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CD Cataloging Problem

I recently inherited a collection of CDs. Mostly classical. I'm not deeply into classical music and I have my own small collection of classical CDs. The collection I inherited is small as well. Maybe 50-75 keepers.

The problem is that the former owner took them out of their jewel cases and stored them in large binders. He kept the insert with the cover art and liner notes.


I like CDs in jewel cases. I have adequate shelving for my CDs and these new ones and I like being able to browse my CDs to decide what to listen to. I do not want to flip though binders. Just a matter of personal preference.

Obviously I can buy jewel cases for next to nothing and put the CDs and inserts in them. But the spine end will be blank and that will make shelf browsing pretty much impossible.

Anyone have any idea how I can fix this without hand labeling jewel case spines? My handwriting is terrible.

(I know that I could rip them all and eventually I probably will. But not ready to go down that road yet.)
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uberwaltz
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You can actually print the cover art online, forget the site I used but I am sure there are plenty.
This included the title to go into the spine, all you would have to do is put a nice crease in the paper to look good.
I did this for some cd,s from Goodwill and some cassette tapes, came out looking pretty good on an el cheapo printer even.
It was formatted right at the site to come out right size for cd case and cassette case etc or even dvd now I think about it as had to do a few for ex RedBox movies same thing.
I am sure Google would find it.
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