Is anyone else tired of only getting 22 pages of comic book fun a month? Plus whats is with all the ads? Grr! I dont care what is advertised in my comics!  
I love when a collection comes out in paper back. I can sit for a little while and get through a full story without gaps spent waiting and without constant ad interuptions. And it helps the story, i read Jeph Loeb's hush all in one sitting and I didnt see any of the twists coming because i was too into the story to actually stop and think. I dont know if I would have been as impressed if i had to wait for the next issue and then the next. Compare this to when I read Secret invasion as it came out, each time I would have to wait until the next issue came out, giving me plenty of time to try to predict the twists and by the time the twists arrived they felt like small revelations, Like of course Tony stark isnt a skrull, why would Marvel do that? And that is not a good attitude to have, when i read it in serialised comic books, I always fall into the trap of looking at other comic books out at the time or looking at marvel as a whole. Of course they wont kill off a character if he is currently their most popular (well im not always right) but when you read it in a collected trade, you can forget the rest of the MU or DCU and actually emerse yourself in the story.  
Here is another reason I love trades more than individual issues, re-reading issues. If I go back to read x-men/dark avengers and its all in issues, then I have to remove each one from their bag and then when i am done i have to put them back, for comics that were only 16 pages long that means i spend more time with the bags then i do reading them. In trade this doesnt happen. 
Am i going crazy? My imaginary talking hammer certainly thinks so, or is this a real problem? I guess my problem really lies with the small number of pages in a monthly comic. In Ireland and the UK they have great collectors editions that allow you to read three comics for the price of one, and i never complained about having to wait for each monthly edition.