How Do You Keep Track of All Your RPG Books?

[soviet]

I just look at my bookshelves. I know pretty much what I have (and I have quite a lot).

The one exception is MERP, which had a lot of supplements for the same region or that were pseudo-replaced with bigger second edition books. There are also some that I've read but don't own in paper form. So for MERP I do have a paper 'wants' list that I take whenever I go somewhere that might have any, to stop me getting any duplicates (or to stop me getting confused and not buying something that I actually don't have)

 

[Lanefan]

Books and box-sets are fairly easy, I can look at the shelf and see the spines with the titles on 'em, and I don't have a stupid-great number of them in any case.

Adventure modules, of which I do have a stupid-great number, aren't so easy; for those I have a list in a spreadsheet, including likely prices for the pre-2e TSR ones I don't yet have.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The possibility I mentioned the first time I posted in this thread became reality, for a few reasons not worth mentioning.

Here’s a couple pix of my Sanctum Nerdum- one of a particular corner:

and a closeup of one of the bookshelves:

The bookshelf nearest the window in the first picture is almost all D&D, except the bottom shelf.

And the books in the closeup are mostly Champions/HERO, RIFTS, and an assortment of other sci-fi and supers RPGs.

 

[GMMichael]

Try the Dewey Decimal System?

+1 for the fretless, Danny.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

to my dumpster.

This hurt my dead-tree version loving soul

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

Help! I'm drowning in books!

 

[bsycamore]

I wrote this little app, which lets me keep track i my collection

 

[Bill Zebub]

I don't. I give a lot of them away. I only keep the ones I really love. Or in which I have a credit. (The overlap is not 100%...)

 

[Duke_]

I just look at the cloud storage account where I keep all the PDFs. Almost everything I have a physical copy of that matters, I also have a digital copy. I can remember the couple of exceptions.

 

[SlyFlourish]

I don’t have a great system for physical books.

For PDFs I use /RPGs/game system/publisher/type/product.pdf without nesting that deep if I don’t need to. I might skip publisher if it’s just one publisher for a system and I can skip type if there aren’t enough PDFs to bother to split up types.

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Organize RPG PDFs and Other Digital Stuff

One effective way to organize digital RPG material is by making a directory structure of "RPGs", game system, publisher (if needed), and product type (if needed). For example /RPGs/5e/Sly Flourish/la...

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