"Shelve Rules with History Books?" Topic

Do you store all your rule sets with all your relevant history books? Sci-fi and Fantasy rules in with the novels? Or are all your rule sets organized together?

1) Together
2) Separate
3) ?

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2 – All rule books in one spot.

2, running temporally left to right from Ancients to Science Fiction

2. I don't have room for all the Military history books (and scifi plus fantasy) much less all the rule sets I own.

I actually have 3 categories, all shelved separately:

1) History books
2) Painting guides (includes some coffee-table picture-book style history books)
3) Rules

Within each category are sub-categories by period/genre.

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Seperate.

Wargames rules are in four different places:

1. Most bound rules on their shelf.

2. Stapled and some rarely-referenced rules (such as prior editions) in file boxes in the closet.

3. Printed PDF's in color-coded folders on their shelf.

4. Current reading on the office table or shelf in the nightstand. I'm way behind on that, I have bought scads of rulebooks in the last few months I have barely cracked. But that was the old year.

My collection is larger than most. I have three large heavy duty shelves loaded with 24 milk crates. Rule books are stored alphabetically by title in file folders. If I happen to be reading one it is on my nightstand.

I don't really have any paper books any more, for reading I have gone fully Kindle.

Just looked. I own 913 rule sets

Seperate shelving for everything.

Wargames on one shelf.
RPG books on two shelves of their own (white wolf upstairs, everything else downstairs)
Board games have a few shelves.
Military books have their own bookshelf downstairs.
Fantasy/scifi upstairs on one bookshelf (so the kid knows where to get stuff).
Assorted other books mushed together on the other two book shelves upstairs with a single shelf for political books and booklets.

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All over the place.

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SWMBO has them all tagged and sorted in the shelves by Dewey, so … no.

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1. Uniform Guides
2. Rules
3. Stuff on Writing Rules
4. Scenarios
5. The Binders--really short rules to go with each batch of figures. The binders will sometimes contain short campaign guides or scenarios. Trick is a binder is not period but army-specific. If there's a binder kept with 28mm individually-mounted fantasy and medieval, everything in that binder will work with those castings. The DBA stuff is somewhere else.

If I were this organized in a battle, I'd win more.

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Definitely 1. It has made finding lost rules sets much easier.

The most important book is of course one's dictionary (Oxford English, needless to say). Where ever you have that one stashed, please all go to it right now and look up the spelling of both 'anal' and then 'retentive'.

If they appear next to each other on the same page in your copy, I think I can see a pattern developing…

John Treadaway

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+1 John Treadaway

Mine go (as do all my books) where they fit.

Rules/'how to' books live by the figure shelves…..Anything connected to the actual history is on the main bookshelves

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