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i don't read comics or manga either but i agree with adira:)

I agree that a story is a story so I understand putting them (comics/manga) in your reading challenge but I personally like to keep them seperate since, as you said, they take far less time and often (esp comics) have way too many issues that I feel clog up my account. So I keep track of them outside of goodreads, like league of comic geeks for comics and MAL for manga since I prefer that method of organization 🫶

mar wrote: "I agree that a story is a story so I understand putting them (comics/manga) in your reading challenge but I personally like to keep them seperate since, as you said, they take far less time and oft..."

Exactly the same thing I do.

mar wrote: "I agree that a story is a story so I understand putting them (comics/manga) in your reading challenge but I personally like to keep them seperate since, as you said, they take far less time and oft..."

I love that, Mar! That’s really neat! Ah, I love good organized stuff!

absolutely a story is a story! the base is mostly the same and it's another set of skills. they are very much, to me, a cinematography and theater marriage, since we deal with dialogues and images mostly.

i too keep them totally separated on my shelves bcs it's a totally radical style compared to the world of novels, i go thru them in matter of hours. often i start and when im finish im like 10 volumes deep so i do try to be mindful when i read them bcs they are so bingeable to me

(last year, if i had counted all the manga i read, i literally would be in the 200 book count - so i try to limit myself to do 20% of the entiere goal can be manga/comics/graphic novels bcs im trying to read more novels, words and words on paper, and such).

A book is a book! Regardless if it's horror, romance, a comic book, manga, etc. If you read it, hell yeah you should categorize it as read for your reading challenge :-)

A story is a story.

For my own purposes I only count graphic novels or collections on Goodreads rather than individual issues.

I track OGN and collected editions in my reading challenge, but not single issues (which I track elsewhere separately) in periodical format. When I set my goal for the reading challenge, I set it with the idea that TPB/OGN will count. If I were just doing prose, my target number would be much lower. But then I don't track prose stories read in magazine or pulp format in the reading challenge either.

I only count them towards my yearly reading challenge if it's a collection, like a book that contains an entire story run. Graphic novels count as well. Single issue comics? No.

I specifically set my yearly reading goals knowing how much manga I read. So if I want to read 20 "real" books, and I know that I usually read about 20 manga per year, I would set my reading goal to 40.