What do you do with manga after you download it?

18 years ago
Posts: 116
what i do is download > read > delete if I am buying the retail version, if not gather them together to burn at a later date.

18 years ago
Posts: 272
1) I keep them on my pc untill I read them.
2) I read them
3) Then I classify (complete or ongoing).
4) Once I've gathered a big enough bunch of completes I burn them to a dvd and delete them from my pc.
(I don't burn ongoings because I'd like all the manga to have 1 dvd for themselves, not that if I want to reread naruto I have to go and find 5 different DVD's or something ^-^)
I have plenty of space so i just leave them on my pc after I've read them. Sometimes i just get the urge "aww man I've gotta go back and check out that pose again." I'm really bad at getting rid of stuff, what if i need it in the future for some reason? ^^
I used to religiously label each chapter/volume perfectly (just getting rid of the rubbish in the name and putting 01, 02, etc.), but naruto broke my habit.

18 years ago
Posts: 24
I keep them on the PC a while, reread them a few times. Then I burn them to CD - all carefully labeled and documented of course, because I'm a total organisation freak. It takes a hellishly long time to download with my Internet connection, so it's almost physically painful to me to delete anything 🤢
18 years ago
Posts: 14
I keep them. But if Im out of space. I delete. With $1 you can buy 4 blank DVD disc in here. But theres quatity are bad. I don't burn any dvd.
18 years ago
Posts: 475
Move to complete/ongoing manga folder. Add the latest volume/chapter number onto the folder name, increment chapter/volume on my list. Lather rinse, repeat, and read what suits my mood :-) I don't delete my manga, unless i either find a better quality out there. It takes far too long to organise/and download from IRC/web (some scans are years old and are hard to get again) for me to delete them. I'm going to avoid the more popular manga till i know better versions come out (ie naruto, one piece, negima, suzuka, etc...) - When you keep track of as many ongoing manga as i do, it's a pain checking which group you want to get them from especially if there are multiple groups for a series.
I have a folder in My Pictures called My Manga. It currently contains over 140 series folders in it, and is around 45 GB. I have them in alphabetical order (Duh, windows does that itself), and by their Japanese titles (If its different from the American).
In each file, I have them broken down by volume number, then in those, by chapter number.
It tends to be a pain for me to get a RAR file, and it has every chapter file in one file, because then I have to refile them by chapter, myself.
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18 years ago
Posts: 475
Quote from Kaioh
It tends to be a pain for me to get a RAR file, and it has every chapter file in one file, because then I have to refile them by chapter, myself.
yep i find this annoying too. Moreso if the chapter isn't even stated in the filename.
18 years ago
Posts: 65
If i'm nont currently interested in the series, it stays in my download folder.
If i'm interested in it (to read now or at a later time), i
- extract them to a "read" folder
- move the zip into a "sort" folder
- sometime during the month i'll sort out a few series in the "sort folder" into their own specific folder in my "manga" - "incomplete" or "complete" directory.
Usually those series which i have accumulated a significant number of chapters or volumes of are sorted first.
18 years ago
Posts: 18
320GB HDD for Manga sorted like this:
Complete
Incomplete
Ongoing
Unsorted/Downloading
4X 500Gb HDD for Anime, each HDD with one of the folders above.
I only delete Manga or Anime when I absolutely hate them or when I find a better version.

18 years ago
Posts: 260
I usualy burn it to dsk and print a nice color label for the series that I really love. If it's YAOI it goes into a folder for fserv (that I still can't seem to route around...), but if it's not so great, or I just don't think I'm gonna read it again, I delete it. It's a new laptop, ya know. Need to keep some space for video encoding of my anime.

18 years ago
Posts: 19
I sort my manga in a 200Gb HD, put them in their folder alphabetically, i.e Bleach in B folder, Shaman King in S folder. Burn the complete series when they fit in a DVD and mark them as [burned] in the HD. Basically, I don't delete any of my manga, unless I need some space.
18 years ago
Posts: 210
download, extract, read, delete RAR/ZIP, and put in their respected folders according to the series. once the folder is around 500mb - 1Gb, i burn it.

18 years ago
Posts: 29
i read it, it goes to my "My Documents" folder and never to be read again.......
18 years ago
Posts: 3
I usually download, read, and but t on a disc or later reference or giv it 2 my friends 2 read