Best Outer Sleeves for LPs


Is there a recommended type of plastic sleeve to protect valuable record covers from aging, yellowing, etc? I can buy them very inexpensively from the Princeton Record Exchange, but wondered whether they would have the desired effect. I've also seen poypropylene sleeves sold online at Sleeve City. Any recommendations? Thanks very much!
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Exactly correct, Elizabeth: 2.5 "mil" not "mm." Thanks!

My experience with the 5 mil sleeves is a bit different than Elizabeth's. I liked the heft and that they could stand on their own, but I found that same heft made them more challenging for me to insert LPs easily. And I found the hard edges at the spine of the LP to be sharp and uncomfortable when searching through the shelves for a particular LP. I found the 2.5 mil sleeves to more easily flex to accomodate insertion of the LP and more "finger friendly" when shifting aside the LPs on the shelves.

The nice thing about Sleeve City? They will send you samples of other products with any order. Just click on the "Get a sample" link in the product description. Then choose what works best for you.
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Second on the SLP3 from bagsunlimited. Very durable and not had one split at the seam.
This is another vote for Sleeve City Ultimate Outer 5.0 mil sleeves - a great product from a great company. I also recommend their Mobile Fidelity Master inner Sleeves.
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Hey Elizabeth, glad to see that you caught your error! ;-)

Being a civil engineer and a land surveyor, units are very important in my line of work. We need to keep track of them as we are constantly switching from feet and inches to decimal feet to metric. However, our favorite units of measurements are for velocity, where we love to measure speed in terms of Furlongs per fortnight. ;-)

And yeah, I agree with you that we should cast the Metric system into the ninth circle of hell! (It does nothing but make my life miserable whenever I have to use it.)