Book shelving problem

[Gemmaker]

Hello, first time posting.

I tried looking online but there doesn't seem to be an answer to my particular problem. You see, I like many of you put my pathfinder books on library shelves. But I've discovered a problem and the answer eludes me so I turn to the hive mind of the internet.

You see, the problem is that the Adventure Path softcover books are not perfectly rectangular. The spine is actually thicker than the entire book. Which means that, when I stack the books from left to right vertically, eventually the further right I go on the shelf, the rear of the books are actually diagonal rather than perpendicular to the shelf. It bends the book and makes it harder to remove or put back in.

The problem occurs on other similar softcover books, but it's most obvious with these, so any answer can be used for the other books. Also placing them horizontally and stacked on top of each other doesn't really remove the problem, and it makes it harder to remove individual books or to place them back in. I could place hardcovers in between each AP installment, but I'd rather not mix books together like that.

So, I'm not the only one with the AP books, am I missing the obvious answer? How do you fine fellow gamers shelve your AP books? Is there a way to place all the AP books from left to right, vertically, without the back end being diagonal and being bent?

Thank you and have a good day!

[GM Budman]

I use cardboard magazine holders to hold and separate my AP softcovers on my bookshelves. You can fit 2 1/2 APs-worth (i.e. 15) softcovers in one magazine holder.

[Damon Griffin]

GM Budman wrote:

I use cardboard magazine holders to hold and separate my AP softcovers on my bookshelves. You can fit 2 1/2 APs-worth (i.e. 15) softcovers in one magazine holder.

Same here.

[Selene Spires]

I don't have the the same problem..,though I don't tightly pack the books on the shelves.

[Cpt_kirstov]

I use the flip mats, they have the same problem, so I put a flip mat in between 2 APs so the flip mat spine is facing the back of my bookshelf.

[Steve Geddes]

I use magazine holders. I store six AP issues, two map folios and a pawn set in each one. I can usually pad it out with a notebook and any Player Companions/Campaign Setting books which I think will be useful to the campaign.

Something I used to do which worked okay was to turn the even issues around so the spine was inside the bookshelf and the pages were displayed. It was easy enough to identify which book was which. Didn’t work so well for large sets of Campaign Sourcebooks.

[Gemmaker]

Hi everyone.
Just wanted to let you know that your suggestions were very helpful, I went with cardboard boxes magazine holders, got ones that fit in my bookshelf and can hold 3 APs with a bit of room to spare, it's perfect.
Thank you for your help.