"How Are Your Rulebooks Organized?" Topic

Where do you put your rulebooks, and how are they organized? Alphabetically on a shelf? In boxes, by period?

4 drawer file cabinet by period then nooks and crannies in the game room and painting room. all below ground level.

-clark 182

Random piles, arranged randomly, in random rooms, covering every flat surface.

Why do I have multiple copies of several rulebooks and Ospreys you ask? Why, I have no idea…

Not.

Kind of by period/genre. More or less.

Badly

By period from earliest to latest, with naval grouped separately from land or air games of the same era.

In separate file folders in a larger file folder labelled "Gaming" on my desktop. DBA, Frostgrave, FiveCore, and Colonials all have their own file folders on the desktop.

My physical rulebooks are mostly in random book boxes in Storage, but my favorites have their own shelf on one of the bookcases in the living room.

In bookcases by period

On a book shelf categorized by size or type. "History of Wargaming Project" reprints on 1 shelf for instance.

Scattered archaeological piles throughout the house. Vaguely piled by historical period and/or last time period of active use.

Shelves by genre/game. All my Warhammer books are arranged by edition, then my Warmaster, and WM Ancients. Same for my 40K. Historical games tend be organized by war and year, ACW coming before WWII for example. Pretty much like how 21eRegt does it.

Board games are arranged on shelves based really on the game box's size and how often played, though wargames stay apart from the family/euro/ect games. No need to mix my expensive collector's Bonaparte at Marengo in with the kid's heavily played Ticket to Ride!

It's all nice and tidy in the family room. Not retentive, just pleasant to look at. Our family hates clutter. :-)

SWMBO is a librarian. I don't put them anywhere. She has them cataloged and on the regular bookshelves by Dewey.

All one one shelf, more or less. That's as far as organization goes.

What is this 'organization' of which you speak? It sounds like devil-magic to me…

My rule books are scattered all over the house.

I'm with BCantwell.

Some are on a shelf. Some are on another shelf. Some are in a cabinet on a shelf. Some are in another cabinet on another shelf. Some are in a file box. Some are in another filebox. Some are scattered around the office, neither in boxes, cabinets, or shelves.

Works for me.

Parzival and I share the same filing system.

By dice size and the number of different fire modifiers…

Mike

Randomly…….

Frequency of use.

Vizzini, "The books must be organized!"

Inigo, "I do not think that word means what he thinks it means.."

XRays has the just of it

In piles. Stuff I use is on top.

Define 'organised'.

I don't recognise the term when it comes to rules, reference materials or much else come to that.

I have drawers with labels on them – yesterday I found one whose contents matched the label. That is a rare event as I switch stuff around a lot and can't be bothered to re-write labels.

I know it would be better if I was organised but having an organised workspace and a disorganised mind wouldn't match.

I'm creative – that's my excuse, and I sticking with it !!!

Newest ones by period on a bookshelf. Have a lot of older ones and PDF versions in a drawer of a filing cabinet, random organisation.

Yep … I'm also in the random 'open' organisation camp. I'm always finding amazing things as I hunt stuff down !

Phil

All over the bookcase in the game room and sometimes by period.

Assorted in boxes. The same as my magazine games, old company catalogs, and convention booklets.

One Shelf organized by period. If I get a new rule book one of one old one hasth go into storage for sell at a future convention.

In the cupboard in a huge heap – except for the ones out of the cupboard mixed in with a pile of books.

Organised, moi ?

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha………..!!!

Good one, Bill.

In piles on one shelf, near the table.
Most recently used at the top.

Chucked on a shelf, mixed in with my RPG books, in no particular order.

Books specific to the same game are next to each other though.

More or less together in a bookcase. Except for the one I need for tomorrow's game, that will be lurking in the 8th dimension and beyond human reach.

db

pretty much what xrays said…

From prehistoric to modern for historicals and separate shelves for science fiction and fantasy in a bookcase.

I have two large shelving units. Each unit holds crates. Rule books are filed alphabetically, 3 to a folder.

At last count I owned over 475 rule books. Organization is a must!

Organized rulebooks ?!?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHAH !!!

Bill, you funny!

If they are not currently in use they are on the book shelf in my office or at our gaming club. If in use they are in my bag, or on my desk or perched precariously on the painting table as a reference. The book shelf is slightly organized in that all books for each game are together.

On the hard drive, by genre.
Same for the physical rules, on the shelf.
And, I've got ideas for rules forming in my head…

Mostly on a shelf, some are on another shelf, some are piled on top of the boxes of toys I use with them, others are lying on the floor in the bedroom having been or about to be, read. Others are jammed in my "rules modifications" notebooks where I am writing up mods.

In file cabinet in hanging folders.

By period and genre. Mostly.

they are all in my house, that's as close as they get to organized

Here is a picture of the collection – 3 bookshelves, not 3 :

And a look inside one of the crates:

On bookshelf in chronological order.

Divided milk crates by chronological order with fantasy next to MEDANC and SF last.

@extra crispy – you have shamed us all I think !