The Scott Catalog For Ipad Is Out!

And people question the need to jailbreak your device. It is almost essential to get the best from it.

If I couldn't jailbreak, I'd be on Android.

(Which I am for my phone)

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I can tolerate (barely) the advertisements in the printed catalog, but it looks like the iPad version advertisements appear as a footer on every page.

In my opinion, that's unacceptable -- especially when the viewing area has already been reduced from 8.5 x 11 printed to the 10" iPad.

Expect to see a LOT of negative feedback in the iTunes store.

Kirk

P.S. Can you print?

I haven't found a way to print, but I haven't tried to print from my iPad at all. There's nothing in the help system to indicates you can print.

Printing is a bit of an ordeal on 1st Generation iPads.
It got easier with the iPad2

http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/airprint.html

KirkS

By the way, the iPad3 will be announced next week. But all I'm seeing so far that's new is 4G support and a brighter screen. I prefer the Wi-Fi only version, so I don't care about 4G and giving another $30 per month to Verizon. The brighter screen might be nice, but the other shoe will drop and we'll learn that batter life will be significantly reduced. So for now, I'll stick with my 1st Generation device.

I wonder if by releasing it as an app, they are controlling when it can be used. For instance when the new catalogs come out are they going to discontinue the 2012's, in essence making it a one year lease? So will you have to pay 29.99 per year? Or is it a one time fee?

Just curious.

From what I saw you BUY the catalogs. Once you own them, they are on your device. Heck, the catalogs are just PDF files on the device. You have the option to archive them back to Scott's servers if you need the space on your phone/iPad. But it looks like once you own them, you have access to them until you choose to delete them.

I've just purchased the Scott iPad app. Pretty impressive, but I've barely begun looking at it.

About the ads: Once you've download the catalogue in part or in whole, if you turn off WiFi the ads won't show up. (I agree, they're a pain.)

Searching has me baffled. I tried what an earlier poster said (went back to the home page, and just searched for Great Britain without result. Then I went to the Great Britain subsection and tried to find stamps. No luck. Anyone know what, if anything, I'm doing wrong? It's a strange search function...

Bob

Do tell. Does that mean that one could extract the PDF from the wrapper? I've purchased the U.S. Specialized Part 2 in the app, and while I could take low-res screenshots of all the pages in order to also view them on my PC/laptop, being able to access the core PDF would be even better.

Having the catalog available on the iPad is better than nothing, but I need to access the material on multiple devices...

I pulled the PDfs out, but they are password protected, and the brute force cracking tool I am applying to the PDF files just told me it will take 147 DAYS to try and figure out the password, so it's impractical to do so.

I was really only trying to hack into them, so I could stick them in GoodReader and annotate them. Plus the searching is pretty bad at this point. I would rather just use the search tool in GoodReader or iBooks. Since it's impractical to wait 147 days, I'm hoping a new version of the app comes out with better searching.

Searching can be done from the home screen, but only by exact country name and Scott cat. number. Look for the magnifying glass in the upper right corner. As someone else said, the search engine will then take you to P.1 of the appropriate sub-section. Then just typing in the catalogue number will take you to the appropriate page. It's klunky, but it works as long as you know the Scott number. It needs to be more sophisticated.

People have complained about cost. The complete iPad Classic catalogue is US $89.97. The same dead-tree catalogue is $149.95 here in Vancouver. (Exchange rate is somewhere around par, I believe.) The iPad catalogue may consist of just wisps of electrons creating binary numbers, but the cost of developing such apps is huge. I heard somewhere that our economy is based on profit, and I would prefer that all philatelic entrepreneurs remain profitable.

I took my iPad to my stamp club meeting last night. Even the Luddites were impressed.

Bob

P.S. Scott is very responsive. I'd suggest taking complaints and suggestions directly to them.

No doubt it is the wave of the future.

There is so much information in the Classic Specialized 1840-1940 Scott catalogue, that curling up with the iPad, and browsing would be fun too.

But,right now for me, the book version is superior, as I maintain my inventory (by marking) in the catalogue.

No way to do that with the iPad.

Also, the 132 dpi resolution for the iPad- to keep the files small according to Scott- (The book version has 300 dpi) results in an enlarged stamp image not providing good detail for close examination.

Perhaps with the new resolution of the iPad 3 (233 DPI, I believe), we'll get a higher resolution catalog next time.

It's not the resolution of the iPad is the resolution of the images. Better resolution means larger files and more storage. As Jkjblue states, zooming in does not help, which means Scott purposely included low-resolution images. The new iPad would not render the images any better...

Correct. But the higher resolution would allow Amos to offer higher resolution images and the Pad would be able to advantage of it.