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Abysslord
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- Posted: March 22, 2019 12:55:44 pm
- I'm wondering if I'm unique with this problem or not. I have 20+ long boxes of comics and some of my titles will spread out across boxes, but some boxes will have more than one title. I don't like to waste space so I may have Box B half full with Spider-man, 1/4th full of Outcast, 1/4th full of whatever.
Now for years I have no idea what's in a particular box. I know the piles on this site were intended to solve that. So you'd have a Pile A which corresponds to your physical box "Pile A". This way you can easily see what's in each box.
However, I also want to be able to quickly see all my issues of a particular group. So, "I want to see all my Hack/Slash comics which may or may not be in the same box".
So there's the problem .... using the Pile method, I can't do that. if I instead name my piles by groups like I'm currently doing, I can't keep track of what box each comic is in. I can't really reuse the Notes column because that's where I keep important notes.
So with no new feature implementation, my plan is:
All my comics in Box A go into a pile called Box A. If there are comics in there I'd like to group by I'm going to put those into a pile called "Box A - Hack/Slash". So I may end up with Piles like:
Box A
Box A - Spider-man
Box A - Hack/Slash
Box B
Box B - Spider-man
Box B - Hack/Slash
In this way, in Excel, I can quickly filter and choose all Box A entries to see everything in a certain physical box, but I can also filter and choose every box with the words 'Hack/Slash" to see all my Hack/Slash regardless of what boxes they happen to be in.
I hate that I have to hack the system like this but I can't think of a better way to achieve what I want.
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brucifer
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- Posted: March 22, 2019 1:32:32 pm
- Abysslord
I have always filed my comic books in alphabetic order. Yes, when you have 50+ long boxes, it sucks, but I can't seem to find a better way. I usually put away newer books twice a year, which takes hours, but I think is worth the while. I rarely lose any books (but I have) when it's in alphabetic order.
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Abysslord
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- Posted: March 22, 2019 1:37:35 pm
brucifer said:
Abysslord
I have always filed my comic books in alphabetic order. Yes, when you have 50+ long boxes, it sucks, but I can't seem to find a better way. I usually put away newer books twice a year, which takes hours, but I think is worth the while. I rarely lose any books (but I have) when it's in alphabetic order.
I see you keep your piles by title so you'd be in the same situation as me, except you can narrow it down since you do it alphabetically. I don't think I would do that because of the problem of new books since I get many new titles every month it seems like.
So as far as this site goes, if you wanted to quickly see what boxes your titles were in you can't. But if you renamed your piles to match your boxes then you lose the 'group by title' feature.
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brucifer
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- Posted: March 22, 2019 1:47:03 pm
- It's a tricky one for sure. I don't buy much newer comic books anymore, so that makes it a bit easier. If you're buying several new books a week, that becomes troublesome eventually. I used to be like that and it drove me crazy. I wonder if anyone has a better idea?
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AmZoMBiE
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Spector
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Spa-fon
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Abysslord
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- Posted: March 23, 2019 9:32:37 am
AmZoMBiE said:
Maybe an easier way to separate your piles would be to group by company or characters and in the notes section (in your 'Collection') write which physical box they come from...
I need the notes section for actual notes though. Like one comic I have is 8.5 but there are 3 numbers written on back. So my grade is lower but in my notes I say '8.5 but 3 numbers written on back' so I know how to explain that grade if anyone asked. Or things like "Unopened bag", "With card but opened", "Subscriber crease" etc. Course I could just start the Notes with the Box too.
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Abysslord
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- Posted: March 23, 2019 9:35:41 am
Spa-fon said:
Over the years I have always grouped boxes and piles by title. Some, like Spider-Man or Batman, have multiple long boxes. Others of shorter runs are combined with other titles, such as Secret Origins & Shazam.
Boxes not mostly full, I used pieces of cardboard folded to hold books in place.
That's what I'm doing now, all titles together and I group things if possible. So my Spider-Man are all by themselves over many boxes but if I needed to know what box is Avenging Spider-man #11, I'd have no idea right now.
I guess for the most part this isn't a big deal because I really only have 1 group that spreads out, which is Spider-man. Since I pretty much read Image comics only now I don't need to group them because their title does that, with the exception of Hack 'n' Slash since it's done so many one-shots through different publishers.
So I'm probably thinking about this just for the sake of a few examples. I just wanted to really make sure I have a process before I go through all my boxes and catalog again.
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- Posted: March 31, 2019 4:21:13 pm
- Maybe I am not understanding, but just do a pile search for the title and it will load across all piles.
For instance my primary ASM series is spread across several boxes, cabinets, etc. But if I want to see the entire collection, I just search for it, click on the title and then can see all issues across all locations, etc.
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