An OCD Guide to Book Order

[JLLongshore]

I have been collecting Traveller books for years and it has finally caught up with my OCD. I can't sort all these in a reasonable order that makes sense to me on my shelf. Attached is my spreadsheet where I have my books listed and the order is as it reads. Let me know tips on how you display? Thanks JLhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...ouid=116250458027552017527&rtpof=true&sd=true

 

[Limpin Legin]

Let me know tips on how you display?

Hi, I organise my PDFs according to the Traveller Spine Codes | Mongoose with extra subfolders for Session Zero and Third Party stuff.

I actually organise, (and dynamically re-organise), the physical books according to either long term Storage Space, or short term Troupe + adventurer Skill, Aspirations and personal notes, as I use both Mongoose and non-Mongoose Sci-Fi (Science, Fiction, Survival) publications.

I also "organise" my Mongoose wishlists according to Campaign theme, meaning I have unpurchased sourcebooks+adventures+relevant JTAS+relevant other sourcebook all in the same Wishlist, and different Wishlists for different "potential" campaigns.

If you want an accurate release date/SKU cornucopia, then you won't do better than invest in the recently published A System History of Traveller - if you haven't already done so, that is.

 

[CordwainerFish]

I have been tempted at times to organize my books by accession, and implement an ILS to tell me which one is where...

 

[Terry Mixon]

And there is a thread with all the spine codes.

Traveller Spine Codes

For anyone looking for the spine numbers and their order, this will be updated periodically :) Core Books (Hexagon) – Traveller Core Rulebook (2016, 2022) Central Supply Catalogue (2016, 2022) High Guard (2016, 2022) Vehicle Handbook Traveller Companion Field Catalogue Specialist Forces Robot...

forum.mongoosepublishing.com

 

[Prodromoi]

You probably wouldn't like my bookshelf! My Traveller books (Mongoose, T5, and some of my CT stuff) are over two shelves, on two different bookcases in a "sort of, this kind of makes sense" order. I've never really planned an order for them beyond that!

 

[Arkathan]

What gets used frequently.
Everything else in a random stack.
A chaos based 3-D filing system is the perfect method of hiding anything in plain sight.
Any sane person is afraid to touch it, for good reason.
As long as nothing has been moved, the user can immediately extract anything from the pile.
Which simply justifies to the boss that their demands that a neat desk is a productive desk is utter bunk.

 

[Evil Aardvark]

I sort them by prefixing the file-name with the product-code which is a pretty bad way to do it. Sometimes it clusters books together into useful clusters and sometimes it doesn't. The only thing it has going for it is that it would be a lot of work to fix it so I've stopped worrying about it and given up.

 

[NOLATrav]

As far as PDFs, I rename everything with “Version - Title - Note” for instance:
MgT 2e Core Rules
MgT 2e Core Rules 2022

As far as physical books, the main shelf is chest level and is the active stuff. Below that is stuff I haven’t done anything with in a while (farther down is lesser used) and above that is the stuff I haven’t really gotten into yet.