Yup, I recently accidentally bought a 4 pocket Legion Dragonhide binder… I wanted to get a 9 pocket one (dumb me didn’t thoroughly read the listing lol) but I have to say, Legion makes some top-notch binders. I assume their 9 pocket versions are just as good. The thing is very solid, doesn’t bend as much Ultra Pro Pro-Binders and the quality overall is pretty good. I liked it even more than I thought I would.
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+1 to this. I personally wouldn’t go any other way. It also eliminates the ring turning issue.
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Ultra-Pro "Pro-Binder are cool and all, but I still feel safer with toploader binder, because those Ultra-Pro Pro-Binder have that wierd bending feeling of the cards closest to middle when turning dem pages.
I had cards that were in my toploader binder for a year and they got the gem mint 10’s 
They basically preserve them like a PSA Graded case.
It’s a matter of aesthetics vs practicality IMO, sure a toploader binder will protect your cards better but 9 page card binders are far more pleasing to the eye. As long as you’re careful with it, your cards are very unlikely to sustain damage even in a regular binder. There is more than enough space between the actual card slots and the binding for ultra-pros anyway to prevent bending of cards.
I thought the same until I organised my cards in such a way that it looks nice. For example, my 6 Fieldworker cards all now sit neatly on one page, and my 6 Japanese exclusives do, too.
You can make it work.
Not to mention, its as you say a matter of asthetics vs practicality of keeping one’s cards safe.
Depends on what ya do with ya toploader binder for aesthetically pleasements. You can make it look awesome if you get colored toploaders, and then you get awesome art deck protectors for the cards, but I never use the awesome art stuff because I dont want that inc imprinting on my awesome cards brah. I find that you still have to be a little more careful with the Ultra pro - pro binders too, which bugs me, but thats just my opinion. This is coming from the guy has such bad OCD he got rid of his charizard Gem Mint 10 because He wanted a minter one =D
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Nice choice.
It all depends on how many cards ur storing too.
I use standard hard cover 3 ring binders that set me back around $8 a pop and buy boxes of 100 9 pocket pages for sets at around $40-50 a box.
The downside is I have to be EXTREMELY paranoid when moving them but havn’t had ANY damage yet. I hate to think how much it would cost just to store my cards in pro binders when they barely hold a complete set. To compensate however I do keep anything really valuable in toploaders in team bags and have toyed with the idea o just doing this with all of my ultra rare cards.
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I use these aswell for storing foils and such. I currently have 7 of them. 
This right here! This is always my thought when considering storing everything I have in sets. I would be looking at 1k just for binders alone. With that said, the binders are very nice.
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Yep! I rather spend $300 on binders and $700 on cards. Call me crazy!!
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And that is your choice mate. How about I just spend what I want on the binders I prefer?
I honestly feel like the 9 pocket binders have more of a chance of damaging cards than the 4 pocket version, which is why I asked if anyone else was using them.
To each their own. Every situation has its answer. If a particular answer helps someone, good.
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This I certainly agree with.
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I’ve been using this exact same binder for my collection since 2013, 0 issues so far. Highly recommended.