I've been reading a lot of trade paperback comics lately and two things have come to my attention a) they're fucking awesome and b) they're fucking expensive. So I've been pondering the idea of some sort of fannish comics lending community. For instance: I have volumes 1-4 of preacher and I'm interested in reading
Watchmen, if there was some sort of community where I could post what I'm looking for and also what I have to lend, maybe I could find someone who'd be interested in doing a (temporary) trade. Like a book borrowing club or something. Obviously there could be some problems, operating on the honor system, with not getting your books back, but I don't know how big of a problem it could be. Would anyone be interested in something like that? Or do you have any ideas about how it could be done better?
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A system of reviews for a person would work well, if it could be implemented, so as to prevent leeches.
Also, yeah, I think a lot of the drive for it would be stolen by the availablity of comics for download, both via bittorrent and IRC (check out http://www.comic-scans.net )
But I think this could STILL have motivation, given that often people have cool shit that the internet does not. For instance, I have had a devil of a time locating Hopeless Savages scans, even though it is one of the best comics ever (I only ever found someone with the first book); even worse: I cannot find anyone with Scott Pilgrim scans, even though it is THE best comic ever.