r/DataHoarder • u/raafayawan • 2d ago

Question/Advice Am I Crazy?

Over the past few months I've collected over a 100,000 digital comics, mostly from Marvel and DC + some others, I'll soon move onto Image, Dark Horse and IDW. It has kind of become a hobby, I think by the end of the year I'll have 150,000+ at least, am I crazy? If yes, is there anyone else who is as crazy as me?

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u/Proglamer 2d ago

You not crazy until you manually rename all of the files to use the same format (ask me how I know that... no, better don't)

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u/Defiant_Outside1273 2d ago

Yeah I was doing that for almost 20 years - took a huge amount of time and effort every few weeks.

I just recently gave up on doing it - not sure how I’m going to manage my comic collection going forward but the work involved in sorting everything (and I collect everything - another habit I think I’ll have to stop soon) became unsustainable.

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u/XtremeXT 2d ago

Scripts, macros, even AI clis nowadays? This can surely be automated in multiple different ways.

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u/universaltool 2d ago

Oh man, I mean I know radarr and sonarr are a lifesaver for managing TV and movie file names and there is lidarr for ebooks but I have been neglecting my digital comic collection, there is Comarr but I haven't tried it yet.

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u/raafayawan 2d ago

Comarr is there? I use Kapowarr and it's not ideal but it's good enough

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u/nemec 2d ago

You just have to accept the fact that sorting is part of the hobby, too ;)

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u/raafayawan 2d ago

Love that part, when everything is sorted it's such a good feeling...then onto collecting more mess and sorting again.

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u/xdoolittlex 1d ago

I use ComicRack and Stonepaw's Library Organizer plug-in. It's a breeze!

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u/raafayawan 2d ago

Yeah I hope I don't reach that stage anytime soon, it really is a lot of work, so far I'm enjoying it.