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What is the best way to store CDs on a shelf...
Upright, or flat? I'm talking about minimizing any damage to the cases, inserts and CDs.
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And the floating ice in the Arctic contains exactly as much water as that which it displaces.
Actually, there is a kind of logic in Thor's statement, in that the only sensible horizontal CD storage is the kind in which little prongs or guides keep each disc separate, so that they can be pulled out without disturbing the adjacent CDs. Of course, those guides take up space, too, so that fewer discs can fit in a given volume than when the CDs are on the shelf cheek-by-jowl.
Then, too, the width of most (if not all) commercial CD storage units is not an exact multiple of the width of a CD jewelbox, making horizontal storage innefficient, accomodating fewer discs per shelf than a vertical arrangement.
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However, the width (or length, if you prefer) of a shelf is much more likely to be closer to a multiple of the thickness of a jewelcase than it is to be the multiple of the length / width of one, since a jewelcase is so much thinner in one dimension than in the other two.
I don't see the logic in this; of course, 2-, 3- and 4-disc CD boxes and slimline single-CD jewelboxes throw off the exact fit of regular jewelboxes.
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he belonged to a cd/info storage institute in Boston
What I find amazing is that the above job description actually exists.Imagine putting that on your CV.
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Jun 14, 2006 - 10:17 PM
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Joe E.
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However, the width (or length, if you prefer) of a shelf is much more likely to be closer to a multiple of the thickness of a jewelcase than it is to be the multiple of the length / width of one, since a jewelcase is so much thinner in one dimension than in the other two.
I don't see the logic in this; of course, 2-, 3- and 4-disc CD boxes and slimline single-CD jewelboxes throw off the exact fit of regular jewelboxes.
Ok, say you have a shelf, and you have some CDs. Let's say the shelf is a measly eight inches wide. If you want to put CDs on it in their jewelcases lying on their backs, you can accomodate just one across, since two jewelcases edge-to-edge take up more than eight inches; you'd have to stack them, but you'd have some perfectly good space off to the side just going to waste, since it's not quite long enough to accomodate the height-turned-width of another jewelcase lying on its back.
If you put the jewelcases on their edges, though, they can fit a bunch side by side, and go all the way to within a small fraction of an inch to the end of the shelf.
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Jun 15, 2006 - 2:30 AM
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manderley
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.....Ok, say you have a shelf, and you have some CDs. Let's say the shelf is a measly eight inches wide.....
Okay, Mr. Joe.....
You're selecting the shelf measurements to fit your argument.
So, let's say, instead, that your shelf is 8 inches wide, but 10 inches tall.
You'll only be able to get 8 inches of vertically-stored cds on that shelf, but you'll get 10 inches of horizontally-stacked cds, plus about 3+ additional inches of vertically-stored cds. 
When I build cd shelving from scratch (macho person that I am ) I measure and build it so there is enough height and width to store the discs either way without compromise and waste.
Now get out your hammers, pine boards, finishing nails, sandpaper, primer, paint, and brushes and let's get started. 
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