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Innovative, compact, break-proof CD storage
Like many, I've found the transition from LPs to CDs didn't solve the space requirements of music storage. CD jewel boxes aren't as tall as LP's, but they're thicker. Stored spine-out on shelves, they absorb a surprising amount of wall space. Stored spine-up in drawers, they grow heavy in aggregate, and require rugged cabinets with industrial-strength roller suspension. Even worse, jewel boxes are a fragile container, and I've found myself replacing cracked and broken parts on a regular basis.

Some collectors have chosen to rip their CDs and store the physical artifacts in the basement, but this leaves the booklets and tray cards out of easy reach. Better would be a storage system that takes less space, weighs less, and is less fragile.

Enter the Jewel Sleeve.

The Jewel Sleeve is made of heavy duty vinyl with a compartment lined in non-woven fabric for CD protection. The CD booklet fits into the front-most compartment, the CD in the next, and the tray card (with the side tabs fully extended) in the rear. A small pouch at the top provides a space for an index card, laser-printer-ready sheets of which are provided. Fully loaded, a Jewel Sleeve is about 1/3 the thickness of a standard jewel box.

Once you've decanted your CDs into sleeves, you can either store them in one of the chests sold by Jewel Sleeve's vendor, or you can improvise. I've stored mine in cardboard bin boxes (such as the B36 model from Tharco), and stored the boxes on inexpensive shelving purchased at a home supply store.

The density of this storage system is vastly superior to lining your CDs up on shelves, but it comes at a logistical price: it's much simpler to visually scan CD spines on shelves than it is to flip through Jewel Sleeves in a box or drawer. You can solve much of this problem by indexing your CDS on your computer with the aid of a scanner and a program like Readerware.

Another price to moving to Jewel Sleeves is their cost. Jewel Sleeves aren't cheap. Okay, they're expensive. If you have a collection of 1000 CDs, you can expect to spend nearly $400 for sleeves, another $50 for bin boxes, and another $50 for shelving. Cheaper sleeves are available, including sleeves made from much thinner materials, sleeves without a non-woven pouch for the disc, and sleeves that don't store the tray card in a fully extended position.

A competitive sleeve (also available via Amazon), the DiscSox CD Pro offers similar features to the Jewel Sleeve, but with side (rather than top) slots for inserting and removing the disc, booklet and tray card. List prices for the DiscSox CD Pro appear to be slightly higher than for the Jewel Sleeve. DiscSox also make sleeves for DVDs.

Moving your CDs to sleeves can be an expensive proposition, but for those who've simply run out of space, and need to keep their CDs close at hand, this is a solution worth looking into. The Jewel Sleeve store on Amazon offers only a few of the goods and packages available from this vendor's home site. [©2007 hyperbolium dot com]

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Moles love it!
Pretty sure this thing actually summoned moles into my yard.

I think the little buggers are still laughing at this.

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THE Ultimate scratching post
Great item! Looks good, they can't tip it, seems very durable.

Now how do you get the cats to use it?

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Great surface
I have an extra wide ironing board and the cover that came with it was so thin. This cover makes a great surface to iron on, almost make me want to iron!

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good while it lasted
this was like i said....good while it lasted. i miss it too, even tho it was awkward to use. the hose was stiff & rarely stayed connected to the unit but it had good suction power to run off the lighter. i loved sitting in traffic cleaning my car! but the switch broke not long after i started using it. just a simple toggle; much too flimsy to hold up to regular use. i was never able to use the wet vac feature as the only power source was the car lighter. guess that's a good thing; that i never upended my liter of dew!

so if u can be very careful using the switch & put up w/ the hose being so stiff its hard to maneuver, i'd say its a pretty good buy. i'd buy another but i plan to buy a new switch for the one i have.

happy cleaning!!

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