Single-Issue Comics Organization

[laceblade]

Yesterday, while perusing the comics on sale at the shop in the town my parents live in, it became apparent to me that I really, really need a way to keep track of the comics I already own.

For manga, I just keep a list that's like a Word document in Evernote, so I can edit it on my laptop and easily view it on my phone.
I also do this with the Animorphs books for which I'm keeping an eye out.

For comics, though, because they're cheaper and $1 bins exist, I have a lot of random issues from things I just wanted to try. It's easy to keep track of the series on my pull-list because the dude in the comics shop takes care of those, but for all the random extras: what up?

Is there an app of some kind that people use to document the comics they own/wish to own? Or do you just use a system similar to Evernote? Spreadsheets or Word docs?



(For the record, I did pick up the issues I'm missing from the second run of Demo (with possibly one duplicate?!), the first issue of the new Brian Wood series called Mara, & the first issue from Batwoman: Elegy.)

Comments

[wehappyfew]

I'm downloading an app called iBookshelf which might work for you. There's a lite version and a paid version. idk if it would catalog comics, though.

[coffeeandink]

I just started tracking them in an Evernote document. I'd tracked some of it in Goodreads, but whether single issues end up there tends to be haphazard, and I didn't feel like adding them all myself.

[heyfoureyes]

do you want it to be quickly searchable? is it to make sure you don't buy double copies?

[laceblade]

Relatively quickly, yeah - enough that I could figure it out in a bookstore while I'm browsing.
Something that takes bar codes would be really great, but maybe not ideal.

Yeah, the goal is to not buy double-copies.
I can usually keep track when I buy sequentially but sometimes it's like, "Holy shit, they're selling Sailor Moon single-issues for $.50 and I'd better buy whatever they've got!" and then next time I have no memory of what I bought unless the cover art jogs memories.

[heyfoureyes]

do you have a smartphone?

If you have one, the Goodreads app allows for barcode scan entry of titles. I wonder if it could be searched quickly like that. . .

[bibliofile]

barcodes on comics aren't the same as barcodes on other things, AIUI: duplicate barcodes abound. (Cataloguing my flatmate's comics was an ongoing thought a couple of years ago.) Alas.

[laceblade]

I do have a smartphone, & I do have Goodreads. Unfortunately, as coffeeandink mentions above, the addition of single issue comics into the Goodreads database is pretty haphazard and I'm uninterested in adding the ones I want myself.

[liseuse]

I mostly keep a list in the back of my diary, but I am trying to be restrained about buying single issues of series I'm not reading. My local comic bookshop is not making this easy though, with their 50p boxes.