CD Jewel cases - Over 20 years and no improvement

You're right! They are very delicate and break regularly. Like most packaging though, it never changes until someone invents a cheaper and/or better alternative -- and I bet those new approaches are often conceived by independent inventors. Remember the tin cans that required a can opener before the flip tops came around? There's money in this! Surely one of our Audiogoners can develop a new approach and retire off the patent royalties. We'll all certainly be grateful.

While you're at it, how about a better way to get the wrapping off? ;-)

Yeah, why not make them like SACD cases?????
And don't get me started on the cardboard things that you have to slide the cd in and out.

CD opener...I love mine.

Records still come in paper sleeves and fragile card jackets, come on dont drop em and you dont need to worry

This is one of my pet peeves. Every time I open a new CD case for the first time, one of the hinges pops open and then it seems as though its prone to do so for the rest of its life.