Collecting Guides

Guides for organizing a growing vinyl, CD or cassette collection: what breaks down as it grows, and what collectors actually replace it with.

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A modular stocubo shelving system packed with vinyl records next to a turntable and headphones, in warm evening light

stocubo: modular shelving that was actually thought through for records

Most shelves hold records by accident. stocubo is a Berlin-made modular system with a module sized specifically for vinyl and CDs. A closer look at why it fits a growing collection, and how it works with Shelfify.

July 30, 20266 min read

Vinyl record collection in a Kallax-style shelf with handwritten genre labels in warm afternoon light

When alphabetical stops working

Alphabetical sorting works for a while. A look at the moments it quietly stops being enough, from DJ crates to multi-room collections to the day the R compartment fills up.

April 21, 20266 min read