Have much of your gaming books have you read?

[Psychic Warrior]

at this point in time I have 274 3.0/3.5/D20 OGL books. I have read 99% of them.


[Edit]
From previous D&D incarnations I have 230 or so. (Not every book is cataloged at this time) I have read them all.

Wow! And you're 'just a player'?


I think my entire RPG collection is about 250 books.

 

[el-remmen]

I read some of every book, but rarely all of any book.

 

[Eosin the Red]

I read every book unless I buy it only to find out that it sucks. I may even read those books that suck if the topic is one that I am interested in.

I don't read every article of Dungeon or Dragon.

 

[Wombat]

Cover to cover? I'd say about 70%.

All of the rules? 65%, roughly.

All of the fluff? 85%, roughly.

 

[Lord Mhoram]

It seems a bit odd to me that people would buy a book and then just stick it on their shelf. To help me not get too many books I read ever RPG book I get cover to cover. I'm curious how many other people do that? And why do people get books they don't read?

I skim everything I buy, and read about 30% cover to cover right away.

As for why, two reasons. One I'm an obsessive collector and I get my books cheap.
Second, I buy books I know I will use at some point but not right now. If I am running a beginning campaign, I'll buy a high level adventure for later, or a sourcebook for something that I might only stick on the other side of the world... that sort of thing.

Or in the case of the HERO books I buy, I get the genre stuff of the games I don't play know, because I know, at some point, I will, and if I already have the books it makes it easier.

 

[KB9JMQ]

Why would you collect something you found bland?

Well at that time I still collected all things D&D (back when I was rich and had no kids ha ha).
I had also hoped I would like the setting better after a few more books came out, but that didn't happen.
Now I just get the books I really want. I skim them as soon as I get them then go back for a more thorough reading later.

 

[Voadam]

I want to read things cover to cover and do so systematically (currently 300 pages into Penumbra Fantasy Bestiary) but not rapidly.

However I have a large backload and keep getting things. All of what I buy now are pdfs and most of what I buy now are things I have in print (so I can copy and paste and get better functionality out of the vast amounts I do have) and things on big sale that I'm interested in (picked up four malhavok books last night). Things I have not read cover to cover I have skimmed for the parts that interest me and consider them reference books I can go to when I want to check things out on their subject (for instance if I want a wilderness night encounter I pull up the EN Critters campfire pdf and click through the appropriate CR monsters for ones that inspire me).

 

[JoeGKushner]

Absolutely on reviews. The problem is I buy far more products than I can review in a month (here and elsewhere). I can normally do about 2 per week, and have been doing so for almost a year, but the pile of pdfs just keeps getting bigger.

Pinotage

Get out of my mind!

And then the time it takes to write the review... ugh!

 

[Jedi_Solo]

I have read some of all the books I own.

I have read most of most of the books I own.

I have read all of almost none of the books I own.

 

[freebfrost]

I'm not quite sure which poll option to take - I buy way more books than I can ever read, but I inevitably find something while skimming the books that I will use in a current game.

So, I skim each book but only read parts of them is my answer.