How do you store your mags so you can reference them?

[Emirikol]

I need some ideas for storing my Dragon & Dungeon mags so I can reference them easier. The big cardboard box I have isn't very efficient. Is there a better way?

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[Dirigible]

I keep 'em in cardboard vertical file magazine boxes. Lets you see the spine and pull out the one you want.

 

[Chronosome]

I keep 'em in cardboard vertical file magazine boxes. Lets you see the spine and pull out the one you want.

Hey, that sounds good. My stacks are getting high, too.
Are those boxes something you'd find at Staples?

 

[Dirigible]

We don't have 'Staples'. I got 'em from Whitcoulls, a book shop chain.

 

[Orius]

I keep 'em in cardboard vertical file magazine boxes. Lets you see the spine and pull out the one you want.

I plan on doing that -- someday. Right now my Dragon magazines are on a pile on my self. It's a pain in the ass when I want a magazine from near the bottom of the pile.

Are those boxes something you'd find at Staples?

Almost certainly, yes.

 

[Kesh]

Three ring binder, and plastic magazine holders. Put holder in magazine, insert into binder. Put binder in a box, or on the shelf spine-up.

 

[Altalazar]

I have really big bookshelves, the kind you order from office max that have like five shelves, each shelf big enough to hold a full sized rulebook or module, and a few even taller than that.

I store all of my gaming stuff on such shelves - it takes two full ones to hold it all now. D&D Core stuff, plus FR, plus Ravenloft fills one whole shelf.

Basic D&D plus miscellaneous 2E modules and such fill another shelf.
1e and 2e hardcover rulebooks and all 1E modules and such fill another shelf.
Shadowrun fills a whole shelf.
Part of a shelf has miscellaneous other games.

Then I have almost three full shelves of Dragon magazine (every issue) and almost one full shelf of Dungeon (every one). With the new format since 3E, the spines are now all square and so they actually fit on the shelf nice and are easy to reference. (The earlier issues have thicker spines than ends, so they don't always go on the shelf very evenly - i had to take the middle bunch of them and put them in spine back - which isn't too big a deal since there isn't anything to see on the spines anyway.

 

[WayneLigon]

I keep 'em in cardboard vertical file magazine boxes. Lets you see the spine and pull out the one you want.

These are what I use. They can be found at any Wal-mart, or office supply place.

 

[Henry]

I store 'em in a regular pattern - hollow point, armor piercing, dum dums, hollow point, armor piercing, dum dums, that way if I need...

OH! Those magazines! I store my Dragons & my Dungeons in plastic magazine racks, which I get from Office Depot/Staples.

 

[Arnwyn]

I chop out the articles that I want, and insert them into the appropriate game books that deal with that topic.

For magazines, it's utility and functionality over...uh... anything else.