One last look before moving it all across the country.
Also, I’m old. So taking pictures to help me remember where all the things fit 🤣
A lot has changed since last posting my manga collection almost 2 years ago. I took my office desk out and added 3 more bookshelves. I also hit 2000 volumes and was not happy with it. Not having any attachment to almost every 3rd series on my shelf was a source of discontentment. It took 2-3 months of pep talking myself, but ultimately, decided to curate. I cut deep and dipped below 1500. I’ve sold over 700 volumes since last May, with just under 100 more listed to part ways with. I’ve hit 2000 again and am now very much more wildly obsessed with my collection!
My current read percentage is ~66%. So a 2:1 read vs unread ratio. That percentage took a double dip hit between the selling off 1/3 of my collection over the last year and using those funds to restock it with new series during Crunchyroll’s warehouse sales and holiday sales. Else it would be in the 90s%. Another 10% I’ve watched as anime, so I know I will love revisiting in manga form (TAMB, Frieren, FT, SDS, etc etc). Would love to get back into the 80% by end of the year! 🤞🏻 Just in time for holiday sales 🪦
Organization is all over the place. My first 2 shelves are nostalgic escapes; series a younger me loved. Not necessarily my favorites anymore, but my favorite shelves to stop and stare at. My inner kid is happy 🥹 The last 2.5 shelves are the gays 🏳️🌈 Everything else in the middle is mostly-ish-ness-kinda in alphabetical order while not trying to break series onto multiple shelves. Tetris 😵💫 Maybe I’ll get spicy and try to split out by size and publisher in the new place… TBD.
There are a couple upside volumes. Those are series I’ve started and have had new releases trickle in for. It’s the only way I can remember what’s what. More old man problems 🤪
Reading at least an hour before bed was a Jan 2023 Resolution my husband and I started together. Which lead to a big book boom 🤣 His historical / political reads downstairs. My manga room. My office with fantasy / sci fi. A kitchen full of cookbooks we need to be wayyyy more adventurous with in recipe experimentations. It has slowly been turning our home into an entire library of a home with books in nearly every room. Of which, we both are wildly obsessed with. But my manga room is still my favorite🤘🏻
TLDR : I’m moving. Sold over 700. Hit 2000 manga volumes, again. ~66% read.