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Do you purchase your manga?

For comfort purposes most of the time I read my manga online! But sometimes something strikes me and I order physical copies of my favorite manga series╰(*´︶`*)╯Seeing them displayed on my bookshelf just brings me a lot of excitement and happiness TT
 
I purchase my manga only for collection purposes! So if it's a manga I've read and I rly love, and I know I will want to read again and again.
 
I used to buy all my manga, but I've shifted more to reading everything online. I like the physical collection, but it can get really expensive when a single volume is like, 15$ and there's 10+ volumes in a series.
 
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YummyYum said:
I used to buy all my manga, but I've shifted more to reading everything online. I like the physical collection, but it can get really expensive when a single volume is like, 15$ and there's 10+ volumes in a series.
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the combination of the paper shortage during covid on top of a ton of new ppl entering the hobby really put a damper on things for collecting 😓 both new and secondhand prices skyrocketed.

i have a meager collection of like 100 volumes and still have some series id like to finish off that i already have stuff for, but its just too expensive now...at least for shonen the SJ app is convenient and affordable for digital
 
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Honestly, I usually read my manga and everything online. I don't exactly have the money to purchase a ton of manga, and the tools online present to read and track manga series makes it much easier to get into that ecosystem.
 
Most of the time i read mangas online since it's hard to get physical mangas here in my country.
But, when i went to bookstores and see limited mangas, i cant help to buy it lol
But i will only buy those that are oneshots, its better for me...
because i am really a massive... massive hoarder (for games... etc)
Currently i have Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look back and Goodbye Eri physical manga!
 
If I really liked the series then I'll buy some volumes, but most of the times I just read it online.
 
i don't have enough space in my room for physical copies so i read digitally only. i have one manga by Kanako Inuki i bought it because it was a good price and she didn't seem to have many physical copies out there
 
I used to read only scanlations, then moved to manga reading apps from the publishers to read RAWs, but over time I've grown frustrated with online stuff (esp manga publisher apps that I find can be a headache to use at times), and I prefer buying and collecting physical versions of manga I really love and am invested in.

I still read stuff online for budget reasons (though I'll seek the RAWs before any scanlation nowadays), but I absolutely prefer physical versions over digital versions nowadays. Importing manga from Japan is way too expensive on my end, but I'm sorta lucky in that 80% of the series I'm interested in collecting physically have been licensed in my country, so they're a bit more accessible in general.

If I'm intrigued by something I know was licensed in my country and don't feel like reading RAWs, my general process now is to look through my local library's website if they have it and borrow physical copies, or I try to see if my local library's manga-reading partner lets me access an online copy for free.
 
Mostly I read online, only purchase manga that interesting for me and I want in my collection and what released in my country.
 
Yup, and on digital. Physical copies are limited to the ones that has a short serialisation (fewer volumes) so it's easier to keep.
 
I really used to, especially when I was younger, always at the bookstore browsing the manga aisle. Online has been.. more convenient.. and there are waaay bigger selections to read than what's seen at a bookstore. At least where I live.
 
About 10 years ago, I used to buy so many manga volumes that my bookshelf was overflowing
These days, I don't really buy physical books anymore. Now I mostly read and buy manga through apps instead
 
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