On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 4:38 AM, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi there,

On 1 February 2018 at 23:08, Evyn MacDude <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 5:09 AM, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:
I've been meaning to do this, for those who've asked, since the start of January, but you know... life.

Anyway, for anyone who cares:
https://twitter.com/timpaa/status/959038972415660032

Heh, I have all that, and it mostly resides on a iPad.... Well the originals are all still boxed up, mostly.

I may have said elsewhere but I long had most of my books in the attic. A few years back I decided if I was going to enjoy them there was no point in them being inaccessible and decided to commit to giving them shelf space where I could reach them easily in the study.

I understand that for years my entire collection has resided in Milk crates Storage and shelves all in one.

It's from then that I reckon I date my renaissance in writing and creating Traveller material.

Cool then it worked.

With the books to hand, I could randomly pick one up for inspiration, I could check a detail in another and I could more systematically look through large swathes of them (by era or subject or whatever). Better yet, particularly with adventures and the like, I could just enjoy them for their contents.

I'm not sure, if I could work out a way of being randomly presented with *any* page from Traveller that I could take some kind of inspiration from it - for a character, an adventure, a world, a scene or even a rule - but I reckon it would be a rare page that didn't trigger something!

Having the entire collection in one place electronically is both a blessing and curse. In that when a idea occurred while sitting on the pot there is no limit on looking up the references for it.

BTW, I'm intrigued you keep yours on your iPad. I love having much of that and more on an SD card on my (android) tablet. But one of the reasons I would find it hard to go back to iPads is because there was no way of way moving all those PDFs *and* their folder/sub-folder structure over into memory. Has that changed?

Honestly, I wouldn't know I am still using a 1st Gen iPad, that I slowly loaded and sorted each edition CD/jumpdrive onto using Goodreader. As for ease I have a Surface pro as well, but that is pretty much a vanilla windows machine that I plug the drives in and copy across.

Evyn