I bought about 1500 polythene sleeves from JazzLoft; every time I ripped a CD, if I could (*) I took it and the paper liner & sleeve out of the plastic box and put them into a sleeve. This saved a tremendous amount of space, but it does make the CDs more difficult to find.
The plastic boxes get donated to people at work - some folk still can't get enough of them, it seems. (Even so, there's still a big pile of them sitting on the floor; I haven't the heart just to chuck them out.) I can now fit more CDs onto the shelves (I still buy 'em); but I've now used up all the JazzLoft sleeves and haven't got round to getting more... and I'm starting to run out of space again! I rarely find myself referring back to the CDs, so really they could be stored elsewhere... except that there isn't really anywhere else for them to go in our house! I think the living-room would look bare without them. (Hmm, not sure SWMBO would agree on this...) (*) I have a lot of ECM albums and other CDs that have a cardboard surround outside the plastic box. That doesn't fit well into the JazzLoft sleeves, so I've kept the original boxes. Ditto for anything a bit out of the ordinary, e.g. plastic boxes whose colour or shape is an integral part of the artwork. Unfortunately, though plastic sleeve implies ripped, the converse isn't necessarily true, and I have come very close to ripping the same CD more than once. :-) -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78107 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
