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BS: CD 'sleeve notes'

30 Sep 02 - 03:34 PM (#794190)
Subject: CD 'sleeve notes'
From: GUEST,jennifer thorp

I bet there's some advice for me hidden in the archives but I'm not sure what letter to look under... is it actually possible to get the sleeve note booklets out of CD's without totally making a mess of them on those little lugs at the edge??? The fatter and more delicious the booklet, the quicker it gets knackered!
Jennifer


30 Sep 02 - 04:04 PM (#794214)
Subject: RE: BS: CD 'sleeve notes'
From: Amos

rey soaking the jewel case in a little olive oil first.... (ducks and flees)...


A


30 Sep 02 - 05:48 PM (#794292)
Subject: RE: BS: CD 'sleeve notes'
From: Susanne (skw)

Break the little b.....s off! Actually, you have my sympathy as I can't stand ruined booklets myself. So I try not to take them out and do it very slowly and carefully if I do. Better still, photocopy them and put them in a folder. You could even enlarge them and make them more readable that way.


30 Sep 02 - 07:48 PM (#794398)
Subject: RE: BS: CD 'sleeve notes'
From: Joe Offer

I slide my handy-dandy Imitation Swiss Army Knife between the plastic and the paper, and then it slides right out.
I was going to change this thread from BS to "tech," but maybe not - it's not quite technical enough...
-Joe Offer-


30 Sep 02 - 07:54 PM (#794404)
Subject: RE: BS: CD 'sleeve notes'
From: JohnInKansas

I'm with Joe on this one - although I'm not in the SAK fan club. I keep a CD opener (slitter) and a small palette knife handy near where I usually "unpack." If you guide the edges past all the "hookies" they come out fairly cleanly.

John


30 Sep 02 - 07:58 PM (#794410)
Subject: RE: BS: CD 'sleeve notes'
From: Áine

Ahem, since it's a 'jennifer' asking our advice here -- instead of looking for a Swiss Army knife, jenn, why don't you use a nail file? I don't know if you're a guitar player or not, but I always have a nail file handy, just in case I need to do some emergency reshaping when I sit down to play.

And, depending on whether you think you'll be wanting to look at the sleeve notes quite a lot, I agree that you should photocopy them, and put them in a special place. That way, you never have to bother with the bugger more than a couple of times.

All the best, Áine


30 Sep 02 - 08:31 PM (#794444)
Subject: RE: BS: CD 'sleeve notes'
From: Noreen

Aargh, Áine...assumptions!

I, though also of the female type, don't have a nail file in the house, but regularly use a swiss-army-knife-equivalent for all those little jobs.

Presumably men also file their nails, particularly guitar players? Do they not use nail files? Or use emery boards as I do? (Hate nail files!)

:0)


30 Sep 02 - 08:37 PM (#794449)
Subject: RE: BS: CD 'sleeve notes'
From: Áine

Well, Noreen -- My mama used to tell me not to pull out my knife unless I meant to carve sumpin' up, don't ya know *BG* It jus' weren't ladylike . . . ;-)

-- Áine


01 Oct 02 - 12:59 AM (#794619)
Subject: RE: BS: CD 'sleeve notes'
From: Amergin

i hate those bloody things too....use to take my rigger's knife out and use that...but some bastard lost it overboard in the columbia one fine afternoon....sigh...had a dashing monkey's fist on it that I made....


01 Oct 02 - 04:43 AM (#794674)
Subject: RE: BS: CD 'sleeve notes'
From: Bullfrog Jones

Agreed, Noreen -- just thinking about nail files puts my teeth on edge!

BJ


01 Oct 02 - 09:40 AM (#794727)
Subject: RE: BS: CD 'sleeve notes'
From: Willie-O

Re: Aine


Thet's jest the way the girls are from Texas. ;)=


W-O


PS Aine yer ma clearly warn't acquainted with the many uses of the Swiss Army Knife. Or else she wouldn't think of it as a knife at all, lacking the Buck or Bowie brand.


01 Oct 02 - 11:36 AM (#794804)
Subject: RE: BS: CD 'sleeve notes'
From: GUEST

why don't you just slide the booklet out toward the hinge side of the CD cover?


01 Oct 02 - 12:04 PM (#794820)
Subject: RE: BS: CD 'sleeve notes'
From: Clinton Hammond

Everything that gets used, eventually gets used up...

There's really no way to stop that...