Are Magnetic Pages Photo Albums OK?

I can get them pretty cheaply ($4) and have thought about using them for covers. I understand that they are bad for stamps, but am thinking they might be OK for relatively low value covers.
Any thoughts?

You are very wise to ask.
They are absolutely under no circumstances to be used.
Leaves a grid of brown gum lines on anything.
A Terrible invention.


Here is one I prepared earlier

Covers can be an awkward so and so, to store,
It's hard to beat the old tried and true....

Place each cover in an archival plastic sleeve ($14 per 1000)
and plop in a shoebox.
They are easy to view and flip through for viewing.

Thank You! What I have will be used for recipes clipped from newspapers, even photos are too good to be used in them, especially old family photos, I'm thinking.

Indeed Butterfly,
having the prescence to ask, may have saved
you some family heirlooms.
Once your recipes have been in them for a while
you will not be able to shift them,
the gum will adhere to the paper very strongly.

I would strongly discourage use of these "magnetic" pages for ANYTHING!

Stamps and covers NEVER!

Photos (which these pages are supposedly designed for) will adhere to the pages over time so tight that you can only CUT them out of the album (and if there are photos on the reverse side, you've lost them!)

Even for recipes, I would be reluctant to use them, as the pages have a tendency to yellow and will bleed though paper such as newsprint.

It's so much easier to scan and save material to the computer than to try any of these "cheap" storage solutions. If you absolutely must use an album of some sort, buy the archival safe, 100% acid-free, page protector type of albums. They may be more expensive, but they will save your heirlooms for future generations and not risk having them wind up in the trash.

Here's one example of a "good" storage solution (available at most arts and crafts stores):