How often do you ‘use’ your collection. 3 3

[The lips]

I go through mine daily. Rearranging, pulling out issues to read myself, read to the kids etc. 
 

Do some have theirs locked away for investment ? Do you maybe get out weekly ? 
 

curious to see how much interaction people have 

[ADAMANTIUM]

I have pics of all my slabs in the cgc registry....

so I take a look at the pics and update descriptions etc.

it's fun to search for books, but my comic room is mostly windows so taking them out is seldom  

[D84]

I try to go through my golden age once a week, and maybe read one or two.

Most silver and beyond, I read once and rarely look at them again.

[Namtak]

I look mostly on the slab one as often as i want.raw comics i read once to twice at most,read tpb more often.nothing beat the smell of an well aged comics my 

[Qalyar]

The stuff that's not destined for my permanent personal collection gets "used" exactly as often as I sell a piece out of it, or add a piece to it. I have no emotional attachment to it, so I don't revisit that stuff except transactionally. That's what it's here for. Until it's sold, and then it's somewhere else.

On the other hand, I rearrange my slabbed personal collection as I get new books or decide I have a better place to store them or arrange them or just want to remind myself what I own. I probably have at least some interaction with my PC weekly, at the least. More if you count looking over at the shelves and being mostly happy with how some of the projects are progressing. As time permits, I fiddle around with descriptions in the Registry. Which reminds me that I need to spend a day or two getting more images loaded. That'll be a good excuse to look at some books! I own quite a bit that's not in my Registry, also, because I tend to only Registry up a set when I'm getting fairly close to completion. Low percentages bother me, okay? It's a big part of why I don't collect any of the main title runs.

For nearly everything in my slabbed collection, I also own either a set of reader copies or a TPB, and those get quite a bit of love; I probably read through the bulk of the collection once or twice a year. The same goes for the stuff I own only in collected form. Generally speaking, I'm not interested in "collecting" TPBs; those are for reading, and so I read them.

Ironically, for everyone who talks about slabbed books being "entombed", the non-slabbed part of my PC gets much less love. Those books are checked off a cheklist, then bagged, boarded, and boxed, and... that's pretty much their existence. Sorry, little comics, I really do still care about you...

Otherwise... I bump my WTB thread with misguided, futile optimism every couple of weeks or so. Does that count?

[thehumantorch]

I flip through my collection every day.  It's soothing

[kav]

Once in a while i go thru bursts where I pull out books to read but otherwise they just sit in the closet and every once in a while a $5 book becomes a $500 book.

[lordbyroncomics]

I look through it often and it's very enjoyable for me. As I have no intention of flipping any books or selling them, at least not for another twenty years, it's very gratifying to look at the collection and remember how much the medium and the history of comics means to me. I basically look at my collection uploaded at covrprice or my folder with scans of all the covers and it does make me pleased to be collecting. But now and then, I flip through the actual comics.

[Robot Man]

I pull out random boxes when I get the urge. I often reread or just thumb through them and maybe take a sniff. I pulled out a couple boxes of Timelys the other day. Damn they are cool. 

I almost never look at slabs. I find I spend more time considering the numbers in the upper left corners than the books themselves. 

I have a large pile of low grade unbagged ECs sitting on a shelf in the closet. I have probably read them more than any other comics. 

[JazzMan]

Since my office is my comic room, I stroll over to the spinner and enjoy a comic just like when I was a kid with the exception of the cranky clerk yelling at me for reading the comics.  My Spidey slabs are in boxes by my desk so it's great during conference calls.

[comicginger1789]

I have a display wall I change up often. 
 

Plus I’m in the process of reading and cataloguing stuff so I would say every other day at least I’m “playing” with my books. It’s a great enjoyment of mine. Even bigger key books I’ll just look at from time to time, maybe snap a pic to share with ya all:)

[chrisco37]

When I had 10+ long boxes & 8 short boxes I hardly ever looked at them unless I was planning on selling them.  I sold the majority of them earlier this year.  I know have 65 books total and I look at them a lot more.  They are now more of a fun hobby than an albatross of stuff.

[Jeffro.]

I spread them out on the floor and then roll around on them

[Timeless icons]

4 hours ago, The lips said:

I go through mine daily. Rearranging, pulling out issues to read myself, read to the kids etc. 
 

Do some have theirs locked away for investment ? Do you maybe get out weekly ? 
 

curious to see how much interaction people have 

Wow... That's something I never hear. Reading comics to the kids. That's awesome.  

I like going through them from time to time. I tend to use myslabbedcomics site to view my graded stuff but I'll go through the raw collection every month or so. 

[catman76]

The only point in having comics is to 'use' them. I read a couple a day usually, sometimes a specific issue, title, character, artist I am in the mood for, but usually I like to just randomly pull one out and look at it. I 'use' all my records too. I put a record on almost every night and read a couple comics, except last night I read a Buck Rogers big little book and then a 70s issue of Beep Beep the Roadrunner.

[The lips]

15 minutes ago, catman76 said:

The only point in having comics is to 'use' them. I read a couple a day usually, sometimes a specific issue, title, character, artist I am in the mood for, but usually I like to just randomly pull one out and look at it. I 'use' all my records too. I put a record on almost every night and read a couple comics, except last night I read a Buck Rogers big little book and then a 70s issue of Beep Beep the Roadrunner.

That’s pretty much me, record on and comics out. Bliss. 

[The lips]

54 minutes ago, Timeless icons said:

Wow... That's something I never hear. Reading comics to the kids. That's awesome.  

I like going through them from time to time. I tend to use myslabbedcomics site to view my graded stuff but I'll go through the raw collection every month or so. 

Thanks. Reading them to my 5 year old boy is one of my life’s great pleasures. 
he loves the green goblin and venom. 
I read him ASM 300 recently though naturally I wouldn’t let his hands anywhere near it !!

ive give him a bunch of spectacular Spider-Man so he now has his own little collection and he loves them 

[Timeless icons]

54 minutes ago, The lips said:

Thanks. Reading them to my 5 year old boy is one of my life’s great pleasures. 
he loves the green goblin and venom. 
I read him ASM 300 recently though naturally I wouldn’t let his hands anywhere near it !!

ive give him a bunch of spectacular Spider-Man so he now has his own little collection and he loves them 

Start the next generation off early! 

[ADAMANTIUM]

Well I read my doubles, most recently ASM 137....

But I maybe misunderstood as I think of my collection as the slabs and the registry cause those are my current goals

But I have readers that I can mosey up to when I'm feeling nostalgia but when the term "collection" was use I thought of my slabs, mostly of books that I've read.....already 

I don't often plan to read a comic, it just kind if inevitably happens, especially when I'm done buying and or Brokish I break out the pastime 

 

Edited May 28, 2021 by ADAMANTIUM

[MGsimba77]

Whenever I handle a raw book to flip through I'm taken aback with how small and fragile a comic book is. I'm so jaded from the slabs it's easy to loose track. You look at some bronze x-men and they almost feel like a pamphlet. For whatever reason early bronze X books are a little smaller than other Marvels.