I've been a comic book fan for many years. I read comics as a kid growing up, but it wasn't until the summer of 1977 that I became immersed in the collecting of comics. I started with Spider-Man [1], but quickly expanded my interest to include many different characters, publishers, artists, writer and genres.
After many years of collecting, I found myself with a lot of comics. A lot. When a collection reaches a particular size, as mine had, it becomes a beast to manage. The volume and unbelievable weight of that many comics quickly looses its appeal. It was at this point that I discovered something about my comic book collecting.
I like to read comic books, not store them.
As I pondered my thoughts on this subject, I discovered a collection of 500 issues of the Amazing Spider-Man in electronic format on one DVD from the company GIT Corp [2]. Every page of every issue scanned into PDF documents. All this for just $30. I loaded the DVD into my computer and enjoyed the complete and un-modified scans of each comic book. Excited about the content, format and price, I looked online to see what else GIT Corp offered. To my surprise I found more; X-Men, Avengers, Captain America, Iron Man and more.
Each title collecting 500+ issues each in the same perfect format at the same perfect price. I bought them all. I had consolidated thousands of comics books with the equivalent of 25 boxes of comics to the size of load of bread. My mind exploded with the thought of being able to convert my own personal collection into a digital format.
It was at this point that I discovered something yet again about my comic book collecting. I liked comic books in a scanned digital format.
I was a fan again, for the very first time.
References:
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man
[2] - http://www.gitcorp.com/
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