THE ULTIMATE CASE LOGIC YAY OR NAY THREAD - megasolution to megaproblem, or, "Do I Dare?"

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Moving. 11 milk crates full of cds in jewell cases. You know where this is going.

I'm sure a few great big Case Logic books would do the trick, condensing the cargo into less than 10% of what it is.

I've avoided this for years - I don't like that there is no space for the back cover of the CD. I don't like that the CDs (and their more fragile counterparts, the CD-Rs) are exposed to air / dust / etc. I've spent a great deal of time and energy over the years putting CDs that come in a digipacks / cardboard sleeves / etc into jewell cases. I'm a simple man and I just like jewell cases. I like the spine, the illusion of durability, and the general shape. Period.

Also, many years ago in college, my buddy did her radio show and then went to the dining hall, checking her Case Logic book at the door. It was stolen and she lost 90% of her fairly huge collection in one fell swoop.

Am I paranoid? Any of you guys use these? Are the CDs less protected in those crappy plastic sleeves than in a jewell case?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 February 2004 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The idea of having a bunch of cd's without their liner notes and cases just viscerally horrifies me. How anti-fun is that?

I might change my tune if I had thousands of cd's, who knows.

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Saturday, 21 February 2004 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, the BOOKLETS are still there....

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 February 2004 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

CaseLogic is for weenies.

Granted, I own 3 CaseLogic books and only carry one-at-a-time lest I be construed as pretentious.

So don't go the Case-Logic route.

― The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Saturday, 21 February 2004 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Get your friends to help you. You can assuage their fears by telling them at least its not 11 milk cartons of vinyl. That's how to lose friends.

― tipustiger, Saturday, 21 February 2004 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

but I have those too

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 February 2004 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i have all of my cds in four books, well almost, it makes life easy. they fit on the shelf. i have not any sentimental attachment to records as artifacts though, only the music, so it works for me but maybe not someone else. i also mainly have records that no one would want to steal so that works as well.

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 21 February 2004 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i say nay! Here is where all those case logic books end up:

http://www.stealitback.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/CategoryDisplay?cgrfnbr=32029943&cgmenbr=31895249

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 21 February 2004 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Nothing is more beautiful than a wall of jewelcases, an ever changing painting. Other packaging with the same size in dimensions, like digipacks, are fine with me. I definitely consider them part of the whole deal. What's the fun of only a disc or cd-r? Damn, some albums are more famous for their cover art than the music they behold. Using Case Logic Books as a permanent way of storage is like putting only the records in a harmonica-suitcase (remember those?) and throwing away the inner and outer sleeves. But the small Case Logic Books (12/24 discs) are perfect for travelling with your discman, car or to get some discs safely to and from a party.

― Roger T (Roger T), Saturday, 21 February 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I got six of these cases:

http://www.gift-catalogue.com/media/CD-60-BLACK.jpg

It's kindaddictive.

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Saturday, 21 February 2004 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

No cracked cases with this one?

― Roger T (Roger T), Saturday, 21 February 2004 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

(if you are talking in my direction, Roger, the 60-carrier cases themselves are sturdy and not a one cracked...individual jewel cases themselves are usually cracked upon delivery...inserting j.cases into slots can be hazardous when inebriated...otherwise i luv'em...put appropriate discs in case, strap on shoulder harness and GO!.........okay , I don't use the shoulder thingy....)

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Saturday, 21 February 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i want one! or seven!

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 21 February 2004 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

get an ipod. encode all your cd's. put them in storage.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 21 February 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

My apartment IS my CD storage area.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine too. Trouble is, it ain't on wheels.

How I envy the crunchy folks who can move with nothing more than a backpack and a duffel bag.

No one has really answered my question about the actual PROTECTIVE quality of the Case Logic books. Aesthetics aside, is it any less safe for the actual CDs than putting them in jewell cases?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

when my gf moved from cali to nyc, she replaced her jewel cases with something like these, which work very nicely.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I did the same before my last move, but I got the sleeves from here. The double-pocket ones are wide enough to hold the tray card in one pocket, disc and booklet in another. Giving up browsable spines forced me to alphabetize, which is no fun at all, but that aside, I have no complaints.

― brian patrick (brian patrick), Saturday, 21 February 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

No one has really answered my question about the actual PROTECTIVE quality of the Case Logic books

It all depends on the owner. If you shove your discs inside the plastic maps without care or two on top of each other, they will scratch. If you don't avoid getting sand or crumps inside your Case Logic Books, the end is pretty near as well. Like I wrote before, they're great for getting some music transported, but the real protection lies in your own hands.

― Roger T (Roger T), Saturday, 21 February 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, fair enough. But as far as the material that the cd lays on top of, this is safe?

I don't care at all about the aesthetics, what Roger T poetically refers to as an ever changing painting. I used to agree with you on that 100% but I'm trying to get more practical in my old age, and, even after the move, it just isn't fair to insist that I get a whole room to store my cumbersome obsessions while poor Jessica must work on her books and art on the coffee table in the living room.

Believe me, I don't want to do this at all. I just think it'll make life easier, and if I can be positively assured that the CDs will have the same shelf life in the binder as they do in jewell cases on a rack, I'm going for it. But NOT until then.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 February 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

But as far as the material that the cd lays on top of, this is safe?

Definitely. It's napkin-like paper pasted inside a small plastic bag, comparable to those protective plastic sheets one can put around a recordsleeve.

― Roger T (Roger T), Saturday, 21 February 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

My apartment IS my CD storage area.
It was the same for me until a couple of months ago. I finally got tired of rearranging clothes, furniture and books around my CD (and vinyl) storage needs. I snagged a good deal on some CD booklets at a Boxing Day sale and I made the switch. Number one reason not to do it :theft, as Roger said, I'm really fucking paranoid that somebody can walk into my place and steal hundreds of CDs with a couple of booklets under each arm. Number one reason to do it: long-term planning. Everytime I reorganized the apartment, I'd buy myself a few more months of order, and then I'd have to do it all again, and I didn't want to keep that up for the rest of my life. Plus, I have a lot of vinyl, and it's impossible to save storage space with vinyl, so something had to give in my vinyl vs CD storage battle.
Speaking as an "expert" in optics, I too can assure you that the material in the CD booklets is safe. It doesn't pick up dust or lint and is quite similar to the lens paper material that we use to clean the optics in our lab.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 21 February 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I have all of my CDs and DVDs in the huge CaseLogic binders. I also have all of the CD / DVD cases in boxes. I'm waiting until I move into my own place to free them all from their binders. No roommates = less shit "disappearing."

― dean! (deangulberry), Saturday, 21 February 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I keep all my burned cds in the 50 stack things that you buy them in. There is no other way!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 21 February 2004 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

how the heck do you find anything spencer?

― tricky disco (disco stu), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

each stack is different. one for my own mixes, one for copies, one for compilations, one for my portables. There's fifty in a stack and it's surprisingly easy to lift them up a bit and look through them as they drop back down onto their place on the spindle. I also have an "active" one for the car. I found that it was impossible to really order (as in keep the discs in order) the case logic binders, so it's kinda similar actually.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i would stay that organized for about a day!

i'm about to begin encoding my collection to a few hard drives (and finally got an ipod), but it's going to be so time consuming.

i have a few of the case logic cases and they've held up for more than a decade...

― tricky disco (disco stu), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

I have some cheap ass drugstore Case Logic knockoff CD books, and recently I've noticed the plastic sleeves are removing the ink from the disc faces. If I don't pull the CDs out regularly, they tend to get a little 'stuck' and when I pull them out, they leave behind print. It sucks because it makes the case look ugly and is probably slowly damaging the CD.

Is there a high end, durable, state of the art kinda Case Logic style book that fits 200-300 CDs and won't do this??

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 04:45 (sixteen years ago)

Nobody?

Is there an alternative to the plastic sleeves? Maybe mesh?

Help!

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 27 June 2009 05:30 (sixteen years ago)

There are companies that make sleeves with a mesh inner thing, but then you'd have to put the discs in face-in and it seems like you'd get scratches?

― next stop: NOWHERE, i wanna get off (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 27 June 2009 06:35 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, I guess you're right. It seems crazy that there isn't a better system for maintaining / preserving loose CDs than these binders.

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 27 June 2009 06:51 (sixteen years ago)

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