What albums do you use?

Phil,

I am with Alyn on this. Are the Steiner pages perfect, no but they are as comprehensive as a specialty album, if not more so. I like to use them as they can be printed as needed, and fit nicely into sheet protectors so you don't have to use mounts to keep stamps from "mating" when facing each other. I have made custom pages in power point, but it takes some time to design the layout and then execute it. what I have found is the albums with the little pictures are either expensive, or a lot of stamps are left out. Actually if you were to fill all the spaces with the stamps with a picture you would have a nice collection. That's one of the neat things about stamp collecting, you are free to collect what and how you want, there are no "rules" as to what a collection must contain.

Mike

I use the Harris WW albums but for some of the countries that I am concentrating heavy on (Australia, Canada, and Great Britain so far) I will use the pages from stampalbums.com.  My problem with these albums is that they are very heavy and I have to have someone around to bring them to my workstation. I also stopped updating these albums in 1995 when I took a break from collecting.

Wow, that's pretty cool.

What kind of paper are ya'll using? I said I had used some nice card stock (65 pound) and it came out nice, but I must admit, it's probably over-kill for a big album.
I did find this paper on Amazon from Hammermil:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010T5NF2/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
It's only 32 pound.
I did have an idea. All this time I've been worried about what country to print. The fact that there are several hundred pages for many countries wasn't helping matters. And it meant I'd be concentrating on one country  at a time while having stamps for 70 other countries still sitting in boxes.
So why don't I just make my own Statesman or Ambassador Album? I could just print up the pages I need and start putting them in a big 2 or 3 inch binder and go from there. It would at least get all my stamps moved into some system.
I really wanted to be able to edit the album pages like I want (add pics of flags and maps and just go all crazy with them) but the more I think about that, that just isn't going to happen.