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Thought digital comics would kill my love of the floppy, turns out I was dead wrong
I swore off single issues about 3 years ago. Went full trade paperback and digital only. Felt smart. My shelf looked clean. Then last October I walked into a shop in Portland and the guy behind the counter handed me a copy of a small press book I had never heard of. It was a floppy. Staples and all. I read it on the bus home and something clicked. The letters page at the back had a real address. I wrote in. They printed my letter 2 issues later. That never happens with a digital copy. Now I am back to pulling about 8 titles a month and my shelf is a mess again. Curious if anyone else went digital only and then came back to singles.
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jakewhite10d ago
The letters page thing is cool and all but you can email creators too and honestly they reply more than you'd think. Floppies are a mess of plastic bags and boards and storage boxes that eat up your room while digital stays on a device you already own. Sounds like you just miss the ritual of walking into a shop, which is fine, but don't kid yourself that it's about the paper.
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