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how do you handle your clean records?

Ok, I'm sitting here in my listening room cleaning some records. I received a spin clean for Fathers day. I thought my records have been kept clean and so far I can tell that I only thought they were clean. After cleaning and drying a record, placing it in a new sleeve and putting back in my record storage I had a thought. I grabbed one to play. Here is where I had my issue. How do you remove the clean record without touching it and leaving finger marks on the edge? Should I get some soft white cotton gloves to handle the records? I don't have any priceless records but I want to keep them all as nice as I can. So my question is "How do you handle your clean records"?
Thanks for the input
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effischer
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+1 cleeds.  That's the method I've been using for 40+ years and it hasn't failed yet.  Vinyl records are pretty resilient, too.  The only time I've ever damaged a record surface was a vertical abrasion against a sandstone hearth when I was careless sliding the dust jacket into the sleeve.  Plain stupid on my part; ended up buying 2 new copies.  The first wasn't as good as the one I'd damaged, but the second was better. Silver linings!

Happy listening!
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