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June 21, 2005
Shelving My Addiction or Promiscuous Corpse Flower
I've got a seriously bad "anime addiction". So much so that I've completely run out of room to store my DVDs. I'm just piling the DVDs on top of each other in any free corner I have. I'm running out of corners.
(Click either of the above to see all the photos, there are 7 more of different corners) Basically, I need a new shelf to store the anime DVDs that are just laying about. I'd like a big-ish one that is specifically designed to hold DVDs. It must be attractive (and being made out of wood helps, although it could be black and wood). It must be from a place that delivers in the US. It must not be from a place that delivers using Airborne Express/DHL. Those crazy people deliver to the apartment complex's office and never tell you or they never deliver it and tell you 2 weeks later. No way I am dragging a 50 pound unassembled box up 2 flights of stairs (to the 3rd story) in 112° heat. It just isn't happening. Anywho, I don't like the shelves that have each level too far apart to hold DVDs. If you look at my other photos, you can see what I have now. I really like the design and the woodness of the two identical shelves, but I really hate how very, very few DVDs they hold. I'd really appreciate any suggestions on DVD organization furniture. And you can always see the anime I currently have (along with a few non-anime titles I tested DL with but am too lazy to delete) at http://www.unsanity.org/rosyna/dvds/. I kind of wish Geneon, ADV, or FUNimation would give me some freebies since I spend so much on their anime.   Posted by rosyna at June 21, 2005 07:32 PMTrackback Pings: TrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Shelving My Addiction or Promiscuous Corpse Flower: What APIs do I own? from Sorting It All Out Tracked on June 21, 2005 10:05 PM Related:
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W O W! That is SOME collection u've got! I saw a shelf system somewhere that might be just what you are looking for but I can't for the life of me remember where. It was sort of like a DVD lazy susan but not quite. The shelves were mounted so that you could slide them around. It may have been a custom job. The way it worked you had like 3/5ths of your collection visible with the rest hidden behind so that it let you store almost twice as many DVD as a traditional unit of nearly the same dimensions (it was of course a bit thicker). I don't have a DVD/game collection even close to the size of yours but I have even less space to store them so I have been thinking about doing like I did with CD's and just stick all the disc's in large disc books and putting the cases in boxes in the attic. Posted by: Twist on June 21, 2005 9:24 PMThis : http://www.cdcabinet.com/ is very expandable. Made of steel and finished in a satin powder coat tho. Pretty neat IMO. Posted by: T@ on June 22, 2005 1:58 AMIkea...? Swedish particle accelerators. I like the capacity of http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=999928500050007&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat32500050011&id=pcmprd28600050007 (just to show you that I don't have insane tastes). Posted by: Rosyna on June 22, 2005 10:03 AMI don't mind when you buy medium sized items because when they fall on you, they will only hold you there long enough for you to reach your PowerBook and IM me for help. But if you buy that damned massive thing, when it falls on you after placing the final dvd in it, your neighbors will hear a thump of some sort, figure you passed out (again) and go about their business. Then I'll stop by sometime to pick you up for Los Olivos and have to dig thru "the Princess Blade" and "cocks of fury" to find your dead body still listening to your iPod photo watching slide shows of your trip to the tokyo and spanish bathroom.
I share your worries about stacking DVDs because of lack of space... my count is at 2000, thus a good square cube of DVDs and I'm still looking for a good way to store them in a well-looking fashion (you know not the ugly-lookin-shelve way). So I'll come back to this area to look for solutions ;-) Posted by: Raf on June 22, 2005 1:31 PMhttp://www.dvd-intelligence.com/main_sections/executive_interviews/remy.htm some quotes: "If one robotic arm should malfunction, the other is able to take over." Posted by: mark on June 24, 2005 9:39 AMGet an XServe RAID cluster and digitize the whole collection!! Posted by: Josh Zerin on June 24, 2005 7:13 PMI don't know about your storage issue, but I do trust you have good smoke alarms and a fire extinguisher(s)? If your collection were to ever go up in flames, the fumes released would be a bit more than detrimental. Posted by: CREB on June 28, 2005 10:15 AMYou've got almost as many anime DVDs as I have, man. My collection's stopped growing though because I haven't had the money. I'd have two or three more DVDs than I have now, but I decided instead some time ago that I'd purchase a bunch of these computer programs called haxies instead :-P So in all this, you never mentioned: What are your favorite animes out of all that? My personal favorites are Rurouni Kenshin & Full Metal Alchemist (I owned all 95 episodes of RK on fan-subbed VCD long before Cartoon Network ever even mentioned his name and now I own all the DVDs, though admittedly CN is where I started watching Full Metal). Posted by: Bakuryuuha on June 29, 2005 8:35 AM |
