Moving all my D&D books made me realise how much I appreciate D&D Beyond

I own pretty much all the official D&D 5e/5.5e books, baring a selection of adventures pre-Yawning Portal. Recently I've had to fix some lighting electronics in the cabinet I store all my books in, requiring me to empty said cabinet and move all my books up to the bedroom.

A single cubbies worth of books is back-breaking and I have to move 5 of them. It was doing this that made me realise how much physical labour DDB saves me. I'm so used to only taking maybe the core three and an adventure to game night, and referencing everything else on phones or tablets, I'd forgotten how weighty physical books are.

Don't get me wrong, I love the physicality, and the LTE covers are gorgeous if you can get them. But I don't love the free workout...

I had to move the D&D bookshelves around last October when we had our floors re-done. Taking all the books (and the dice and minis) off the bookshelves, moving the bookshelves, moving stacks of books to put them all back on the bookshelves, and then doing it all again after the floors were done was a lot. I genuinely love having the books, but dang am I happy I never have to take them anywhere.

I got a whole wooden chest that I built myself in college with all my books in it and its currently filled up side to side, with some other dnd stuff like a box of Legos for minis and grid templates. It is heavy as hell, and I don't know how I would survive trying to cart around the PHB, Xanathar, Heroes of Faerun, Monsters of the Multiverse, and Horros Wothin without breaking my back... and that's as a player without needing to bring monster books and adventure modules...

I've got a bunch of D&D books, 3rd party books and stuff for other systems and I'm likely staring down the barrel of a forced house move in the next couple of years. I dread what's to come. Time for some weight training perhaps? 😂

I don't know what you're talking about, they're not that heavy <tries to ignore very obviously bowing in the middle book shelf containing D&D books>

But seriously I agree, taking just my ipad and phone to a game and being able to look things up on that saves my already heavy DM bag from becoming totally impractical. The only thing that would make it better is pdfs (and I know WotC will never do it) but the digital copies of third party books mean I can carry a full library in one hand 

Quote from CunningSmile >>

I don't know what you're talking about, they're not that heavy <tries to ignore very obviously bowing in the middle book shelf containing D&D books>

 I specifically got a Kallax so that I wouldn't have to fear this. In my old place, my Billy bookcase took one for the team in the name of D&D

Moving all my D&D books three times over the past three years has made me appreciate the other RPG companies that let me purchase pdf copies without platform-lock...

Quote from Davyd >>

 I specifically got a Kallax so that I wouldn't have to fear this. In my old place, my Billy bookcase took one for the team in the name of D&D

 
Yeah this is probably the right way to go. Does anybody have a hot take about storing books horizontally v vertically?

Quote from CunningSmile >>

I don't know what you're talking about, they're not that heavy <tries to ignore very obviously bowing in the middle book shelf containing D&D books>

But seriously I agree, taking just my ipad and phone to a game and being able to look things up on that saves my already heavy DM bag from becoming totally impractical. The only thing that would make it better is pdfs (and I know WotC will never do it) but the digital copies of third party books mean I can carry a full library in one hand 

 Between my D&D books and all my X-Men omnibus collections, just about every bookshelf I have is bowing a bit in the middle. I'm thinking it might be time to look into some proper bookshelves instead of these old cheap ones.