General Forum

I recently got some amazon gift cards and was looking at getting some D-ring binders. I am looking to get some that could hold a full Topps, Donruss, or Fleer set from the 90s or flagship Topps from today. I know that is around 1000 cards. So my question is what size do I need to complete my request?

I think 3 inch D-Ring binders for a large set like that. Most of my 90s Topps set binders can hold the traded set, too. So that's 792+132=924. 

I know I have one 3-inch binder with 87 Donruss (660), Rookies (56), Highlights (56) and Opening Day (272) for a total of 1,044 cards. 

The least expensive I have found binders is bulkofficesupply.com.

I plan to purchase more notebooks for my collection. I have found the best way to determine notebook size is to measure the height of a stack of pages with cards in them. Suppose it's 3 1/2". Then the best notebook, would be a 3 1/2" binder. The flat part of the D-ring will be 3 1/2" also. Any notebook bigger will be a sloppy hold for pages, while going smaller will cause pages to ride up the D-ring and potentially curl cards.

Added....I should note, I put one card per slot in pages, some do back to back with 2 cards per slot.

I store all of my Topps sets in binders (back to back with 18 cards in a page) and found that they'll fit in a 2 1/2" binder if you're only storing the base set. If you start adding any insert sets, then you'd probably wanna go with a bigger size.

Use caution, a cheap Dollar Store 3-inch binder full 9-pocket pages and 600+ cards weigh quite a bit and will probably not hold up very long.

Definitely don't go over a 3".  Bigger binders are just unwieldy and heavy.  If need be, consider multiple smaller binders if you need to accomodate more than a 3" will hold.

I agree 3” is the one you need. 

For a short time when I got back into collecting, I used a couple 3 inch binders. I didn’t like how heavy they were and how wide they opened up when you look through them.  I stopped using binders shortly after anyways.  But if I ever decide to binder some cards again,  I probably won’t go higher than 2 inches.