... Yeah many items are interactable and you can pick them. So what?! They mean nothing as long as they are useless. I feel like I wonder in a junkyard.
Where's there's muck, there's brass, lad!
Second copy of that book. 1g That plate, another 1g Another plate, hey hey, it's silver, 50g, I'll take that. A stack of small ('useless') bottles, 67g, sure, thank you kindly.