piles from the depot, then out to the stockpile level.  Won't work, but I can figure something out.

You only use alerts to send dwarves to a burrow they aren't normally in.  I think that's the bit you are missing.

Note:  an easy trick is to burrow the children in the alert burrow . They won't go running out of the city gates as soon as you activate the alert anymore!

I understand your affinity for books, but players in DF burn whatever they feel like.  Magma appears to be the solution to every problem, problem being real or perceived.  Goblin explosion?  Magma.  Too many cats?  Magma.  All the cats are adopted by dwarves?  Burn the dwarves in magma.  Dwarf can't find enough silk cloth and goes crazy from his mood?  Magma.  Dwarf uses all the adamantine to make an earring?  Magma.  Too many children?  Burrow them and flood the room with magma.  This is a community that has figured out how drop children into pits with rabid dogs for 10 years until they come out at the end of it legendary in every military skill, provided they don't go insane first. 

If children aren't even implemented in a way that won't end up getting them burnt in magma.  I assure you, there is no way to implement books without someone deciding to use magma to make it "work" differently.   

And this is why I love this game!  All I want is for bibliophiles to run the school out of the library, making it (possibly) less desirable to burn the children, or the bibliophiles, in magma.  I don't see how we got off on this tangent anyway, exactly.