How do you protect your doujinshi?

Question

I've bought a couple of doujinshi and would like to know the best way to protect and store them.

Answer 1

Did you buy the digital format or the comic/mag book form. If you bought the book format, treat it like a comic book. Many people store them in the comiccook protective bacgs with seal. I have a humidity controlled shelve for my comics, manga, library of classic books. I treal them as any archivist or libraian would store them. Keep them away from direct sunlight, fades the color just as with paintings, and magazines. Keep them in a cool dry place, Keeps them from getting mold. Store them in a place where they won't get the edges bent or crinckle the edges of the paper. I prefer the shelves with adjustible book-ends. I added a plexiglass front-guard (it's like a cabinet door) cause I have kids.

Now if you are talking about protecting them from a wife/or husband/kids...now thats something far more complicated. Mine I had to store in false bookcovers. This served two things. It protects the original cover while adding edge protection from crinckles, but it also kept her from exploring my doujin/doujinshi collection and throwing them out like she did when we first got together.

Basically, store them as you would any book in a library. I keep the rare, and collectible series in the shelf/cabinet I made since i have a locking system on it. For the series I share with my friends and kids, I just put on the shelves in plastic comicbook covers, I lable the covers with summaries, and discriptions of each, but thats just me cause I forget some of them since I have a huge collection.