How Do You Keep Track of All Your RPG Books?

[dbm]

On a serious note, physical books are there to see, digital books are just filed in an organised way which makes it easy to check what I already have.

 

[GrimCo]

I don't. On the other hand, i'm not a collector of RPG books. I have a shelf with physical books, but i rarely buy anything new.

 

[Meech17]

I have a folder on my desktop full of other folders, and some of those are full of even more folders. I put the books in the folders that make sense. There are ones sorted by game, by setting, by edition, by type (Monster Book, Player option book, setting book, etc.)..

If there is more than one folder a book could reasonably belong to, I'll just copy it and put it in both. If I find myself looking for a book, and going to a folder that doesn't include it.. I make sure to add it to that folder once I find it.

Far from elegant but it works for me. I also don't have that many books. Maybe two or three dozen.

 

[Buzzqw]

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BHH

these are only the physical books owned!
Pdf are on NAS..

 

[Distracted DM]

I have this thing called a ‘bookcase’. No subscriptions required

How do you keep track of what's on there though? Do you keep an inventory sheet or something? Or is it like.. one little bookcase?

 

[dbm]

My memory is pretty good, I’ve got about 350 physical RPG books and am familiar with most of them. If in doubt… I look before clicking ‘buy’.

 

[Arilyn]

I head to the basement. Look at all my rpgs sitting on shelves and then explain, "I forgot about this one and it looks so good!"

 

[Distracted DM]

My memory is pretty good, I’ve got about 350 physical RPG books and am familiar with most of them. If in doubt… I look before clicking ‘buy’.

I think 350 could be pretty manageable- that's a good memory, but it makes sense why you don't see the need for anything more complex like what OP was asking for help with.

To help myself get context, I counted how many books fit on one shelf in my bookcase and it was about 50. That bookcase is a double-case, it has eight shelves total, then I have a couple more single bookcases filled.

Edit: ... I just realized that doesn't include the shelves of books thatre still at my dad's house...

 

[dbm]

The ~3,000 PDF titles are trickier but by sticking to a couple of digital shopfronts duplicates are usually avoided.

 

[ART!]

I don't.

That is not a boast!