Have much of your gaming books have you read?

[Arnwyn]

These questions:

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?

do not correspond to the poll question:

Have much of your gaming books have you read?

I'll assume that you just botched the poll question, and what you're really after is in your post.

My plan is to read every book I purchase. I haven't finished them all yet, but I'm certainly slogging my way through and nearing the end (maybe I'm at 80%?). (I can thank my 7 years of university and professional certification for the slowdown.)

So, yeah. I read every book I purchase - I'd never just buy a book, put it on the shelf, and never read it.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

I've read all of my books, to varying degrees. The D20 books (D&D, Star Wars, and Modern) rarely got fully read, since something in each of them never pertained to me (even as GM).

As a player, I haven't read all of the Exalted books, since there is just too much fluff that are GM changes anyway.

Other systems, I've read cover to cover at least once (often several times).

 

[WayneLigon]

I read almost all of them. There are some I will get, such as Draconomincon or Liber Mortis, or the Complete * books that I have not gone through completely. I got most of the Complete books at a store closing sale; I had not planned to buy them at all, but when I can get something for that much off, I'm probably going to take it. If I didn't like them, I could always eBay them at a profit. And you never know when a book might suddenly be unavailable. I waited on Alien Compendium for Star Wars. How was I to know they'd never do reprints and the book is now going for over a hundred bucks on eBay?

 

[Aesthetic Monk]

Put me in the "read some of them" category. I think the last one I almost finished reading cover-to-cover was Magic of Incarnum. I have very good intentions, but I'm also a very slow reader (which probably has something to do with my poor eyesight).

My dirty little secret (OK, the one I'm willing to acknowledge here) is that I just *love* ordering books (and other things, but mostly books). The thrill of "submit order" is a very strong one for me. Reading is what I'm less and less good at doing anymore.

 

[Crothian]

These questions:

do not correspond to the poll question:

They do correspond to the question. The question I want answered is the poll question. The other bit is just my thoughts on not reading the books people buy. It is just other things people can choose to respond to to help further discussion.

 

[woodelf]

Some people have more money than time. Only takes a few minutes at a shop to buy a book, but reading can take an hour or more for a larger book.

I really envy you fast readers. It would probably take me an hour to read, cover-to-cover, a book like Book of Iron Might (60pp). I'm guessing that's not what you meant by "a larger book." (And it's not just my imagination--i can't read over someone's shoulder most of the time, 'cause they turn the page when i'm less than half way done. This is true with just about every friend and coworker i've had.)

 

[Insight]

I only buy books I plan to use, so I read them all.

 

[Agamon]

Crunch isn't fun reading. Even when I first got my hands on the 3.0 PHB, I couldn't get past the A spells before I just started skimming the section. I still haven't read, front to back, the spell section of the PHB, the magic item section of the DMG, or any of the Monster Manual. The transition to 3.5 made it worse, as reading info that I already know, but may have changed a bit, is dreadfully painful.

Then there are books that look interesting or are a good deal, but I have no use for at the moment, and they get filed away, as I'm always in the middle of reading something.

I get Dungeon mag, but I don't actually read any advenutres until I planon running them. I'm glad they added articles to the mag, now I don't just grab it from the mail box and put it away.

 

[Mycanid]

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