Horus Heresy books can vanish from the internet fast, so ShelfKeepr watches for the paperbacks you’re missing and emails you when one turns up at your price.
Anyone who’s tried to collect a Horus Heresy paperback run knows how it usually goes. One finally shows up at a reasonable price while you’re asleep, and by breakfast somebody else has it.
Black Library is notorious for putting out amazing books, but not making enough of the physical prints. Even when GW does a reprint, the order window is short, and limited edition Black Library books can disappear before most of us finish reading the announcement.
So when someone who actually reads Warhammer books built something to do all the searching for you, we thought we would take a look.
- The take: ShelfKeepr takes over the eBay refreshing that hunting out-of-print Black Library books has always needed.
- The schedule: the rarest books get checked every hour on the free Watcher tier and every 30 minutes on Hunter, right through the night.
- If it works: finishing a Horus Heresy paperback run stops depending on being awake at the right moment.
Refreshing eBay at 3 a.m. Was Never Going to Work
ShelfKeepr is here to help. Just tell it which book you want and what you’re willing to pay, and it watches eBay and Etsy for you. When a copy shows up that fits, you get an email. That’s basically what Black Library collectors have been doing by hand forever, but now you have a resource to help.
Setup takes less time than priming a Rhino, too. Search for a book by title, author, or ISBN, set the most you’ll pay and the condition you’re willing to accept, and you’re done. ShelfKeepr keeps checking from there, with the rarer stuff getting looked at more often.
The check times are what really make using this worth it. Very rare titles get checked every hour on the free Watcher tier and every 30 minutes on Hunter. Rare books are checked more frequently than common stuff becasue they’ll vanish before you even notice, so checking them all the time is the obvious choice.
A common paperback will probably still be there after lunch.
When something matches, you get one email with a link straight to the listing. Buy it, or don’t; until then, the search keeps going, and ShelfKeepr will email you again if a cheaper edition shows up.
If you’re tracking a pile of books, it doesn’t hammer your inbox either, becasue one scan sends one email with everything it found.
Final Thoughts on Horus Heresy Books and ShelfKeepr
Honestly, this is kind of how hunting out-of-print Black Library books should’ve worked all along. Reprint windows come and go, paperbacks fall out of print, and fairly priced copies end up with whoever happened to be looking at the right time. Checking every 30 minutes, ignoring the dice and badges, and skipping books you already own takes a lot of the boring work out of it.
And since there’s a free tier, it’s pretty easy to just try it. Pick the one Heresy novel that’s been missing from your shelf the longest, set your price at ShelfKeepr, and let it handle the refreshing. Worst case, it costs you nothing. Best case, that email shows up before somebody else grabs the book.
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What Horus Heresy books are still missing from your shelf, and would you hand the hunt over to ShelfKeepr?
