How to Organize Your Personal DVD Collection

DVDs have been around for a good number of years now, and as a result a lot of us have built up quite a large collection of DVDs. If you're anything like I used to be, you may well have them scattered all over the place in no particular order. However, as I discovered myself, it's much better to organize them properly.

There's nothing worse than trying to scour through your entire collection looking for a particular title that you're interested in watching. It is a very arduous task and can take forever if you have a particularly large collection. However if you organize them in some way, then this is never an issue. So what are the best methods of sorting your DVDs?

Well there's no right or wrong way, but one way you can sort them is by the type of case. DVDs come in all different shapes and styles nowadays with thin plastic DVD cases for individual film titles and larger cardboard cases for larger box sets of entire TV series, for instance.

Another way you can organize your collection is by sorting them by genre. So for instance if you have a large movie collection you could sort them into categories such as action, comedy, drama, western, romance, etc. Alternatively if you have a wide variety of different DVDs, you could sort them into documentaries, movies, music, sport, TV comedy, TV drama and so on.

This will allow you to sort through them quite effectively, but for me the best method of organizing your DVD collection is simply to mix all the different types of DVD together and sort them in alphabetical order. That way I always know exactly where a particular title is at any one time. If you want to take this one step further you could sort them into genre initially and then by alphabetical order, but this basic method works very well for me.

The important point is that you actually sort your collection in such a way that you know exactly where a particular title will be when you feel like watching it. It's all too easy to organize them by date of purchase, but this will become a nightmare if your collection becomes too big, as many people have discovered in the past when buying music CDs. So you should ideally try and organize them in some way right from the start.

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