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New Poll - Obtained Physical Manga
This week's poll was suggested by RocketDive. Amazingly we've never had this question before. For myself, I only own < 5 volumes of manga, and all of them were purchased during Anime Expo in bulk.

You can submit poll ideas here (and try to keep them manga/anime-related)
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results:
Question: What is Anime / Manga to you?
Choices:
A new endeavor - votes: 112 (1.2%)
An ongoing hobby - votes: 6124 (64.2%)
A lifestyle - votes: 2074 (21.7%)
A former or declining pastime - votes: 1229 (12.9%)
There were 9539 total votes.
The poll ended: August 22nd 2015

Well, a lot of you guys still keep up with stuff, unlike me...
Posted by lambchopsil on 
August 22nd 12:33am
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» residentgrigo on August 22nd, 2015, 1:14am

One would need to be in pretty deep to take part in a poll by a manga tracking website so the low number of newbies makes sense.

I used to buy them from a local smaller retailer who ordered them based on the ISBN but i switched to the first 2 online options in the last decade and i voted option No.1. I also resell my stuff on Ebay so the street goes both ways.

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» Nirhtuc on August 22nd, 2015, 1:40am

I got most of my manga from bookdepository.com and a few from eBay.

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» deadphoenix on August 22nd, 2015, 2:06am

I've got most of my manga from Archonia, the cheapest in Europe. I also bought some bara manga at bol.com. Some of the older manga comes from a bookmarket were they were only a €1.95 per piece. I also bought some manga at conventions, however lately I'm not doing it anymore because at conventions the manga are to expensive.

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» Natsuki@ on August 22nd, 2015, 9:17am

Lol I've probably been to the same bookmarkets. Of all the manga that I own I've mostly bought the manga at some bookmarket for 1,95 euro and some in specialty stores but that varies between 9,95~18 euro's.

I might start buying online if it is cheaper but then again I do not buy that much manga anymore and the price is quite high with my current funds.

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» MinatoAce on August 22nd, 2015, 3:52am

I mostly get them from Online retailers (Amazon, etc) and some At conventions too, but, only if the contents of my taste available...^^

lambchopsil - Don't worry bro. It might become same for me when I reach your age. Study, Work, RL Problems...so, much things for one to handle. Plus, taste changes with time anyway ~!

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» Azula on August 22nd, 2015, 5:13am

I used to mainly steal tons of manga volumes from 6 different PUBLIC Libraries.
And I always managed to get away with it.

But now, I taught myself Japanese and I just find the un-translated scans online and just read them.
It's a win-win for me.

So, no - I never bought, but I've stolen and I still own.

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» crazyboutcute on August 25th, 2015, 12:16am

Don't mean to take the moral high ground here, but as a librarian, I feel have to say something. And that something is this: Please, please, please, please, please don't steal from libraries! Especially ones that are publicly funded! We generally don't have huge budgets and lose literally thousands of dollars each year due to patron theft. (And I've seen the numbers -- they are far from pretty.) And while it may seem like you "always managed to get away with it," depending on when you committed your acts of theft (i.e. five years ago as opposed to fifty), you may find you no longer have access to those public libraries, or any library affiliated with them, or libraries unaffiliated with them but within the same geographic location. It may seem easy to walk out with books and never return them, but we DO keep track of thieving patrons(if you actually checked the books out), and until they pay their dues or return the stolen materials, their access to libraries all over the state is completely cut off. No library wants to lend materials to a thief, after all. (We've even had a police detective come in before, criminally investigating one such patron.)

Alright, I'm done being a librarian.

In response to the actual poll, I don't buy much manga anymore, but when I was younger, I mostly bought mine from large retailers. Ever since Borders went under, I've been buying less altogether and very rarely from actual stores. (By which I mean, I don't really impulse buy anymore.) These days, if there's a manga I want, I usually get it somewhere online, wherever I can find it cheapest.

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» Azula on August 25th, 2015, 6:06pm

I never check books out. I'd be dumb if I did. That would be like announcing to the library that you have their stuff.

And you may say that libraries have been succumbed to stolen properties. But I am positively sure that the scales of stolen manga/comics are easily the smallest occurrences (at least during the times I stole them) due to them not being much seen in libraries.

I don't know too much about financial loses in other countries, states, or cities - but I do know that the libraries I've stolen from have been given/granted donations of over 350 millions of dollars from a group of senators, politicians, higher-class citizens, and even some local celebrities who happened to be raised near those parts or regions.

Those libraries I've stolen from seem like those unbelievable retro-styled England/Roman designed mansions with no end of ever stop growing. But just knowing that a librarian is a fellow mangaupdates comrade does ignite regret/guilt into me - for stealing from these libraries.

I will repent for my actions somehow.

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» Trimutius on August 22nd, 2015, 5:55am

Local Major bookstore for me... I did order a few from Amazon, but most of the major titles are sold in Indigo, which is the biggest book retailer in Canada...

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» CuthienSilmeriel on August 22nd, 2015, 6:28am

The few English volumes I own I got from Amazon mostly, a couple from major bookstores.. I have far more Japanese manga simply because it's so cheap here and is a good way to study without actually studying. Those I mostly got from second hand shops for dirt cheap, around ¥100 which is how I've somehow ended up with entire bookshelves full despite having no space at all for them, hahaha.

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» Gradonil_Ral on August 22nd, 2015, 7:00am

I don't own much physical manga, but that ones I do own were all bought in different places - basically all the options above "other". Though, I guess I could include "other" too - I did get a volume or two as prizes in some website contests...

But if we're talking about original, untranslated stuff (for raws), then it's all from online retailers or marketplaces.

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» drunkguy on August 22nd, 2015, 4:01pm

I tend to get raws from Bookoff. I get translated manga from local comic stores.

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» eccentrrick on August 22nd, 2015, 11:44pm

Majority of my collection is from online stores that sell it in bulk for a discount. Second would be from book stores. Lastly, I have a small collection that I got from the English Publisher's website because I wanted the goodies that came with the order (posters, postcards, nice plastic bags, coupons.)

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» Bafflement on August 23rd, 2015, 3:28am

I only own a few manga. Some I ordered online, another I picked up while visiting Japan.

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» Shibiusa on August 23rd, 2015, 4:26am

I only have like... Two volumes? And I won them in contests. I can't buy manga in my country, since it's too expensive. I would rather buy a book than pay the same amount for a manga volume =/

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» Lulubella on August 24th, 2015, 4:12pm

I buy from a local hobby store for the most part, but I will buy things they don't have from Barnes & Noble or other chain retailers if I get the chance to.

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» AquarianDemocrat on August 24th, 2015, 5:40pm

I mostly buy used manga online I can get for cheap.

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» calstine on August 24th, 2015, 11:51pm

I don't buy used; the only used books I've read are ones I borrowed from the library. There are no manga in our libraries, and barely any in our stores, so what few physical manga I have (some volumes of Get Backers, some Samurai Deeper Kyo, and the first 2 vol.s of Zombie Loan, to be precise) I bought from Amazon.com. And it was so expensive I vowed to never do it again.

Now that I come to think of it, I have bought 1 volume from a local bookstore: it was the first part of one of the cases from the Kindaichi Case Files series, the second part for which I never found, either locally or online.

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» licorice on August 26th, 2015, 5:53am

Most of my current collection comes from Kinokuniya. Anything I can't order through them I get from Amazon Japan or a friend that lives in Japan (especially if it's secondhand). My English manga used to come from Borders/Barnes Noble/Waldens (the older shoujo and shounen stuff from Viz and Tokyopop anyway).

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» Chainless on August 27th, 2015, 3:44am

At first I bought my manga from a small local store that was specialized in stuff like manga and figures and fantasy games. Then when the publishers starte translating manga to my language I started to buy those from normal stores and supermarkets. All this was before anyone used internet to buy ANYTHING. But after manga became available online (like BookDepository) I've bought all my manga from online retailers.

Atm it's about 50% local small retailer / 20% normal supermarket's magazine stand / 30% online retailer

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» mysstris on August 27th, 2015, 2:19pm

Ebay>Rightstuf>Amazon.

Amazon is my go to for buying novels so I don't usually buy mangas there

I obtained probably 80% from ebay because most are OOP or amazingly low and great deals

I regularly check Rightstuf for sales

I used to use the library but that was before I went to college when I could keep a book way past the due date and not have to pay a fine for it (minors) but now that I'm in college, I don't go to the library since most can also be found online scanlated.

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