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[[Archive Binge]] is common for first timers of [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|this wiki]], (and [[The Other Wiki|the other one]]) as ''[[Xkcd]]'' [http://xkcd.com/609/ has pointed out]. It is also an increasingly common phenomenon with regard to TV shows, now that it is possible to buy whole seasons of a [[Long Runner]] on DVD.
It is not unusual for fans who have already been following a series to undertake several more archive binges, often initiated by an [[Archive Trawl]]. It's also good practice for [[Fanfic]] writers to undertake this, especially in a new fandom, or one they're going back to. It's often called "Canon Review" in these circumstances.
Contrast with [[Archive Panic]]. Compare [[Browser Narcotic]] for the non-linear equivalent.
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== Fan Works ==
* The fan made game ''[[Heta Oni]]''. It starts out dull at first, but you'll get hooked by the suspense, especially when {{spoiler|Japan goes into the kitchen of the haunted house to investigate, only to hear strange sounds in the foyer and find that the three he came with -- Italy, Prussia, and Germany -- are all gone.}}
* ''[[I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC|I'm a Marvel And Im ADC]]'' has over 100 videos on Youtube. That's 2 complete seasons of After Hours, working on a third, plus all the original format videos, parodies ad ads. And oh yeah, if you want to understand even half the jokes, you have to watch them all.
* ''[[Undocumented Features]]''. This fic started in early 1992, is still going strong today, and has several hundred stories with over 20 megs of text.
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== Print Media ==
* The '''Complete National Geographic'' has every ''[[National Geographic]] Magazine'' from 1888 to today: every page, every ad, and every article.
* The ''Oxford English Dictionary''. I'll just see this one little word... Hmm, while I'm at it, I wonder when exactly did "orbiter" come into use? Hey, there is a word "orby"? Gotta check it out. Hey, look, they've got an entry for [[Our Orcs Are Different|"orc" and "orcish"]], too! Come to think of it, into how many possible meanings can they distill the word "too"? Hey, a [[Robert Ludlum]] quotation! Are there any more quotes from my favorite writers?
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* ''[[Slightly Damned]]'' requires a long archive binge. The fact that it's a continuous storyline that references previous happenings frequently makes it worse.
* ''[[Acrobat]]'' is better when you read the issue(s) as a whole.
* ''[[8-Bit Theater
* Screencap comics ''[[DM of the Rings]]'' (144 strips) and ''[[Concerned]]'' (203 strips) (based on ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' trilogy and ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' respectively) are mercifully (relatively) short and now complete, making an archive binge relatively painless, meaning the elimination of merely hours of productive time rather than days or weeks. However, ''[[Darths and Droids]]'', inspired by ''DMotR'', looks set to run for many, many years to come, taking over 320 strips just to get a bit over halfway through Episode II. On that basis it'll take well over 1,200 strips to do all six movies. As of this writing, it's through with the first two movies and getting close to the end of the third, at around 580 strips.. The first two both took just over two hundred strips, the third looks like it'll be a good bit longer. 1,200 strips is probably a good estimate for the lowest end of the scale.
* [[BZ Power]].com 's The Editorialist made a series called ''Psycho Dogs and Carbonated Beverages''. It has over 300 strips. They even lampshaded this trope in one comic.
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* Deliberately averted with the ''[[Ciem Webcomic Series]]'', which followed a different syndication logic consisting of chapters rather than strips; in which all were released more or less around the same time. Not uncommon for a story [[Machinomics|made with]] ''[[The Sims]]''.
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' has well over 600 strips by now, and is still going. Updates twice a week.
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' has 863 comics as of April 1st, 2011, and is written as a full page per comic. Considering the nature of the story, it really is best to start on page one.
* ''[[Natalie Dee]]'' began in 2002, weekly since 2003, daily since 2005, with easily 2000+ comics.
* ''[[Real Life Comics]]'': Running since 1999, making it one of the oldest webcomics still active. Lampshaded in the 12th anniversary comic, where protagonist Greg is telling this to his newborn daughter:
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* [http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-350792/Anime-motivational-posters.html?pg=0 The Anime Motivational Posters thread at Crunchyroll.] First you see an anime you recognize, then you see one that's really smart, then you start to notice the hilarious banter between the moderator and the regulars, and before you know it, you've gone 200 pages. The fact that it grows around 5 to 10 pages a day does not help.
* This is frequently caused by ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'': over one hundred characters, each with their own unique storyline spanning almost a year of RPing. That's a ''hell'' of a lot of archive to get through, and the hours can be quickly whiled away reading the stories of a few characters you like, let alone the whole lot.
* Half the point in Board Hunting on [[
* The ''[[Whateley Universe]]'' site tends to cause this in some... which can be frustrating, or enlightening, when one reads five variations on the same story from different viewpoints. A hundred or a hundred fifty wouldn't be so bad, but they're all full stories. And some of them are (literally) as long as Harry Potter novels. Good luck on getting through even one of those in a single night.
* Archive binges can get ludicrous when applied to text-heavy mediums, like blogs. Long-running, text-heavy, frequently-updated blogs can easily take your free time for a week to properly binge. Of course, this also applies to series of novels, newspaper columns, and other similar media, but blogs tend to be the easiest to access.
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