Sir I love the way you think out of the box and I thank you for sharing your tips!!! Having said that aside from cleaning up the jacket and record, my goal is always to leave everything in like new condition as much as possible without making permanent modifications. Think of what they might do in a museum… clean up and restore but make no modifications. I leave the original inner sleeve inside the jacket… put the jacket in its own plastic sleeve, put the record in a plastic inner sleeve and then put that next to the jacket in the jacket’s sleeve. My records never go in the original jacket ever again but I have all of the original sleeves and jacket to admire for the rest of my days. I’m just giving food for thought, and thank you again for sharing your tips

Great series of videos. Thanks for doing the in depth series.

Interesting ideal, For me if I have a record with printed paper inner sleeves I don't use them! I store them in the jacket. I then use a anti-static rice paper sleeve like the Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs inner sleeves. There are other rice paper inner sleeves without the MoFi branding that may cost a little less. A good, better, best for inner sleeves would be. Vinyl Inner sleeves = Bad - They can in some cases react with the vinyl record surface making a once shiny record look blotchy, this also will created surface noise. It might take a year or more for this to happen, once it has there's no repair or cleaning that will fix it. To identify these sleeves they are a cloudy whiteish/clear with a waxy/oily feel, they seem innocent enough but I will always replace. FYI even stuff coming out of RTI one of the best pressing plants in the US will use these sleeves and I'm not sure why. Paper inner sleeves = Good - They can cause scuffing on records but it's better than none! I always replace them with rice paper sleeves. Poly-lined Paper inner sleeves = Better - If a new record comes with one there no need to replace it. Rice paper inner sleeves = Best - Clearly MoFi uses them on there pressings and Analogue Productions as well. Both are audiophile level pressings! The consensus in the VC is rice paper inner sleeves are the best. :)

Thanks your video's are clearly expressed and easily understandable and the filming of the demonstrations are easy to make out, very straightforward . I will be ordering some of these sleeves n plastic covers, saving your videos !

I use these plastic inner sleeves but place them inside the white paper sleeves (or printed inner sleeve, if it has one) to give it extra protection and so it's not as flimsy on its own. No glue used, though.

I don't generally like destructive mods like adding glue or tape, but with half-destroyed paper inners there's really no other way if you don't want to do what I generally do, which is to simply replace the inner sleeve with a lined paper one like you showed, and leave the original damaged paper sleeve with its lyrics, artwork or other information in the jacket as well. Most cardboard jackets are roomy enough to hold an extra empty sleeve in such a way, but non-gatefold double LPs sometimes aren't, or if the original inner sleeves were thick cardboard instead of paper.

Hi Brian - great series! You recommend Taguchi sleeves but can recommend a source that doesn’t require shipping and customs costs from Japan?

Noooo! Glue the plastic sleeves to white paper sleeves! Keep the original sleeves inside the cover. Both will fit.

6.40 - That's a disaster waiting to happen!!