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How Should RPG Books Be Organized - on your shelf?
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<blockquote data-quote="Echohawk" data-source="post: 9177961" data-attributes="member: 9849"><p>Oh gosh. This thread needs a trigger warning <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>I have close to 4,000 print RPG products (including magazines) and perhaps another 1,500 novels and reference books. How to organize them is a constant struggle!</p><p></p><p>My novels are organized pseudo-library style, by genre then author, but then grouped by series, rather than strictly by title. Novels are easy.</p><p></p><p>My RPG books are generally grouped by shape/type of product first, so all of the boxed sets share shelves because they stack better with each other than with hardcovers and softcovers. After that, I organise by RPG, then edition and/or campaign setting. The 4e stuff and the 5e stuff each has its own section. For earlier editions, things are sorted mostly by campaign setting, so the first two decades of Forgotten Realms stuff is together. On any specific shelf, within an edition or a setting, books are placed in release date order, unless there is a compelling reason not to do that (e.g. the 5e special covers are all together, not mixed in with the normal covers).</p><p></p><p>Magazines have a separate set of shelves to themselves. Those are placed in order, obviously, with boxes that keep large numbers of magazines together more neatly. Note to any robbers: If you are in a hurry, go for the box with the first 40-odd issues of Dragon in it. Per kilogram that's by far the highest value item in the house!</p><p></p><p>Organising a collection once takes time, but isn't stressful. What makes it a constant struggle is regularly adding new items. Any organizational scheme fails eventually if you keep adding stuff. An accurate description of my current library would be 90% "obsessively carefully organised" plus 10% "new stuff shoved into any available air gap between the shelves and the well organised books".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echohawk, post: 9177961, member: 9849"] Oh gosh. This thread needs a trigger warning :D :D :D I have close to 4,000 print RPG products (including magazines) and perhaps another 1,500 novels and reference books. How to organize them is a constant struggle! My novels are organized pseudo-library style, by genre then author, but then grouped by series, rather than strictly by title. Novels are easy. My RPG books are generally grouped by shape/type of product first, so all of the boxed sets share shelves because they stack better with each other than with hardcovers and softcovers. After that, I organise by RPG, then edition and/or campaign setting. The 4e stuff and the 5e stuff each has its own section. For earlier editions, things are sorted mostly by campaign setting, so the first two decades of Forgotten Realms stuff is together. On any specific shelf, within an edition or a setting, books are placed in release date order, unless there is a compelling reason not to do that (e.g. the 5e special covers are all together, not mixed in with the normal covers). Magazines have a separate set of shelves to themselves. Those are placed in order, obviously, with boxes that keep large numbers of magazines together more neatly. Note to any robbers: If you are in a hurry, go for the box with the first 40-odd issues of Dragon in it. Per kilogram that's by far the highest value item in the house! Organising a collection once takes time, but isn't stressful. What makes it a constant struggle is regularly adding new items. Any organizational scheme fails eventually if you keep adding stuff. An accurate description of my current library would be 90% "obsessively carefully organised" plus 10% "new stuff shoved into any available air gap between the shelves and the well organised books". [/QUOTE]
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