Reading trawls

My first "trawl" started before I even relocated, and I started getting my old 3e books out and reading them again. However, I haven't been tracking that as a trawl; although since 2023, I've been tracking books that I read just for the heckuvit. I still have my original document, and I just add a new tab for a new year. So, yeah. I'm on my fourth year. But my performance hasn't been super stable. In 2023, I read 39 books. In 2024, I only read 27, although that's also the year that I relocated. In 2025, I busted out and read 107 books. This year, so far, I've read 26. If I continue to track at more or less that rate, I'll be somewhere between 50-60 for the year. I had a very slow start this year, though—I tend to think that I'll improve my pace and get closer to 75 or so. We'll see. 2026 has so far been the Year From Hell, and it doesn't look on pace to improve in the short term. Sigh. That'll probably put a dent in more than just my reading, but also my blogging, my vlogging (which has already taken a huge hit), my traveling, my sleeping, and who knows what else. It'll probably take years off my life.

Once again, if any eccentric wealthy person wants to pay me a bunch of money to go into soft retirement and make these posts and videos about gaming, the outdoors and the two together, you know how to reach me. I'll do you a solid and make videos and blog posts like it was my job. Because it would be. 

Anyway, what are the trawls that I'm doing? Let me list them and give an update:

• The Untracked Trawl - 3.5 books. I started just kind of reading them somewhat randomly, based on what I was in the mood to read. I'm still doing that. This is the only one that I'm not tracking. But it makes steady, if slow, progress.
• Freeport Trawl - The first one that I started tracking. I'm actually not that far away from finishing it, curiously. Although the books that I have left are pretty hefty.
• Eberron (3e) Trawl - This one has stalled because two independent crawls have kind of merged in a sense. The next book on it is Races of Eberron, which is one of my old 3.5 hardbacks, and I'm doing other things with my old 3.5 hardbacks (see the Untracked Trawl, above.) Maybe I just need to bite the bullet and read this one specifically so I can move on. This was the second one that I started tracking.
• Forgotten Realms (3e) Trawl - Another one that I started on a whim; if I'm reading Eberron, why not FR? I don't actually like the FR nearly as much, although I admit that there's good ideas in it. The one I'm on next, Faiths and Pantheons is one that I am specifically not that interested in, so I always end up picking up something else instead of this one, I guess.
• Pathfinder Adventure Path Trawl - I should call it Paizo rather than Pathfinder, because I started with the three adventure paths that were in Dungeon Magazine, Shackled City, Age of Worms and Savage Tide. I've already read Rise of the Runelords (again) and Curse of the Crimson Throne. I need to start the next one soon. 
• Pathfinder Modules Trawl - I figured why not; if I'm reading the adventure paths, why not the stand-alone modules too? The older 1e stuff in particular is pretty easy to find on pdf now that it's been out of print for years. Shame, though. Lots of people still remember these older ones more fondly than the pop fantasy stuff that they're doing now, which is kitschy and feels more like Pokemon meets globohomo corporate art style in comparison.
• Pathfinder Chronicles/Setting Trawl - I had a lot of the old Pathfinder Chronicles books, and the ones that I don't have are, again, readily available in either the used or pdf market (or both.) The line changed names partway through from Pathfinder Chronicles to Pathfinder Campaign Setting, if that matters. Many of these I've owned since they were new and have read before, although not in many years now.
• Pathfinder Companion Trawl - I had fewer of these, but still a lot. Why not read them too. Very early days on this trawl. I've only read a couple out of many dozen that I need to read.
• Pathfinder Rules Trawl - It would seem weird to read everything Pathfinder, especially 1e, without reading the rules books. Then again, I skipped the PHB and DMG in my 3.5 re-read, so I dunno. I haven't even started this, but I made the list and I'll track it. Probably for years. 
• 3e Adventure Trawl - I also started reading the official 3e modules, including the "pseudo-adventure path" of modules that aren't linked, but by levels, seem to at least be sequential. Of course, once I finish the last of those, I've got a bunch more official 3e modules to read that are floating out there. I'm still pretty early on this one, but it's a more manageable list.
• 3e Web Adventure Trawl - I'm on the fence about this one. There are a ton of web adventures that were released. They're all short, but there's a ton of them. I've been reading them, but not with a lot of rigor.
• Goodman Games Module Trawl - I bought a humble bundle several years ago that had dozens of Goodman Games modules in it, so I figured, what the heck—I'll list them out and read them. I have a handful of other modules here and there that I've picked up to supplement the list. This is one of the ones that I care about doing the least, but y'know. Lists are lists, and why not make one?
• 5e Campaign Trawl - I have access to most if not all of these, since I know people who play lots more 5e than I do. I thought what the heck. I'm not very far along yet. Many of these aren't super highly thought of, but some of them are. They're written more to be read than played, in my experience; they have at least somewhat engaging prose instead of toolkits and statblocks and stuff like that. Many of them are adaptations of sorts of older material too, so they're pretty familiar. Curse of Strahd is largely seen as the favorite, but it's at least the third adaptation of the same material, and I've got Expedition to Castle Ravenloft on my untracked 3e trawl already. And I've read it and the original "Ravenloft" module before anyway. So, I don't expect any of these books to blow me away, but y'know. I don't expect them to be terrible either. Most will probably be vaguely but pleasantly forgettable. 
• 3PP Trawl - Doesn't include everything, but many of the 5e campaigns that were made by 3pp belong here. Slow progress with this one too, although I retroactively added the Enemy Within Director's Cut to start the list off, so it looks like I've made more progress than I have. I also finished the first SPCM campaign, "Ghoul Island". The second one should be next, if I ever get started.
• 4e Trawl - I gradually got most of the 4e books over time here and there, and I've been meaning to read them. I actually have read many of them, but I'm now doing it a little more systematically, so some will get re-read as part of this trawl.