Reader with long boxes.
I bag some...but rarely.
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Is that unusual among non-collectors? I still do long boxes, but mostly because they seem like the most logical way to store comics.

I don't think so. Comic boxes are, well, designed for holding comics. Just because you're not sealing them, slabbing them, and screaming at anyone who tries to touch them doesn't mean you want to throw them out.

I used to bag and board everything when I was younger. Now I just read them, and let the stack up. When the stack gets too big, I buy a long box, and put them in there, unbagged. I still do my best to take care of the books, mind you, I'm just not obsesive about it.
I also bag a book if I see its becoming a "hot book", like Green Arrow, X-Force, or whatever. Then I trade them into my comic shop for store credit, get the TPB for those issue I've traded, and still have a couple of buck left over to get other stuff.

It just depends on which books I bag. If I do bag them, I always put 2 books per bag, back to back. The books I don't bag are stuff that I have a huge run on, like, X-men, Thunderbolts, Spawn, etc.
I also only box the books that I'm currently reading.
If a title gets cancelled or I drop a book, I take the entire run and stick it in a brown box. I've done this with books like Superman, most Image books, etc.
I just recently went and put my books in alphabetical order. Nothing detailed, I just put the Transformers in the same box as Thunderbolts and such.
The one big problem I had was storage of all those DAMN boxes!
I must have 8000-10,000 books! I used to have the boxes in my closet buy I was running out of room. My boss gave me a 6 shelve storage rack that worked perfect, but I had to stick it in my garage. The bad thing about his was the humidity in Houston is fucking awful and the books that weren't bagged were starting to warp.
Now I have 2 flood lights pointing on the rack and it is draped by a huge tarp with a fan blowing on it at all times to keep the moister out.
I looks like a fucking huge shrine to comics and I feel the temptation to bow everytime I walk by it!

No chance in hell that I would sell my comics!!!

I have a couple shelfs that a stack my comics in.l One for X-Men titles another for Spider-Man titles etc.

The only comics that I bag are 'giant sized' issues, Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men, Origin, and my comics that I have autographed.

I also have another shelf for my TPB.

Jesus, man, that's insane. Utterly insane.

Most of my stuff is in the shed. No climnate control or anything, just out of the way and moved from their previous location in the garage.

A friend of mine has 44 long boxes filled. 44 of the damn things! He rents storage space just for his comics.

I know! It's freakin' pathetic!

I'm moving at the end of this month, we are buying a bigger house and I'll have more room to store my stuff inside instead of in the garage. I'll have a whole extra room just for shit like this. I also have a shitload of figures, posters, books(real ones without pictures and everything!) and a couple of chessboards I've been wanting to display, but couldn't.

I can't wait!

Here's how my comics are organized: I have all the collected tpb and graphic novels taking up two shelves (one of those shelves is solely Lone Wolf and Cub).

Then on a shelf above, I have two piles - one is of all the stray bullets I have, everyone released so far except the amy racecar color specials and number 21. The other pile is "special" comic books. My dark horse 48 page editions of Graffiti Kitchen and the Dance Of Lifey Death are here, as are the Birth Caul and Snakes and Ladders, the 5 issues of 300 (my only comics that are bagged and boarded...because they came that way), Egomania #1, Big Numbers #1 (I still can't get over finding that) and that sort of thing. Unique stuff, special stuff. The Punisher: War Zone #1, which might just be my favorite single superhero comic book ever.

Then I have one last pile where I just throw all the comics I buy that don't belong elsewhere. Old issues of Bacchus magazine, really old issues of Spiderman, a bunch of manga, and batman, and etc etc etc.

In a completely different place there's one really huge pile, which is all really old comics from like 6 years ago. Almost all spiderman. I don't look through that pile ever, really. Maybe I should throw it out.

Collecting is not an issue for me. I just don't like throwing out comic books, unless the book in question is really really awful. I feel dirty. So I keep em. I got the room for em, so I figure why not.

Most of the newer comics I buy come bagged & boarded also, so I try to keep them in mint condition and leave them that way. (Anyone noticed how a lot of new Marvels seem to have damage near the spine? Is it because they're not properly folded flat by the printer?) My main area of interest is Bronze Age, and when I get good copies of those I tend to try to keep them that way, too.

When reading more than one, though, doing & undoing the tape on the back is always frustrating. I'm thinking about trying some sort of comic-sized ziplock baggies.