DVDs and Organization

Last night's normal plan of keeping off the computer kind of failed by a large, 100 kg file cabinet in the middle of my apartment. I was very happy with it, mainly because I've been looking forward to getting it for a few months and finally have a chance to file my DVDs properly. Yeah, I have a lot of them. Naturally, since I had a new toy and my DVD database was out of date, I decided to re-enter them, figure out which ones I'm missing, and normalize the titles.

And, since it drove me nuts, make sure there is a description for each one instead of having 30 "Simpsons, The" without any indication of which season or episode. So, I plan on giving them a slightly better title, "Simpsons, The [S01, V2]" ("S" is season, "V" is volume or disk) which would sort better, tell me which season and which volume. I spent a fair amount of time thinking about it, and this seems to be the format I like the best for aesthetics and usability for my collection. More so with my anime since I want "Hellsing [V2]: Blood Brothers" to sort and file properly instead of seven identicaly "Hellsing" entries. Anime is always the hardest to sort, because you can't just jump over to http://www.imdb.com/ to get information.

I have a lot of DVDs. I'll full admit that. I don't watch TV, I watch movies and anime. Over the years, I've managed to gather up a sizable collection which is why I now have a file cabinet to store them. I also hate DVD cases as being too thick, so I shoved all of them into mini cd covers with a nice normalized cover that puts a small picture on it, along with important information to me, such as rating, genre, description, and running time. It occasionally can be a lot of work to organize it that way, but... I enjoy it and it is nice having a good library of movies to watch.