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How Do You Store Your CDs?
lxs asks: "Let's face it, CDs are a pain. They are a great way to store your data, but when you have hundreds, or even thousands of CDRs and not much physical space, storage becomes a problem. With the advent of DVD+/-Rs DVD-RAM and Blu-ray this problem will not go away, since we all will collect thousends of those in the coming years. Jewel cases take up too much space; CD folders are better, but still wasteful (and expensive); and spindles are great, but you can't find anything. I've toyed with the idea of buying paper CD envelopes, and fill up a couple of old-fashioned 5 1/4" floppy cases with CDs (those were efficient: 200+ floppies in a plastic shoebox!), but there may be a better solution out there. So, Slashdot: how do you store your CDs?"
In CD racks. Yeah, I'm pretty boring.
perhaps more importantly, how do you catalog what's on those disks? Is there some easy to use software for cataloging disks?
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you know those long foam tubes you can get at the hardware to insulate pipes from freezing?
take a couple of those and stick them on the vertical surfaces of your cave (table legs,shelf edges and stuff) grab the trusty old x-acto and cut yourself some horizontal slits about an inch apart and presto! every narrow vertical surface is cd storage at hand.
plus, if you drink too much beer and fall over, you don't have to worry about hitting your head!
have you ever searched for a CD 15 minutes? it is the same as you don't have it anyway.
CD's are good after all, having what you want is also good, but locating the needed CD is much harder. Numbering CD's is very important, keeping them with increasing numbers, also. I took that question much more serious than others, windows users can check disclib
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