I now have quite a few magazines that my work has appeared in and several that I have written articles for. I have been needing a way to keep them clean, organized, but accessible. Several years ago, when I worked for the National Psoriasis Foundation one of my jobs was keeping track of all the publications and I found some nifty little plastic do-dads that you slipped into a magazine or newsletter and then you could put them into a 3-ring binder. They were simple, worked great and did not damage the magazine. Awhile back I ran into Office Depot where I used to get them for the Psoriasis publications to find that they no longer carry them. By searching online I found them at a company called
Miles Kimball. I bought a bunch and today I rounded up my special magazines and put them in a binder.
You can see them holding the magazines here. That sheet of semi-transparent plastic in the bottom right of the photo is how they come—all attached. You just snap them apart and pop out the opening and ring holes. I love them—simple, effective and inexpensive.
PS: I may not have explained these very well. They are
not a sleeve or cover for the magazine, just the strip with three holes and an opening that you "hang" the magazine through. You do not have to take the magazine out of a sleeve or out of the binder to read it. Follow the link to Miles Kimball to see a photo that shows it better!
I don't know how we survived without plastic sleeves and ziplock bags...the spine on these sleeves looks nice and strong and able to bear the weight of the magazine.
ReplyDeleteI guess I am going to have to buy some of these... and in the mean time, you will need a CD holder for your new QA TV appearance too!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this, Terry. Much better than just stacking them up on a bookshelf!
ReplyDeleteIn one of my fits of organization (they only come every other year or so)I purchased a large box of sleeves and put things I wanted to save in them. They work wonders. Thanks for reminding me because I am off to Staples for paper but need a new supply of sleeves.
ReplyDeleteThanks for telling me about those magazine holders. They are exactly what I need. I'll see if I can get them locally, if I can't I'll order them from the place that you got them.
ReplyDeleteRats! Aussie magazines are often in A4 format - ie longer than 10 1/2 inches.
ReplyDeleteI got what they were/are and they look very neat indeed. I don't have much in the way of magazines to archive, but I'll keep my eye open for these doodads and maybe by th time I find them I'll have enough worthy of a binder.
ReplyDeleteBlast from the past; I used to get the Miles Kimball catalog. Haven't seen it for at least 10 years, though. What an elegant solution.
ReplyDeleteI still have a complete set of ZooBooks from 25 years ago when my now adult children were small. They are in binders held by those same Miles Kimball hangers. Now just waiting for some grandchildren to come along.
ReplyDeleteI use to have a bunch of those and didn't use them or like using them. I'm not even sure where they came from. I think I got rid of them, but I could have sent them to you. Oh well.
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