Outer Vinyl Sleeves, is it a good idea?

Here is a trick worth every penny.

Every 2 thousand plus albums of mine are fitted in outer sleeves to protect the covers. The trick is to slide the covers into the outer sleeves OPEN END FIRST. It does two things, allows easy reading of the edge since there is no plastic covering it and it makes it much harder for any dust to penetrate the vinyl since the open end is deep inside the outer sleeve.

I don't know of anyone else doing it. I  should have a patent. But you guys get it free of charge right here. Try it, you'll love it.

As said above, I use them to protect the cardboard sleeve.

My collection is 2,000 albums, starting with my first album from the late 1960’s. In the 80’s I started collecting seriously with mostly new and audiophile versions. I used a machine to clean all old records, treated with Last, replaced the inner sleeve and an outer sleeve. 

The outer sleeves are loose fitting and prevent frictional wear of the album cover. I have never experienced any adverse effects and virtually all my albums are in outstanding shape.  I definitely recommend outer sleeves. I've not noticed them being a problem reading the spines. 

Nothing but a nuisance in my opinion. If you own a thousand or more LPs, do you mean to tell me you don’t want to risk wear on the album cover from pulling an album out of a record rack? If so, that means you’re likely playing only a select few LPs over and over again. Anyway I save about one out of 5, stuffed in a drawer.

Depends how much ring wear on album covers bothers you, I suppose. I try to avoid ring wear so I use outer sleeves.