The utility and accessibility arguments are all pretty reasonable, but there is something about a stack of cards - ungraded and slightly sleeved - in an old box that does it for me. I store all of my sets in snap-together index card file boxes with tag slots for the name and year. I admit that I don't dig into the boxes as often as I once did, but I think more often than if the sets were in binders on a shelf - which, when I tried it, reminded me of the SOP manuals I was required to maintain and read at a workplace I loathed...maybe an unusual experience.
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