Owning Collectables Digitally

Some of the recent import stuff has really highlighted that we need a way to say “I own this collectable digitally”, especially for things that have no physical release, like many of the short story anthologies and, I’m sure, lots more Big Finish in the future.

How I was going to handle it is as follows, please let me know if you think this is okay or needs some more thinking -

  • For a release that is both on physical AND digital media, think e.g. a Big Finish Main Range audio, or a book or audiobook, there would be ONE collectable that has TWO buttons - Owned (physical), Owned (digital).
  • You could tick one or both options!
  • You’d have two separate lists of stuff you own - stuff you own physically, and stuff you own digitally
  • For releases that are ONLY released digitally, they’d finally get a collectable page, but the only option would be to say that you own it digitally.

Would that work?

Oh and the “I own this” on individual stories might then go away, not sure it’s needed? But I’ll see how many people have used that first. It may be useful for example if you bought a copy of Blink on iTunes but not the entire of Series 3.

Also is there another word to use rather than “physical”? Because that sounds too… physical :sweat_smile:

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I think this sounds like a logical overhaul. Something I’d definitely use, because 95% of the things I have are digital and will likely remain so.

As for better words for ‘physical’… there’s ‘corporeal’ for a Doctor Whoy one, or ‘manual’ if we want to feel like boomers.

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Some of my pdfs are manuals, though…

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Sounds perfect to me. I’d definitely use this feature a lot because like @MrColdStream I own most of the things digitally. The only books I own physical copies of are those NSAs translated into Chinese. Yeah… that’s not many.

I think it’d be cool if “Owned (Physical)” and “Owned (Digital)” buttons have different colours. Or it shows if you own a physical or digital copy here:

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I own quite a lot of digital things thanks to Humble Bundle and BF sales so I’d definitely use this.

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Also Digital owner. Apart from some vinyl releases. So this would be a great new feature.

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