I know that I'm a little late to the party but better late than never. I just finished putting all of my CDs (the one's originally in plastic jewel cases) into polyethylene plastic sleeves with flaps. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UHEFX6/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=) The sleeves are fairly well made and the price was right at about 3.3 cents (US) each. I needed just under 3,000 (2,850) sleeves.
What I did was place the CD and the booklet together into one sleeve, with or without the tray insert (the piece of paper that is located below the plastic CD holder). All CDs were inserted with the label side facing the plastic and the data side resting against the paper booklet. If the tray insert contained information that was not in the booklet then I removed the insert, folded it in half and placed in the sleeve. For double CDs sets I placed the booklet and both CDs along with the folded tray insert between the CDs. For three and four CD sets I used two sleeves. All boxed sets not in plastic cases and all CDs in cardboard "digipak" cases where left in the original cases. I then placed all the CDs (the ones on in plastic sleeves, the ones in cardboard cases and the smaller box sets) back onto storage racks. As stated by Zoltan in the quote below, while it is not possible to read the spine of the CDs in the plastic sleeves I can still find the approximate location of any CD by reading the spines of the cardboard cases. When I was all finished I managed to fit my entire collection of over 3,000 CDs onto three racks which originally held approximately 1,100 CDs. I now have relatively easy access to any CD should I care to read the booklet or have a need to re-rip the CD. I also now have room for more book cases. Now if I could convince my wife to get an ebook reader and get rid of the print books :) Zoltan;561941 Wrote: > I noticed someone mentioned the JewelSleeve approach earlier. > > I used something similar from www.jazzloft.com with great success. > > I'm pretty sure I looked into JewelSleeve at the time and am guessing > it was the cost that decided it. The sleeves from Jazz Loft are 15 > cents, or 7.50 USD for 50, whereas they are 24 USD from JewelSleeve. I > don't know if there is any technical difference between them but the > Jazz Loft ones are good enough for me. > > BTW, the sleeves don't look like much in their unfilled form but once > the CD and inserts are in they seem a bit more substantial - it becomes > a bit like a mini gatefold LP. The main disadvantage of them is that > you can't easily read the spine. This isn't much of a problem for me > as I have enough CDs that are in non-standard boxes etc., interspersed > with the sleeved ones, that I can quickly get to the right ballpark if > I need to (which is rare in any case these days). -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80369 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
