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Post by paulie on Apr 14, 2015 15:33:03 GMT -5
I'd guess maybe 10%, but I tend to let price dictate a purchase too often and (unless it's a current series) I usually wait until I have an entire run before I start. Another thing is, I have lots of omnibuses, and I've realized I just don't like that format much anymore. I've also dumped my collection multiple times, so a lot of stuff I have read isn't in my collection now. I have gotten into that habit as well... collecting an entire series and then doing a marathon read. In the last year I've done that with Kirby's 2001 series, Ostrander's Spectre. The problem is that you end up with 30, 40, 50 issue runs just dying in your long boxes. I'm looking at you Dreadstar and those damnable missing issues, 5,6 and 8!!! |
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 18, 2015 20:52:37 GMT -5
I'm in the same habit, but it can backfire. Years ago I bought the entire Checkmate series over a few years and when I finally read, it it bored me to tears. I never finished reading it.
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Post by shaxper on Apr 19, 2015 7:56:10 GMT -5
Yep. That accounts for most of my unread books too -- runs I either haven't started or which are so long that it will take me ages to finish them.
My oldest run I've still yet to read: I bought the complete volume 1 of Excalibur back in 2003 and still haven't gotten around to it yet.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 19, 2015 8:17:30 GMT -5
And I will throw myself into the group of "I won't read it until it's complete" folks. I have every issue of Iron Man in one form or fashion EXCEPT for #47, which is pricey because Barry Windsor-Smith did the art, and I refuse to start reading the series until I have that, because I'll feel cheated when I get to its place in the series, even though I am pretty sure it's just a recap issue of IM's origin. Same thing with nearly complete runs of Daredevil, Thor, and FF; they sit there, unread, year after year, as I work on picking up the missing issues.
Thankfully, I can start reading Captain America and The Avengers this year, as well as some shorter series (Marvel Two-In-One, Tomb of Dracula, Thunderbolts).
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 19, 2015 9:14:11 GMT -5
These days , I read them as i get them. Back in the day, you could figure out was was happening without buying the prior issues.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 19, 2015 13:02:13 GMT -5
I'll do that to some extent for smaller runs, but not major characters or teams that have run for many years.... Runs like Iron Man and Captain America aren't really one story... while I'd like to have all of everything, I'm happy to read what I have, then got back and read it again if I fill in a hole. That said, I do love having a whole run to sit and read  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2015 13:44:23 GMT -5
Yeah, I was more referring to shorter series/specific writers. I won't wait until I have every Fantastic Four to start reading, but I will wait for all the Lee/Kirby run.
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Post by clutterstuffmichael on Apr 25, 2015 22:41:55 GMT -5
I've read every book in my collection, a lot of them multiple times! I always read books as soon as I buy them. I don't buy as many as I used to, but I have started picking a few up again. I've also read many more comics that I no longer own. I have lost bits of my collection over the 20+ years I have been collecting due to floods, moves, etc. I have also given away a lot of comics over the years to children who seemed interested---have to try to nurture the next generation of collectors! |
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Post by SJNeal on Apr 30, 2015 2:12:52 GMT -5
At one point, 100%. But that was about 15 yrs ago. Now it's closer to 50%…
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2015 14:34:00 GMT -5
In preparation for my midlife crisis big read I cataloged all my comics and genre fiction into one giant to read list-every comic issue (whether as floppy or in a trade), every short story, novella, novelette, and novel, every comic strip daily or Sunday, etc. etc. I had been tracking what I read since 2010, so I marked off as read anything I had read from 2010 forward and the result is that I have only read 15% of the list. Now I have actually read a great many of that 85% of "unread material" just not since 2010. In that 85% is the entire run of the Avengers Vol. 1, Gaiman's Sandman, Moore's Swamp Thing, and other treasured runs I have read, just not since 2010... A good third to 40% of the list is prose fiction not comics or comic strips too, so the tally doesn't exactly fit, and skews the tally some as reading 1 comic counts as much as reading 1 novel to the percentage read. It also doesn't account for the vast amount of stuff I read since 2010 that I decided not to keep and have given away/sold/traded and thus removed from the list. If I had estimate how much of the stuff there has been read pre-2010 I would be a lot closer to 50%. But I am only tracking post-2010 as I hope to reread a lot of those treasured runs in the months and years to come, so the official tally for now is 15%. My goal is to break 20% by year's end, but we'll see. That's a lot of reading to get to. -M After a purge of stuff I was pretty sure I would never read, and adding a few of the long runs I read pre-2010 into the read column, my tally just hit the 25% mark this weekend. I have pretty much been binge reading from my stacks since this thread was started by Shax. Well see how long this flurry of reading lasts though. -M |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Aug 18, 2015 18:05:55 GMT -5
I am always behind. I have stuff that I have just because I like it but it is constantly getting replaced by newer more exciting stuff that I enjoy more. For example, I have a nice little smattering of Defenders issues between #30-100 waiting to be read. Same for some FF books and Avengers books from the early 80's.
As a result, I would estimate 100-150 unread books. Not too bad out of a collection of roughly 1500.
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Post by batlaw on Aug 18, 2015 23:35:57 GMT -5
Read 99.9% of my collection. Maybe a dozen or so items out of many thousands that I havnt read or never finished.
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Post by coveredinbees on Aug 18, 2015 23:55:01 GMT -5
I'm drowning in Fantastic Four and Avengers issues! : D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2015 1:26:22 GMT -5
I'm drowning in Fantastic Four and Avengers issues! : D I'd get them out of the liquid before they all get water damaged   -M |
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Post by Trevor on Aug 19, 2015 7:06:48 GMT -5
At one point, 100%. But that was about 15 yrs ago. Now it's closer to 50%… Pretty much this. Back in my heyday of the 70s and 80s, I read everything and kept up month to month with each title. Then in the 90s and 00s I was totally out of monthly buying for a year or three at a time, occasionally going on back issue purchase binges. Now that I am fully back in the hobby for good, and have bought thousands of back issues in the last couple years, I find that I'm not only decades behind in reading, but there is too much content to keep up month to month. I read nothing month to month, but only complete story arcs sometimes years or decades after they finish. I think I'll eventually catch up, but not until I'm a decade into a hopefully future retirement. |
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