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I know we've touched on this topic in other discussions, but thought it'd be easier to collate everyone's opinions in a dedicated thread.
If you're buying the individual IDW issues, do you intend to also buy the trades? Do you intend to buy just the trades? Will the trades have additional material (essays, editorials, etc.) not found in the individual issues? Will all variant covers (including the incentive covers) be included? And what about the collected trades (hardcover books); will you also be buying those?

I'm done with 'floppies.' IIRC it was during the second month of DC's New 52 in 2011 that I scratched my lcs pull list and haven't look back. The cgrowing collector in me loves thick, nicely designed hardcovers.

I buy the individual comics, and those I don't choose to keep I pass on to some child or other. I will only buy the trade pb in rare instances. For instance, I think I will buy the second Uncle Scrooge trade, so as to have "The Grand Canyon" (to be printed in U$ 4 & 5) all under one cover, and in a format which I can shelve next to U$ 353, which contains "The Great Paint Robbery," the other story with character Mercedes Pujol.
Since I don't save all the comics I buy, but rather only the particular stories I will want to re-read, getting the individual comics makes more sense. The "floppies" I tend to store by category of story (lake monster stories, Sherlock Holmes takeoffs, stories by a particular favorite writer), rather than in order by issue number.
I was interested to see, in an essay on The Mary Sue with advice for parents looking for comics for their kids, the argument that it's better to get kids the TPBs--more durable and better value. That may be so, but my childhood memory is that the size of the regular comic book was part of what made them seem child-friendly.
I pick the cover I like best of the options: so far, that's the regular cover, with the exceptions of U$ 3 and MM 2, where I prefer the sub cover.

I have never seen the USA Trade Paperbacks. I am confused about their size. what are the dimensions? I have the impression that they are smaller than the regular comic books, but larger than the pocketbook size page. I know now that they are fully in colour. But, I suspect that the paper quality is lesser than that in the regular $3.99 comic books. Is that correct? But, I assume that the purchaser receives significantly more pages of comics per money spent, than on the flimsy $3.99 comic books. They have a harder cover, which is "squared off" due to thickness, and that provides a sturdier binding.
At Sanoma Uitgevers, we have Donald Duck Extra collections, with individual DD Extra monthly individual comic books entirely bound in one large book. it is the same size as the regular monthly issue. We also have "Big Fun", a thick book with random reprinting of stories mostly from Egmont (most of which haven't appeared in our weekly). We also have annual big books, "Groot Winterboek" and "Groot Vakantieboek", which reprint stories that have already appeared in our weekly Donald Duck magazine. In these big books there are new covers, but lower quality paper than in the weekly. And, they provide more comics pages per money paid.

Won't be getting the trades, and I'll have to figure out which of the series to stop getting because I can't get them all. Maybe I'll be able to pick up the trades on sale eventually for the series I don't get.

Beats me.

Not worrying about the trades myself--my collection goes back to the beginning of Gladstone, so I much prefer being able to say I have Donald Duck #246-368 (to date), Uncle Scrooge 210-406 (thus far) than saying I have DD#246-367, US#210-404, and some trades
(I'll be saying the same about Mickey Mouse and WDC, but they haven't been released yet :D )
I'm just too sentimentally attached to the "floppy" format.

Trades will collect 3 issues in a book.