Ready To Use Postal Cards

I am in a quandary on how to maintain several issues of the USPS ready to use postal cards. These are sets of cards, bound in booklets of 10-20 which were issued simultaneously with stamp issues.

An example would be 'Classic Movie Monster' Scott 3168-3172 & UX289a (UX285-UX289. The bound booklet has 4 of each type for a total of 20 cards. Scott catalogs the cards separately (2010) @ mint $1.60 and the booklet @ $32.00.

Intact the booklet garners value as 20 mint, separately the cards are values @ $1.60. I was thinking of separating the booklet, to insert in album pages showing a front and back (for a total of $16.00 scv). Is the market or are collectors more concerned with complete booklets or is it just a matter of choice.

I also have a mint booklet set of the Centennial Olympic Games cards issued in 1996 accompanied with a FDC bound booklet. This was (I think) the only postal card issue w/First Day cancells intact. After this issue collectors were required to break the booklet and send to the FDC city for First Day cancel. Same question. (I hate quandaries )

Some collectors keep the book of stamped postal cards together as they come. I collect my US stamps in Scott The National Postage Stamp Albums which issues postal card supplements mostly annually, they have a space of each of the postal cards on the pages-that is how I choose to collect them so I exploded to take out the singles I need to display on those pages. I am sure there are many other ways.

If you bought them as an investment then keep them intact. If you want to be able to display them you could us the Vario pages 2S which would hold 4 to a page. And if you want to sell them the monster market would be the place I would try and sell them.
Tom

I like the idea of the Vario pages. I can keep them intact, place in the sleeve and in the appropriate album location. I think I might 'explode' the Olympic set though as they are 20 individual types. Thanks for the feedback. (Not really think as an investment choice, just want the 'heirs' to have a basic value to work from.)

Just a reminder that the catalog value for the individual cards includes the cost to a dealer to separate the cards from the booklet.

Ideally, you want the individual cards, the booklet covers and an intact booklet.