So, who's got the most Star Trek books? Please post a picture of your collection.

[Therin of Andor]

I have no idea what I'm going to do with the hard copies, but I don't want to give them away.

When I started collecting SF Media stuff in the early 80s, conventions of 200 attendees or so still had charity auctions where rare bargains could be found and/or sold. There is always eBay now, but the packing and sending seems very time-consuming, Facebook groups seem to hate it when members try to promote items for sale there, and there seem to be far less younger fans into collecting STUFF.

The demographics have changed so much.

 

[tomswift2002]

Of course!

I've seen a number of copies of that reprint in used bookstores and they are always missing that wrapper. That's got to be one of the scarcest things now of the Trek novel line is that 6-inch-wide wrapper!

 

[John Clark]

Had a load of the numbered ones, but as I managed to get them for ebook, gave the paperbacks to charity
That said, I still have some as both (Vanguard, Destiny and Articles, probably some others - though I haven't counted)

For the non-fiction (and I include the tech manuals) still have some licenced and unlicenced ones. - For the unlicenced ones, Khai-Tam, Cheyenne and a Galileo class dreadnought one rings a bell

 

[F. King Daniel]

No pics cos my place is a mess, but I have around 500 Star Trek novels and books.

My collection started in my teens, when a visit to a Royal National Institute for the Blind charity shop had some Trek novels. I asked the guy at the till if they had any more, and he laughed in my face. Then took me out back and showed me a large cardboard box full. He asked how much, I said twenty quid. He thought about it a few seconds and said okay.

Little did I realise I had not just bought that box, but a whole row of boxes on a shelf. 350 novels. All the Trek classics. They kept me sane and entertained through a pretty dark time.

 

[The Wormhole]

I don't know exact numbers, and at this point, I'm not even sure where half of them are. But I've been buying every new Trek novel as its been released since 2012. Before that, it was sporadic. I bought a majority of them released between 2001-2004, then only a few here and there until 2011 when I started ramping up my time devoted to reading again. Also, a few years ago, I obtained my uncle's collection of pretty much every Trek novel released in the 80s and 90s.

So yeah, I have a few.

 

[Art Vandelay]

It's not the largest collection, but not the smallest either. I cherish it!

 

[ryan123450]

Cool. What are all the thin white ones along the bottom?

 

[JD]

No pics cos my place is a mess, but I have around 500 Star Trek novels and books.

That's why it's nice to have sites like Goodreads, with them you can share your collection without having to post pictures when stuff like this comes up.

 

[Tosk]

I have more than that just counting the ones with my name on them.

I also write my name on all my books.

 

[Art Vandelay]

Cool. What are all the thin white ones along the bottom?

Those are Trek World #1-63, the 1987 to 1999 run of Star Trek Central Europe's fanzine.

Thing is: Trek fandom in the US exploded in the 1970s. The same thing happened over here, belatedly, in the early 90s when NextGen started running in "daily syndication" on German TV.

Those 63 volumes capture German Trek's evolution from underground oddity to multimedia behemoth, from the fans' perspective. I just love them.

 

[David Mack]

I also write my name on all my books.

In crayon, no doubt...

 

[korblborp]

i used to have scores of trek novels, now they are all lost