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Post by berkley on Mar 3, 2021 15:07:12 GMT -5
In storage I have the comics that I bought off the stands in late 1977 thru May 1978. I still haven't read them. ooh, there's probably some good ones in there! Marvel was still producing a lot of good comics around that time, IIRC. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Mar 4, 2021 11:07:22 GMT -5
I've never really had a comics reading backlog. Even when I was regularly purchasing comics. I would usually always read what I purchased before I purchased more. Now books are another thing. I have about a dozen fiction and non-fiction books that I haven't read yet. Some bought almost a year ago. Non-fiction I especially buy when that subject is on my mind or something happening in life that it will help me with. And then if I don't read it at that time for whatever reason it sits around until I am ready to read up on that subject again.
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Post by impulse on Mar 4, 2021 11:58:57 GMT -5
When DVDs were still a major thing, I had some I later sold at garage sales without ever breaking the cellophane.
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Post by The Captain on Mar 4, 2021 13:03:40 GMT -5
I literally own thousands of comics I've never read. Probably a good 4K or more.
I started buying and reading comics in the early 80s, but it was only a handful of series to start. Got a bigger pull list when I went to college, then let it dwindle over the course of the 90s as money and interest waned.
After graduating college with my second degree, getting married and settling down, and securing a good-paying professional job, I got back into the hobby. Relying on dollar boxes and the Warehouse Sale at New Dimension Comics in Ellwood City, PA (could fill a long box for $225 back in the day), I compiled long runs of the major Marvel titles going back to the late Silver/early Bronze Ages, picking up books pre-MCU that are impossible to find cheap any more. Lots of keys for $1 or less that today run $20 or more.
Doing that twice a year created a backlog that I am still to this day, 15 years later, working my way through.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2021 13:58:17 GMT -5
I don't think I own any entertainment that I have not read or listened to or watched...
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 4, 2021 14:00:08 GMT -5
I have literally hundreds of prose books I haven't read. Possibly thousands.
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Post by shaxper on Mar 4, 2021 14:25:06 GMT -5
In my early 20s, I was buying comics so fast that I wasn't even giving much thought as to when I would read them all. Then I found this community, and I started to get a lot more excited about taking the time to read what I owned. In my 30s, I had nearly 6000 comics in my collection that I'd not yet read. Now, in my forties, the number is 2,802. I don't read as much as I used to now that I have three kids and a girlfriend who actually wants me around, but I figure I might read close to everything by the time I hit 70.
As for the unread novels I own, I don't think I'll ever read them all, but I love having choices.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2021 18:19:08 GMT -5
I'm always behind in reading, watching, listening, etc.
It's been that way for somewhere around 15 years now.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 4, 2021 18:27:33 GMT -5
With maybe a handful of prose books, and a similarly small number of comics being the exception, I've read everything in my book and comic collection.
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Post by Calidore on Mar 4, 2021 20:23:27 GMT -5
I've read all my comics and listened to all my CDs, but haven't read all my books or watched all my videos. Or played quite all my video games, but that's at least in the realm of possibility.
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Post by Duragizer on Mar 5, 2021 0:41:41 GMT -5
I suffer from what the Japanese have coined tsundoku. Comics I can read fast enough, but I'm slower with print, much slower than I used to be, and easily distracted. Yet I keep buying books. I've weeded all the stuff I'm not in love with/likely to get around to, and I've still run out of shelf space.
I'm much better when it comes to videos and music. I tend to only buy stuff I've already viewed/listened to and know I like.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Mar 5, 2021 13:31:24 GMT -5
I've read all my comics and listened to all my CDs, but haven't read all my books or watched all my videos. Or played quite all my video games, but that's at least in the realm of possibility. This is the same for me too. Especially in the later years of the PS3 and 360 as the new consoles started to emerge. Both consoles had amazing sales on games and I would buy them knowing it would take forever to get through them all. Even physical discs at video game stores plummeted and I would buy more. I probably have 50-60 games on those two consoles alone unplayed. Not to even mention how many Wii games I bought and have never played yet. Both disc and VC games. |
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Post by shaxper on Mar 6, 2021 20:29:39 GMT -5
Amber said "yes" this afternoon. Been a lot of stress in my life as of late, but knowing I've got her in my life for the longhaul is the most comforting idea ever.
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Post by Crimebuster on Mar 6, 2021 20:50:46 GMT -5
Amber said "yes" this afternoon. Been a lot of stress in my life as of late, but knowing I've got her in my life for the longhaul is the most comforting idea ever. Congratulations! |
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Post by brutalis on Mar 6, 2021 21:19:57 GMT -5
Amber said "yes" this afternoon. Been a lot of stress in my life as of late, but knowing I've got her in my life for the longhaul is the most comforting idea ever. Congratulations to you both! Happy for you Shaxper. It's nice to know good things are happening for good people during these crazy days. |
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