Card binders and 9-pocket pages are devices used to protect
trading card
A trading card (or collectible card) is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing (fictional or real) and a short description of the picture, along with other ...
s or
game cards (such as
collectible card games) from damage and to store them.
Card binders typically use a
3-ring binder
Ring binders (loose leaf binders, looseleaf binders, or sometimes called files in Britain) are large folders that contain file folders or hole punched papers. These binders come in various sizes and can accommodate an array of paper sizes. The ...
or a D-ring binder.
9-pocket page
A 9-pocket page, also called a 9-card page or a 9-card sleeve, is a 3x3 plastic page that holds 3 cards per row and per column. Other variations of this type of card pocket page exists. Additionally, some collectors prefer not to put more than one card in a pocket, as opposed to putting all duplicates in the same pocket (called a "double up"), or putting cards in backwards to be displayed on the reverse side of the page.
See also
*
Card sleeve
Plastic card sleeves are used to protect trading cards, game cards, and collectible card game cards from wear and tear. The sleeves are a sheath of plastic into which a card is inserted.
Varieties
A wide variety of protective devices have been ...
*
Singles, individual collectible cards
References
Card game terminology
Collectible card games
Trading cards
{{CCG-game-stub