How to store instructions?

[ChrisXY]

I have a bunch of them. Like 400. In different sizes, from super small mini micro sets & polybags to big ones.

Of course I googled it, found some articles and YouTube videos but none was good in my eyes.

Using 2 oder 3 clip binders and putting every instuction into a plastic sheet is good, but instructions fall out and if you store the binder upwoards like intended the instructions have their full weight at the bottom. They will "warp". So best way is to store those binders horizontally flat. Still doesnt solve the problem of instructions to fall out. But what about the tiny ones? Using a full plastic sheet for a 2x2cm instruction doesnt make sense. And some instructions are either bigger then A4 plastic sheets or thicker that they don´t fit...it´s a pain in the... :-( Also I would like to store all the small ones together in one, but they interfere with eachother and that could lead to damage...

Also card boxes where you hang the instructions can´t be good as the weight also is here towards the bottom.

What is the perfect storage?

Edited 11 hours ago by ChrisXY

[Stereo]

I just stack them flat on closely spaced shelves, so none of the piles are more than 10cm high, arranged in set number order so I can find them (eg. a pile of 42000 to 42140 of all the A4 size ones).  I don't have a huge amount of tiny ones but I put the quarter and eighth sheet size ones in a little tray that I can pull out of the shelf if I want to look.

Edited 10 hours ago by Stereo

[dartmar]

I use ring binders and plastic sheets but I use 4 different sized plastic sheets for the different sized instructions so they stay nice and straight. 

[MAB]

There is a huge range of choices. Ring binders with inserts, or box files, or old LEGO boxes to store them by theme, or a filing cabinet with hanger files, or a shelving system, or plastic drawers, or tubs with fitted lids, etc. It really depends how many you have, how much space you have, how often you want to access them, how much you want to spend on storage, what condition you want them kept in, and no doubt other factors.