The short answer is that the hardcovers aren't a good format to read the currently popular line-wide crossover events in. It was okay back when crossovers meant 2, maybe 3 titles participating, because you just chuck all 3 series into the collection.
But you can't do that when it's all 18 of your major titles, plus 3 minis. Or whatever. It's one of the primary reasons why I'm getting exasperated with the crossover fappery in the industry.
The more precise answer is that even if you picked up all the appropriate collections, you'd still ideally want to break them down by issue to come up with a decent reading order. And that's often a nuisance in collections, since most will strip all of the synopsis pages, and stick all the covers at the end, if they bother to include the individual covers at all.
So, ironically enough (for the industry, which views these massive crossovers as great ways to boost sales), the best way to read these events is to pirate the individual issues digitally, or to borrow a friend's collection, since those are the two easiest ways to read sequentially by issue.
The other alternative, that is actually somewhat reasonable, is to pick up the "main" line (Civil War, in this case), along with one, maybe two titles (or franchise's miniseries) that cross into the event (X-Men: Civil War, in your case), and try to work out the break points for the issues so you can swap back and forth, which isn't an insurmountable task for 2 or 3 titles. The one positive thing about Marvel's events since House of M is that they at least do the reader the courtesy of containing the most important stuff that's necessary for following how the event affects your specific area of interest in the main title, either by directly depicting all the critical pieces, or alluding to them via newscasts or dialogue that summarizes relevant bits that happen in the intersecting titles. So you can get away with reading only the main title and whatever else interests you, and still be clued into what's happening with the titles you're reading.
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