PGN Chessbook? Alternatives?

So, as a returnee from nearly 50 years of little-to-no chess, there's a lot to catch up on for me!

This whole idea of "pgn" files that you can load, etc., is very cool.

So, now I'm looking for something where I can store my games, annotate them and print them out PDF-style with diagrams, etc.  (from a laptop, not a phone/iPad).  Google's top hit was "PGN Chessbook".

How is that?  Do you have any other recommendations?  (I want to start off with something free, at least until I get the hang of this, but if there are excellent ones that cost, please add that to the discussion, too?)

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I looked more at PGN Chessbook, and it seems that I can't create a game by pasting in a PGN file E.g., if I wanted to use a game from chess.com, I'd have to download it to my laptop, and then open it from PGN-C.  It'd be nice to just copy and paste right from one to the other.

Any other thoughts?  Any other tools out there for this?

Thanks!

For free software, I have used:

• ChessX
• SCID (or the related SCID Vs PC)

Both are worth a try and may do all that you need.

For paid database software, ChessBase is pretty much the gold standard. It's not cheap, and may be more than you require. If you don't want to create or edit databases, and just need to read PGN files that you download, then the free ChessBase Reader may suit.

For myself, I keep a database of my own games (I used to use SCID before moving to ChessBase), separate databases of study positions from books as well as downloaded reference material, so ChessBase Reader isn't sufficient.

Hope that helps.

Edit: added link to SCID Vs PC