Comments on: A review of Stamp Albums Web

By: Keijo

Keijo — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:18:10 +0000

@Jorma…Regular copying paper (80g/m2) is way too thin for the purpose. As you add stamps to pages, they will begin to warp and bulge as when You add them to binder. So called heavy paper (160g/m2 if using hinges, 200g/m2 if using mounts) is much better.

The paper should be also archival quality (both acid and lignin free) if you are interested of long time storage. Regular copying/office paper can begin to have certain side effects in 20-30 years time.

One more advice… Head out to local book or crafts store, and try out different papers available physically. Once you find that “special paper”, buy all you need in one go and ask for bulk discount. It should save You quite a few Euros.

By: Jorma

Jorma — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:31:34 +0000

I also use stampalbums pages but I´m wondering what kind of paper is good to use? Normal copying paper? And when I´m concerning only classic era, it´s means about 6,500 pages with approx. 81,000 stamps. Then I use 4-ring binders which are easy to hole with normal puncher. Not very expensive IMO.

By: neil McLaughlin - New Zealand

neil McLaughlin - New Zealand — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:14:03 +0000

Hi, I am a great fan of the album pages website. I have been using it for several years – but need to renew as let sub lapse. i cam back to stamp collecting in retirement and have accumulated a ton of collections and albums from family and friends as well as bulk auctions. I now pick off a country and spend several months going through my accumulations to fill the gaps – then search auction sites for missing ones – great time waster. I now have a large number of single country extensive collections – pick them by Countries I visit or like andf go from there – Best product I have ever found and cost effective

By: Rick Young

Rick Young — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:15:23 +0000

“If something should be criticized about the layout, it is the excessive use of white space on some pages.”

This is a criticism of mine, too, Keijo:

“The catch is that the pages are very heavily based on Scott catalogues. And Scott is very likely the worst possible source for a European worldwide collector like me. It can lack complete issues/sets and details listed on Michel, Stanley Gibbons and Yvert (the most common stamp catalogues used outside US).”

And this criticism I was completely unaware of, as I use Scott catalogs even for my European countries.

As I mentioned within another thread, I use 67 lb. cover stock with a high quality ink jet paper (soon to be replaced by a laser printer). I also simply put the pages in magazine holders so I don’t have to punch holes and don’t have the extra weight on my shelves of binders.

I am so glad I discovered your blog – I am learning a lot and it is fun to be in contact with others with interests in stamp collecting.

Thanks!

By: Gafrad

Gafrad — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:22:47 +0000

I started a re-organization of my collection a few years back and had to go through all the angst of trying to decide what to do. I ended up with dovetailing systems but chose Steiner’s pages for small countries and for a few specialized countries. I went with it because the Pagemaker files were so easy to convert to whatever I thought was important to me. I could add data, remove it, change fonts, move stamps around, add or subtract. It takes time but it made a system personalized to me. When Bill quit displaying the Pagemaker pages, I was livid. The PDF pages are just not the same thing. I had been maintaining an annual subscription for ongoing updates so I complained bitterly to Bill. He never gave me a good reason why he quit but he did say he was quite prepared to send me all the available pages in Pagemaker on a CD if I asked for them. Not a perfect solution but it solved my problem. However, now I no longer maintain a subscription as he offers no new issues in Pagemaker.