The Depot: Tile Storage Hints
"Our group always has trouble finding enough table space to lay out all of the tiles for the games (we play 1830 and 1835 frequently), plus we have one player who's eyesight is really bad, so he has a hard time looking over all of the tiles to decide which one to play. Our group also plays Magic and some other CCG's, and it occurred to me some time ago that the card pages that people use store and display their cards would be great for storing the tiles - they're transparent, with pockets for the cards, if you haven't seen them. The biggest problem is that the pockets are too deep for tiles - it's too much trouble to get the tiles back out once they're in there. Last weekend, I was in WalMart, and I noticed that on a display for those milk-cap Pog thingies they also have collector's pages with little pog-sized individual pockets. I picked one page up, and when I got home I checked and found out that my estimation was correct, and tiles fit perfectly in the little pockets, with just a little point sticking out of the top to make extraction very easy. I stopped back at the store and spent about 1/2 an hour sorting all of my tiles into pages. They're easy to lay out, fit in the box fine,and don't take up much table space when playing."
I have tried Wade's suggestion and have found it most satisfactory. As the Pog craze dies out, you may have to turn to another ready-made solution for tile storage and viewing: slide pages. Designed to hold a large number of slides in a single transparent page, they are almost as good as the Pog pages, and have the added virtue of not being likely to vanish any time soon...
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