Hi LG,
I don't think I differ from a lot of Worldwide collectors here, (example : Spain_1850) and Floortrader who possibly has heaps more than I.
I just managed to scan all my stuff, and have it readily available.
I started buying boxes of "junk" at a tiny stamp club / auction room , behind a washing machine repair shop, in Victoria Park, Western Australia.
I would buy "suitcases" of mixed stamps and carton lots, (That's all I could afford at the time)
After that (and Stanley Gibbons Catalogues) I nearly gave up..............
Then, in a burst of light, I discovered Steiner Pages, and the Amos Scott catalogue, I have never looked back.
All my jumbled hodge podge began to fall into low entropy.
It may all look good, but I wouldn't recommend WW collecting, it tends to consume one (No time to get a life)

Kudos to all members of Stamp Forums, they do inspire, all in their own way. That's why we congregate here.