In A Bind(er)

This is mainly just a random thought thing. For those who are binder collectors.

• Which binder usually has priority? Fave Team Binder? Super Player Binder? Set Binder? Other Binder?
• When do you consider purposefully having duplicates or more of a single card for binders?
• How full do you stuff your binders?
• Are you a double occupancy collector (two cards per pocket to show off the fronts only), or a one card per pocket?

I am a large mixed type of collector. I'm a set collector, and I am a team collector for my DC and B'More Teams. Yet I am also a player collector of fave players past and present plus Hall of Famers. Sure it would be easy to get three 1997 Topps Cal Ripkens, but three of his Rookie card? Not so easy. Forget about getting three of some of the 1960s and 1950s cards. Some of those it is difficult to find just one copy of the card in ANY condition (at least not until I'm a millionaire who can afford spending thousands on just one small 2.5" x 3.5" cardboard rectangle with paint and ink on it).

In my case the order would generally be Set, Team, Player, but for some players and HOFers it would be Player, Team.

If I ever get my collection organized the way I currently envision it, some day I will make fillers for Team and Player cards and put them in the set binders. Or maybe just not go through all that trouble.

Another thought if you already have things organized by Set, then your team and player binders would be mostly empty. Except for maybe the autograph and insert cards that are not real clear about what actual set they belong to.

You could make "fillers" for the spots of the cards that are in other binders. Either by making a card sized note that says something like "See Binder X" (or X binder), or maybe go the extra measure and make a black and white (maybe even color) photocopy of the card front with your note of where the real card is in your collection of binders. I've been thinking of doing that when I have a better handle on the organization of my collection.

Sorry for the quick and dirty out-of-focus webcam shot-pics (actually this last pic of the pages filled back-to-back came out pretty good). I needed pictures that just don't get done by a flatbed scanner and I wanted them fast.

Blogging and picture storage and backup

I've been thinking about this for a while. I want some opinions on what fellow card bloggers do. After one has scanned a card and blogged about it, or posted it to some online photo storage/sharing site do you delete the scan from your hard-drive to help free up space? Do you keep a copy of it? Do you copy it to a flash-drive, data disc (floppy for those with older systems), CD-ROM or DVD?

I've been keeping most of the stuff still on my hard-drive partly due to laziness and partly to have a back-up in case something happens online, or I have a brainfart and forget the image is already on the blog somewhere or online somewhere else. But lately I've been thinking of deleting most of what is on my hard-drive and if I have to re-scan something if I need it again.

So what do you all do?