Well, that was also one of the things that made me pause in my Previews ordering.
The individual pamphlet issues I treat as though they were ... well, pamphlets or magazines. Which is to say, I throw most of them out. It's kind of a waste of money, which is why I don't actually buy a huge number of them -- of the ones on any given week's "maybe I'll buy this" list, I tend to wind up with half or less. On the other hand, most entertainment is technically disposable income per se, so it doesn't bother me a lot to just chuck most of them when I'm done ... although I had to wrestle with it for a while. And the Strange Horizons gig has complicated that a bit; it both leads me to buy more and to keep more around, because I never know when I'll need to talk about something.
The trades and the few individual issues that I keep do, indeed, contribute to moving being such a pain in the ass. In fact, with the exception of a very few items, almost all of the comics growth has come in the last decade, so none of it ever has moved, and I really don't want to think about the pain in the rear that it's going to be to move them someday.
That said, I have an entire room of paperback and hardback noncomics books where my philosophy has shifted from DON'T THROW ANY BOOKS OUT EVER! to "Who will rid me of these troublesome things? Anyone? Anyone? Buehler? Buehler? ... OK, to the trash they go, then!" So I expect my attitude about the comics trades will move as well.
Honestly, if the entire comics industry would move to authorized and easily usable downloadable formats, it would make my life much simpler.
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The individual pamphlet issues I treat as though they were ... well, pamphlets or magazines. Which is to say, I throw most of them out. It's kind of a waste of money, which is why I don't actually buy a huge number of them -- of the ones on any given week's "maybe I'll buy this" list, I tend to wind up with half or less. On the other hand, most entertainment is technically disposable income per se, so it doesn't bother me a lot to just chuck most of them when I'm done ... although I had to wrestle with it for a while. And the Strange Horizons gig has complicated that a bit; it both leads me to buy more and to keep more around, because I never know when I'll need to talk about something.
The trades and the few individual issues that I keep do, indeed, contribute to moving being such a pain in the ass. In fact, with the exception of a very few items, almost all of the comics growth has come in the last decade, so none of it ever has moved, and I really don't want to think about the pain in the rear that it's going to be to move them someday.
That said, I have an entire room of paperback and hardback noncomics books where my philosophy has shifted from DON'T THROW ANY BOOKS OUT EVER! to "Who will rid me of these troublesome things? Anyone? Anyone? Buehler? Buehler? ... OK, to the trash they go, then!" So I expect my attitude about the comics trades will move as well.
Honestly, if the entire comics industry would move to authorized and easily usable downloadable formats, it would make my life much simpler.