I'd like to step back and organize what I have properly before I acquire any more. My comic collection has recently passed the 1TB mark, and considering the small size of most files, this means there is a lot of shit to untangle. ![]() I've been half-assed trying to keep things roughly grouped by series, but it's starting to get overwhelming. To make matters worse, you have individual issues, TPBs which collect multiple issues, and omnibuses that collect multiple TPBs - and it's not always obvious which items are included in any particular collection. Series are a clusterfuck of reboots, alternate timelines, one-shots, specials, changes of ownership, team-ups, versus specials, and differently-titled story arcs that may or may not be distinct from the series proper, depending on who you ask and what day of the week it is. Sorting by series is difficult because universes are hillbilly-family-tree of inbreeding and cross-pollination. Naming conventions are rough suggestions at best. Neat, simple, proper.īut comic books are a fucking nightmare. ![]() Books get library-standard names, and music is sorted into directories for each artist containing directories for each album. Movies and TV shows have simple naming formats, and the everybody has more or less agreed upon TVDB as the standard for episode numbers, so that's what I use. Just make sure to tag the post with the flair and give a little background info/context.Īll my other media is neatly sorted based on standard conventions. On Fridays we'll allow posts that don't normally fit in the usual data-hoarding theme, including posts that would usually be removed by rule 4: “No memes or 'look at this '”
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