what is an OBI for?

[Mirai Noah]

Originally Posted by Demure_Dusk

I keep all mine ^^ I think they're unique too myself

I keep all mine too.

[bluegie]

I keep mine too (well except LOVEppears and Duty cuz they're oversea version). Everytime I open a new cd, I will just take the cd out and put it into the cd case that I keep all the cds in. I will seal the cd with the plastic wrap and store it into a drawer that I put all my cds in.

Like others said the OBI slips serve some purposes. However if you dun care about it, it doesn't matter what the purposes are. If you treat the whole cd as a treasure, then you can keep it. If you love being perfect, you keep it. If you just want the music, dun let this small slip bothers you

[~K+]

Originally Posted by Eigakan

I have a question concerning obi's for overseas releases (Hong Kong and Taiwan), does the info in the obi come in japanese of chinese, I think it's obvious that it might come in chinese, but I don't really know (I'm more interested in knowing about HK obis).

Depends. HK OBIs usually lists the artist's name and the name of the album (and tracklist) in Japanese or whatever it's written in originally. And maybe some promoting stuff about feature tracks in Chinese.

But sometimes it's just in English/Japanese with no Chinese. It really depends on which artist's HK version you buy from.

Taiwan OBIs usually have the artist/band's name translated in Chinese, as well as the title of the album, even if it's originally in English, and that looks icky.

[hopeorpain]

I started keeping mine after knowing that jpop fans do this *_* a few months ago. I think they're cool to look at, and just for keepsake. I used to throw away everything though. And if you think about it, obi's ARE pretty useless, hehe.