Most collectors want unstruck covers[unless they are rare].To save space and for safety sake,most collectors remove the matches ,unless they have printing or pictures on them.You should carefully remove the staple,then remove the matches.Take a group of same size books and press them between 2 strips of wood using clamps.After a few days they are done. They can be stored in albums using the plastic pages which come in various size openings to accomodate different size matchbooks.If you are interested you can EMail me and I can give you the address of a company that sells the pages very reasonably