I much prefer raw and I just keep them in stacks. Never been a huge fan of pages. I like picking up a stack of cards and thumbing thru them like I did when I was a kid and I like the feel of cards.
That said, probably 1/4 to 1/3 of my monster is graded. That's how they were purchased - I've never sent a card in to be graded.
I haven't busted the graded cards out because I have big enough stacks to keep my thumbs happy and it's probably easier to re-sell a graded card (maybe?) in the event I decide to upgrade.
One of these days I can see myself cracking all the slabs, then putting all the cards in tobacco sized holders so I can maintain thumbability and still offer a bit of protection for days when I have more than two thumbs.
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