D&D General Help: What to do with physical books?

[dave2008]

All my TSR and 3e stuff is in storage boxes at my parents' house. Other than than the Eberron Campaign Guide, I did 4e through a subscription, so that's gone like tears in rain. I own four physical 5e books the Player's Handbook, Eberron: Rising from the Last War, Exploring Eberron, and Chronicles of Eberron.

I think I kept my OG 1e MM (has my name written in it my 10-yr old handwriting) & MM2, BECMI books, and most if not all of my 5e books.

 

[MNblockhead]

We dropped off 20 boxes of books to Half-Priced Books (not all D&D books) and I think I only brought one box with me to Seattle. Mostly the ones with nostalgia value as you noted. I had most everything digitally, but I recently realized my flash drive with all my RPG PDFs is missing! That hurts.

Thumbs up on the Half-Priced Books trip, not on the missing flash drive.

 

[Blue]

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[MNblockhead]

[Deleted, thought this was a current thread]

It isn't?

 

[dave2008]

It isn't?

I'm the OP. I moved 2 months ago. So if @Blue 's intent was to offer me advice, then it would definitely not be current!

 

[MNblockhead]

I'm the OP. I moved 2 months ago. So if @Blue 's intent was to offer me advice, then it would definitely not be current!

I see. But you must excuse Blue for inferring, that since you are TTRPG enthusiast, that in two months you've acquired yet more books that you bought only to realize you'll never play. And finding that you are accumulating new books while you still may have unpacked boxes laying around for you move draws more attention to them. They get in the way when you are still setting up your new digs.

Further, it is often AFTER a move that I realize I needed to get rid of book. When packing, it is easy to get precious over one's collection and throw the books into a box. Especially since all the preparation needed in moving may make one less willing to make the effort to get rid of books.

Now, after carrying those boxes and moving them around town or across country...they come to feel much less precious.

We're just trying to help.

 

[dave2008]

I see. But you must excuse Blue for inferring, that since you are TTRPG enthusiast, that in two months you've acquired yet more books that you bought only to realize you'll never play. And finding that you are accumulating new books while you still may have unpacked boxes laying around for you move draws more attention to them. They get in the way when you are still setting up your new digs.

Further, it is often AFTER a move that I realize I needed to get rid of book. When packing, it is easy to get precious over one's collection and throw the books into a box. Especially since all the preparation needed in moving may make one less willing to make the effort to get rid of books.

Now, after carrying those boxes and moving them around town or across country...they come to feel much less precious.

We're just trying to help.

I typically only buy digital now. Though I will be getting hardcopies of the 2024 core books

 

[HaroldTheHobbit]

For things in general I'm pretty unsentimental and have no hoarding tendencies. Except for books. I can't bear getting rid of even a single paperback, and buy way more academia and fiction than I have time to read. I accepted long ago that this means that moving house seriously sucks. Nowadays me and my wife live in a large old house on the countryside, and realistically we will throw in the towel here, so the library will stay put.

For RPG books though, I moved to PDF only a couple of years ago.