what percentage of your books have you read?

[Limited66]

Maybe 90%, I worry about reading my GA stuff - that I'll damage it or the oil from my hands will hurt the book.

[catrick339]

90% +

 

When I buy up a collection there are always some stacks of stuff I haven't read...and probably won't ever. Charlton romance. Super Duck. Woody Woodpecker. Battle of the Planets. And so forth.

 

Which is not to say that I haven't sampled and enjoyed all of the above, but I've read enough exemplars to know that if I miss reading a few issues I can live with it.

 

However, if they get tossed into the stack next to the basement john they all eventually get read. The trick is to get tossed into the stack,

[Cody_Starbuck]

100%

[Shark]

Probably about .01%.......I'm so busy buying, bagging, boarding, grading, selling and shipping comics I don't have any time to read 'em!

 

Shark

[jordanscott]

100%

 

I buy to read.

[toro]

100%, all the slabbed Silver Age I own I read as a kid.

[Count]

25%

[awe4one]

I'd say about 95%. Having some in slabs makes it a tad difficult...

 

Jim

[Boozad]

Round about 50% I reckon. Most of these were read when I was first collecting comics before they got binned. Since I started collecting again I've replaced most of the stuff but added lot more than I used to have.

 

Having two young kids and a job with a lot of hours limits my reading time to about an hour a week. Someday I'll manage to read the lot though!

 

[chromium]

I'm really very impressed by all the people that have read 80% of their collection

But for the likes of me I can't understand where everybody finds the time

 

If I can read 20 - 30 books in a week, then it's been a good week and at that rate it will still take me another 4-5 years to read all my books, providing I don't buy any more books during that period (yeah right )

 

So how do you guys do it ?

[KEY ISSUES Comics]

100% for me when I bought books to read.

 

Now, I'd have to say I only read moderns, beat up oldies, and TPBs/GNs. The vintage stuff is purchased for investment purpose/cover art appreciation, so I'd say about 30% of what I currently purchase is read.

[MR.COMICBOOK]

I would love to read but things happen.I have so many Omnibus,Absolute Editions ...etc just sitting in my closet.I can`t even find time to read one floppy. Ever since the internet my attention span has been shot. I can`t just sit there and read a book.I tried then something comes up on the tv or thier is a email I have to answer. This was before my 1 year old daughter was born now I have even less time. I do try to read moderns maybe thats why my attention span for comics is not like it use to be.

[awe4one]

I'm really very impressed by all the people that have read 80% of their collection

But for the likes of me I can't understand where everybody finds the time

 

If I can read 20 - 30 books in a week, then it's been a good week and at that rate it will still take me another 4-5 years to read all my books, providing I don't buy any more books during that period (yeah right )

 

So how do you guys do it ?

 

Most were read over the years. Regardless, I make sure to browse through every comic I get before filing it away. If I hadn't read it before, I read it. Only takes 5 minutes or so...

 

Jim

[kidcolt]

Over 95%, I buy comics to read. Besides my CGC SS books I have reads almost every single issue I own.

[Comic_Diva]

100% excluding duplicates, if I buy it, I read it.

[Point Five]

100% excluding duplicates, if I buy it, I read it.

(thumbs u

[rodan57]

99% (this is excepting slabbed books that I did not originally own and read when a child).

 

Of course, it helps to keep the percentage high when I only buy a Modern once in a blue moon. (thumbs u

[sakaridis]

I'm really very impressed by all the people that have read 80% of their collection

But for the likes of me I can't understand where everybody finds the time

 

If I can read 20 - 30 books in a week, then it's been a good week and at that rate it will still take me another 4-5 years to read all my books, providing I don't buy any more books during that period (yeah right )

 

So how do you guys do it ?

 

Well, new books, I mostly read them as they come. I get my new books every two weeks on Friday, and I always manage to finish them before the weekend is over (mostly excluding TPB's and graphic novels. As for back issues, I just try to read as many as I can, in order to not get too far behind.

 

I probably average about 7-10 books per day, mostly late at night (or to be more accurate, very early in the morning), before I sleep.

 

Though I swear to you, the biggest "thorn" in my reading are the comics-related books and magazines, which take way too much time. But I love them!

 

Keep in mind that I don't have a wife and/or kid(s), which means my spare time is actually mine!

[Ze-man]

Well seeing that my collection is smallish it might not be astounding that I have read almost all of my books. Especially the horror related ones.

 

Then again many of the books I bought for the "cover only" get stared at as much if not more then many comics I have read.

 

 

 

[innocuous]

I've read them all, except for one, which is in a slab, for now. (But, I've read it in TPB.)

 

It's easy for me to have read all my comics, there are less than 1,000 in the house. However, I am behind on my trades.