Albums

After a few (very frustrating) years of struggling to get decent photos out of a less-than-two-megapixel digital camera about the size of a shoebox (felt like that, anyway) that drained its double-A batteries in minutes flat, I have finally upgraded to a camera from this millennium and am awash in digital files just waiting to be printed in all their full, non-pixellated glory. The best ones will get hung on the wall or framed on a shelf, but I'm not sure how I want to store the rest. In my space-starved apartment, I can't imagine clearing out entire bookshelves to make room for albums, but I also don't know if the increasingly popular photo-storage boxes really encourage perusing (and when they do, don't you get fingerprints all over everything?).

I do kind of like this set of clear boxes from The Container Store ($12), which at least lets you sort your snapshots into themes and identify and pull out just the ones you want (again, without getting your grubby paws all over all of them), but it's not terrifically attractive. [pics after the jump] Read More »