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Ecatalogue Long Overdue

 
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Posted 03/04/2018   12:04 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add sleepy to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I've been using the Scott Specialized United States Catalog and find it overly large, heavy and clumsy. With the album, printer, and tools on my table, it gets in the way.
Why are we using this paper monstrosity when we could simply use an on-line version ?
I read newspapers on-line, see ebooks in my library, and watch kids play games on-line, but we're still using the paper catalog.
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Posted 03/04/2018   12:14 pm  Show Profile Check GeoffHa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GeoffHa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Both Yvert and Michel produce catalogues of this kind. An annual subscription to the full range of Yvert's catalogues is around €100? Gibbons, I think, does something similar with its simplified Stamps of the World catalogue.
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Posted 03/04/2018   1:32 pm  Show Profile Check revenuecollector's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add revenuecollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There is an online version of the Scott catalogs, however the interface is clumsy and Amos Media STILL insists upon pricing it using the old school per-volume model. There is no annual subscription. You can buy SOME countries ala carte though. However, if you collect a country that is not one of the ones that they offer individually, your only option is to purchase the entire volume.

Beyond stupid.

http://scottonline.com

What I've done instead for undividual countries is to purchase individual country printed sections from https://scottcataloguepages.com/ (he buys Scott catalogues and breaks them down and resells the individual countries... a service that had Amos Media any sense they would offer themselves) and then scan those in to PDFs and OCR them.
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There is also the free US Stamp PopUp Tool on Stamp Smarter, it is as good as any eCatalog.
http://www.stampsmarter.com/feature...eatures.html
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