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Storing lego instruction booklets

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Has anyone come up with a good way to store lego instruction booklets. they are all different sizes.

I would like have a binder that i can flip through that has the manual stored in themes,
I have some clear pages that sorta work and fit manuals but they are all over the place.

just wondering if anyone has any better ideas or seen better ideas.
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When I was a kid my dad laminated the single page instructions. The ones you use to get from small sets,
We then put then into a binder. But for the multi pages instruction I keeped them in a briefcase like thing.
Know cause I have way to many there are just in a large rubber maid bin.

Probably the best would be like you said, theme binders and 3 hole punch the instructions.
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I use a full sized front-loading file cabinet with hanging folders. I have quite a few booklets though. The folders are sorted by theme.
I own a bit of Lego. A little obsessive by some peoples standards.
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I picked up a plastic bin specifically for files,separated by themes in file folders.then I can stack the bins when I get more.


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I bought a plastic bin with drawers but eventually it was not match for the weight of the instruction booklets and it seriously warped till unusable. Now they just go in a big cardboard box. Not much of a system. On the other hand I'm finally getting a handle of my Lego inventory to make it somewhat useable. But slowly realizing that my selections have been too diverse and I need to focus more to make it more useful.
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I started a filing system but they all don't fit into one drawer anymore so I got some special stacking filing bins but for now just throwing the newer ones in there.
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i throw them into a box . and if I need one, I'm too lazy to look through the box and just look it up online
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Brickhead wrote:i throw them into a box . and if I need one, I'm too lazy to look through the box and just look it up online

For a guy that likes to build using instructions I would have thought you would have them all in plastic bags and labeled. rotflol

If I need instructions I do the same as Dave. Sorting bricks is more a priority for me. :D
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AC wrote:For a guy that likes to build using instructions I would have thought you would have them all in plastic bags and labeled. rotflol
I'm going to assume this was directed at me. But you're also assuming that I've been actually been building sets. :)
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That we for Dave.
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