As the title suggests, I’m curious how you keep tabs on your library of RPG rulebooks, adventures, supplements, splats, etc.
Google Sheet, using different tabs to organize different system families, catch-alls, generic/non-system-specific stuff, accessories, and pawns (as in Pathfinder and Starfinder - luckily the Pathfinder wiki and so on provided lists, so I could just copy/paste those into the sheet).
So I have a D&D (all editions, official stuff only) tab, an OSR tab (which might get split out so I can have a separate *Borg games tab), a tab for accessories, a tab for Pawns, a tab for system neutral stuff (books of random tables), a tab for accessories (various card sets, generators, books on mapping), a tab for Cortex, a tab for Supers RPGs, and so on.
The other big thing worth noting is that I don't collect anymore. I don't hold onto things unless I'm using them, planning to use them soon, or use them as a constant reference. So I've probably sold off more RPGs than many people ever own. I just don't have the room for it. So it's all gotta fit on a single (albeit large) book shelf. That helps keep it manageable.
...Until you look at my digital library ;-) Now THAT is a beast. I use Google Drive and have a subfolder within RPGs called "Bookshelf" and then its organized by game, or rarely game system if it's a fairly contained family of games. So D&D has a folder, then within that each edition, plus a catch-all OSR folder that then has Castles & Crusades, Mork Borg (and its family) etc. Cortex is all in one folder, but that is honestly a pretty unwieldy folder. I keep all the Year Zero games separate, because there's enough of them and they are often pretty different. And so on. I have a gazillion games though, thanks to years of bundles, charities, freebies and quick starts, and so on.
I think the moral of the story here is either (a) use spreadsheets and cloud storage or (b) don't be like me, and build your wealth instead of buying this many things you'll never even read or play. What was the original question again?
