I have 46 books faved. I've only read & am caught up on 32 of those books. Where the heck am I supposed to come up with the time to get caught up?
I refuse to start a book in the middle. No way. Won't do it.
Of all the books I'm not caught up on, Gnoph is the one with which I'm most eager to get current. I'm less than halfway current on it, but it's archive is bloody massive.
How 'bout you? How big's your favorites list? Of that list, how many are you actually caught up on? Of the ones you are behind on reading, which is the one you're most eager to be current on?
I am caught up on 26 of them. I can't ever seem to find time to read them either. And whenever I do read archives it makes me want to work on my own comic so I stop and get working.
There are a few I have yet to start reading at all, I just don't want to lose them.
I have over 100 comics faved (not that I can delete them if I wanted to), and it's tough to play catch up on the archives. Sometimes I just have to comment on the current page, without always understanding the overall story - which is sad.
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I have 43 favorites, I'm current on all. Typically I'll read through most of a comic's archive before I fave it, this makes it easy to keep current. Unfortunately most of my favorites don't update very often so there's some days where I only have 3 or 4 comics to read!
21 comics faved (not counting the ones on SJ). I'm current on 5 of them, and I (nearly) catch every update on 4 of those.
I know, I'm dead lazy. S'why I don't get peeved when a friend tells me one day she'll read my comics. I didn't read 1 of her 2 comics for months, even after I faved the other 1.
I think there's just something about webcomics that makes me not burn thru them like I do with the graphic novels in my possession. Same problem as that aforementioned friend. Paper is just more friendly...
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I have 29 faved, but several seem dead and their creators are awol. I think there are 3 or 4 I'm not current on but I catch the current updates. (I think of it like starting watching a TV series in the middle...)
When I do feel moved to read archives, it usually takes me only a day or two for moderate sized comics (<50 pages). Once I get into something, I really have to sit down and dedicate myself to it. I can't do the read a few pages a day thing to catch up. I have to keep reading all in one sitting or until my vision goes blurry.
patrickdevine Said: Typically I'll read through most of a comic's archive before I fave it, this makes it easy to keep current.
I couldn't do that! The "bookmark" feature is essential to me when I'm reading through archives. I'd be lost without it! Sometimes I fave a comic just to use the bookmark feature -- and then unfave it if I lose interest or am not into it. (Although if I make it through or well into the archives, it isn't likely I'll drop it.)
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27 faved and until today, caught up on all of them. Some of my faves no longer update though, I still go back and read them. Like: Alien Circus.
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I, currently, have 61 in my favorite list and I find it really difficult to have the time to read the ones I reall love like 20 Galaxies, Pinky TA, Story Of A Robot, Give Me The Sky, etc...
If that's my problem here, there are comics outside Drunkduck that I love that I can't have the time to read them.
I just love webcomics but I'm finding difficulty in reading the ones that I love. Yet, every friggin' day, I find like 39238429 great looking comics on both DD and Onlinecomics.net
Um... I have quite a bit huge list of comics in my faves and I keep up with them quite regularly. Work allows me the luxury to read comics during the day so only time I miss a day is on the weekend. And I also search for new ones all the time. It hasn't become a struggle for me. I struggle more with getting time to actually work on my comic.
I fav a lot of comics, then check up on each of after about 3 months or so. Story comics are better read in chunks like that. Strips I just read em as they come and often don't even dig into the archives unless I'm really impressed.
I've got so many stories faved that I really don't know what to do with myself. I've got 31 comics faved here on DD, and then a further 29 bookmarked. I am able to keep up with them quite well, because I'm currently unemployed with nothing much better to do, but I tend to leave some comics for a while and go back to them later. Story comics, with longer between updates, tend to read better when read one chapter at the time rather than all chapters at once and then a page once a week (or whatever the update schedule happens to be).
I believe that 60 comics is more or less my limit at the moment.
I favorite any comics that look interesting so I can go back to read the archives. Every time I'm sitting at the computer I'm working though, so I still have quite a ways to go on most of them. At the same time, I absolutely refuse to recommend a comic until I've read the whole thing, so I have a bunch that I want to recommend but haven't yet because of that.
I used to read a lot more comics off of DD but now I'm down to three. Most of the others are only updating sporadically anyways.
I'm in the same boat as TheMidge...I have well over 100 active comics fav'd and work is usually very very very slow so I spend most of the time checking comics and drawing/inking/coloring my own comics.
Wish I were on that boat! I'm on dial-up at work, so can't use it much AND it takes eons for a single page to load. So basically I don't read comics at work. And when I get home, I'm usually so sick on staring at the monitor and unable to focus for more than 3 seconds that reading anything is too much of an effort. So, while I have about 50-60 faved, I'm still yet to read half of them - and I keep forgetting to while I'm trying to keep up to date with a bunch of weeklies and dailies I've been following from the start.
Sometimes I don't even fave a comic that looks amazing because I know I won't have the time to check the archives, anyway...