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Libraries are a good source for manga for the poor. Most of them are connected to the rest statewide, so trading between libraries is also possible. 😀

The local library doesn't have any. D: I'll have to donate some of mine the next time I decide to trim down my collection.

Hmm, are you sure they wouldn't just end up selling the books instead of putting it into their collection? I'm just saying in case you donate it and then you're disappointed with what they do with it.

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I haven't bought any manga yet (unless you count my Megatokyo books), but I've considered it. The main thing is that I haven't encountered any series' that I absolutely love and are completely translated and released by a US publisher yet. I have bought the US releases of some of my favorite anime series' though (Stellvia, Crest of the Stars + sequels, Juuni Kokki).

One thing I'm strongly considering getting are the Juuni Kokki novels, once they're released (I think from Tokyopop?). Not strictly manga, but the anime is my all-time favorite, and it doesn't cover everything in the novels! I just wish they'd start the releases with the novels that cover stories not told or finished in the anime. Like the search for Taiki.

I managed to get both volumes of Onegai Teacher for $3 at Comic Con xD. Aside from that, manga is too expensive T_T

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Which now that I think about it is pretty sad for a 19 year old to have

Hey, I'm almost 21, what does that make me? D;

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Hmm, are you sure they wouldn't just end up selling the books instead of putting it into their collection?

Pretty sure, it's rather small (services a town pop. 240, lol) and my mom used to work there, so unless things have uberly changed it would still be... mostly the same. xD They generally only sell books that are never checked out (i.e. Harlequin romance).

Mmm, novels. Are light novels counted with the manga, then? =o

I tend to buy whatever I like that's licensed...

Rebirth(manwha) - all volumes except 19(which I'll buy soon)
AI Yori Aoshi - (except 1-3 and 13 and 14 which I'll buy soon)
Vagabond assorted
Rave Master assorted
Dears
Candidate for Goddess
lots of others assorted volumes

I don't consider myself a person who buys as much as I should. What I buy pales in comparison to what I've read, but I'm trying to change that.

But alas, I'm trying harder now to NOT read the english version of manga, be it scanlation or licensed. Manga with furigana really helps, especially those where they assume you're a two-year old so they repeat the furigana every time...

I want to start buying manga from amazon japan direct. Especially Ii Hito, seems like a great manga according to a review by Janimes.

My only gripe with buying raw manga is that it's harder to look up kanji. Right now I'll keep jwpce open, a browser with various online dictionaries, ReadIris OCR, and Atlas clipboard translation. Once I get better at using Japanese IME, I think I'll feel more comfortable with buying raws..

wow, but it seems like a whole lot of trouble just to read manga, and those translation things arent that accurate i think

Name: Bikuki
Date Of Birth: xx/xx/19xx
Location: XX
From: The Place That Rhymes With China.

Fooled you, sucker.

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I do buy manga. I currently have a little over 250 volumes. Though I've stopped buying them for a while cause I'm saving up for a laptop. I need about 200 bucks more (it costs about $1,300). So for now I'll stick with scanlations. And if there is a series that I'm interested in and has no scanlations that is licensed I will buy it. I

i'm new to manga but i've bought a lot since i got interested, i'm currently downloading those that i can't find for sale or need to have translators translate it since some are only released in japan and i can't read japanese, btw manga isn't that popular around here where i live, anime is but manga isn't quite as popular.

I bought my first copy an I only have one..so i guess thats a start!

I actually own about 150 volumes of manga ^_^

I was reading manga before watching anime (well, at least consciously knowing that what I was watching was anime), so I don't buy anime, but I buy manga. Eventually I'll buy anime, but not for now ^.^'''

So that's about 150 volumes in...about two years ^o^/ Yay for me!

I can only imagine how many I'll have in ten years O.o

EDIT: Now I have 171 🤣

I just keep buying them! O.o

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Yes I do buy them if the manga is good. I own around 200 volumes.

Yes I do!

Without people buying manga, the artist will go broke and ideas don't come from starvation. So if I really like a manga, I buy it. Because they are worth my money! It's not that much anyways 🙂

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Hmm, are you sure they wouldn't just end up selling the books instead of putting it into their collection?

Pretty sure, it's rather small (services a town pop. 240, lol) and my mom used to work there, so unless things have uberly changed it would still be... mostly the same. xD They generally only sell books that are never checked out (i.e. Harlequin romance).

Mmm, novels. Are light novels counted with the manga, then? =o

Books that are never checked out? Uh, why even bother putting them in the library then? Or even buying them, unless they were donated. But the library I go to had about 15 or 16 branches (it's not a big city like Toronto, which probably has 50+ of them). My library even posted a sign at one of their branches that (if I recall correctly), they will not take general interest magazines, old National Geographics, old Reader's Digests because even accepting the books would cost something to dispose of them if they weren't deemed any use to them. :/

Also, for a whiile the library didn't even want to catalogue manga. They would have it as a regular paperback that couldn't be reserved even if it was a manga like Marmalade Boy (which has 8 volumes). 🙁

(When they started investing for the manga to be a more permanent part for the collection, they would pay for the $8 covering. But since the price has gone down for manga, they don't bother. But the manga can be reserved now.)

But anyhow, I stick with just asking them before you donate them if they would like it or accept it into the library. I'm a bit sorry for sounding like a cynic. ^^;

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Hi,
I think I'm too picky ...
I much prefer a book in hand and like having a collection going (I don't know how many I have - probably not nearly as many as some). I have read series from the library as well, generally ones I wouldn't buy. I prefer not to get a manga series if I can watch it as an anime (unless there are big differences between the two). For downloads I go for completed unlicensed series greater than one volume long.

I own now two volumes 😀 . It's true that the mangas aren't really that well translated but it's still better to have them on paper. Too bad that they just cost 7€ a piece 😀