Long term book storage suggestions?

[Croesus]

Depending on the product, most comic stores also sell magazine storage boxes, which are heavier duty than the general purpose boxes at staples, and stack very well. You're hopefully using these for any Dragon/Dungeon issues you have, and paperback products might fit as well. I think the hardcovers are too large, alas.

These are what I use and they work great (mostly). I stack them two high with no issues, three high would probably be okay, tho a box of just magazines might be too heavy to go on top. They are cardboard, so provide minimal protection from water, fire, and other such hazards.

One issue is that box sets tend to be just a hair too wide for these - literally less than one inch, but still too wide to fit without crushing/bending.

 

[Yora]

Place them into one of those plastic storage boxes like this one I found at office dept.

Office Depot Brand 68 Quart 75 L Storage Box 11 78 H x 17 12 W x 26 18 D Clear by Office Depot

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That's basically what I was thinking about. Worked with them during an internship in a pharmacy as our supplier would deliver the drugs in them three times per day. However, those were heavy duty with steel reinforcements and might be a bit overkill. ^^

I think the key is to look for ones made from relatively thick but flexible plastic like PET bottles and bottle crates, not the stiff type that snaps under stress.
And yes, look at size. How much paper you can put in a box and still lift it depends entirely on the weight of the paper. Having large boxes that are only half filled makes them harder to store and only causes the books to jumble when moved, which isn't so great for hardcovers.

 

[Janx]

this is why comic books at the comic book shop shipped from Diamond come in smaller boxes. Jam packed with paper product, they're going to be heavy. So the box size is deliberately smaller (about 6" tall) to make the weight manageable.

Which also makes them good boxes for books. My comic book shop gives them away.


Like all cardboard boxes, they're not water or bug proof. But something along those sizes would probably work.

 

[kitsune9]

The banker's boxes are good but I would just go for boxes that smaller. Picking up smaller boxes of heavy books is a lot easier on your back and picking up huge boxes of heavy books. When I moved to our new house in Hayward, my movers thanked me for the smaller boxes than big ones.

 

[Ahzad]

These are the absolute best for storing Dragon Magazines and other like sized periodicals, like modules and the like.

The Collection Drawer Company

They are comic/magazine storage boxes like you see in your comic store, except these are drawer boxes so you don't have to unstack them to get to your stuff. They pull out like filing cabinet drawers. I used to run a comic/game store and I did a side project for one of my old customers cataloging, archiving, and appraising his collection and he wanted to go with these boxes. I was suitably impressed and am planning on upgrading my boxes to these. I figure put a couple of planks between the rows, not really necessary, b/c the boxes are designed to be locked together, toss a nice throw over them and most folks will think that is a nice table or something setting there instead of a stack of comic/magazine boxes.