Catalogues on CD
 

These have begun to appear in recent years and I am wondering what
members think of them. For myself, I think they should be searchable,
printable (with colour images), navigable (easy to look up a given
stamp) and browsable. What features do YOU consider essential or
desirable?

The Pipex account is dead. so to contact me direct use:


Douglas

"Douglas Myall" wrote in message
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These have begun to appear in recent years and I am wondering what
members think of them. For myself, I think they should be searchable,
printable (with colour images), navigable (easy to look up a given
stamp) and browsable. What features do YOU consider essential or
desirable?

The Pipex account is dead. so to contact me direct use:


Douglas

Less expensive.

For example Zumstein costs 3 to 4 times more on CD than printed. I
understand that on CD there are eventually more data and that they are
eventually easier accessible, but their production is less expensive than of
the printed versions.

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I can only speak of the Scotts cats, and the features you mention are
sound. The one thing I do not like about them is the lack of
portability, unless one has a laptop. If all your work is done at home
and you don't expect to need portability, then they are a viable option.
After looking at the Scott US Specialized, I opted to stick with
paper, even if my old ones are B&W, not color.
John

Douglas Myall wrote:

These have begun to appear in recent years and I am wondering what
members think of them. For myself, I think they should be searchable,
printable (with colour images), navigable (easy to look up a given
stamp) and browsable. What features do YOU consider essential or
desirable?

The Pipex account is dead. so to contact me direct use:


Douglas

I have Scott's, Yvert and a couple of others,
and I hardly use them.
I still prefer hard copy for cataloguing.
I find them a little irritating to navigate, the scans borderline.
They seem to be caught between a rock and a hard place
for the production of scans, and the protection of copying them.
I like my scans at least 400dpi.

I still revert to my own limited e-album, where the early scans are poor,
but I also catalogue and build, stories and legends behind the issues
catalogued with Gibbons numbers.
When I pass on, someone will have a good read perhaps :)



"Douglas Myall" wrote in message ...
| These have begun to appear in recent years and I am wondering what
| members think of them. For myself, I think they should be searchable,
| printable (with colour images), navigable (easy to look up a given
| stamp) and browsable. What features do YOU consider essential or
| desirable?
|
| The Pipex account is dead. so to contact me direct use:
|
|
| Douglas
|

"Douglas Myall" wrote:

These have begun to appear in recent years and I am wondering what
members think of them. For myself, I think they should be searchable,
printable (with colour images), navigable (easy to look up a given
stamp) and browsable. What features do YOU consider essential or
desirable?

The Pipex account is dead. so to contact me direct use:


Douglas

When I am searching for stamps commemorating Tsiolkovsky, only a CD-ROM will do. But when I am at
the table going through a pile of stamps, I want my old paper copy.

I like Scott's on CD, but it's time they discovered DVD media and cut down on the number of disks.
It reminds me of the olden days - running software off multiple 5¼" DDs.

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Douglas Myall wrote:
These have begun to appear in recent years and I am wondering what
members think of them. For myself, I think they should be searchable,
printable (with colour images), navigable (easy to look up a given
stamp) and browsable. What features do YOU consider essential or
desirable?

The Pipex account is dead. so to contact me direct use:


Douglas

Hi Douglas,

I know some people that have used the CD's and for a few countries they
say it works great. However, if you are cataloging a lot of stamps that
involves multiple countries the CD's are not very efficient. You have
to keep mounting and dis-mounting a CD for the next volume. The people
I know say that the search is good, but not excellent. One reson being
that Scott in a lot of cases, especially for flora and fauna,
translates a Latin description to English and the search does not work.


A major complaint is that the CD's cost as much as the hard copy, so
the hard copy is purchased. I do some part time work for a stamp dealer
and we have found that customer's who buy the CD's eventually buy the
hard copy. In general, people prefer to buy a hard copy, especially if
they are World-Wide collectors and since the price is the same.

In another reply, there is mention of Scott putting the catalogs on DVD
and thus reducing the number of CD's to one. Truthfully, I do not think
that will ever happen, Scott likes to make money. The ideal situation
will be Scott breaking the catalogs into geographic areas, as Stanley
Gibbons, Yvert and others do. I have contacted Scott about doing this
and their statement is that there are too many World-Wide collectors
and dealers that need the full set. I think it is a ridiculous reason.
If broken into areas you still have the option to buy a full set. I am
sure that the catalogs will eventually go to 7 volumes instead of the 6
now published. Regarding color, I believe I read somewhere that the
2006 catalogs will be in color.

Jerry Bodoff

wrote in message
ups.com...
In another reply, there is mention of Scott putting the catalogs on DVD
and thus reducing the number of CD's to one. Truthfully, I do not think
that will ever happen, Scott likes to make money. The ideal situation
will be Scott breaking the catalogs into geographic areas, as Stanley
Gibbons, Yvert and others do. I have contacted Scott about doing this
and their statement is that there are too many World-Wide collectors
and dealers that need the full set. I think it is a ridiculous reason.
If broken into areas you still have the option to buy a full set. I am
sure that the catalogs will eventually go to 7 volumes instead of the 6
now published. Regarding color, I believe I read somewhere that the
2006 catalogs will be in color.

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Once more collectors own DVD readers rather than CD readers Scott will
gladly add DVD's to the electronic catalogs and make even more money.

Bill

For those looking for DVD, EzStamp has been on DVD for the past year
with over 115,000 color images and over 118 databases available.
Powerful searches built in so can be used as an inventory or
as a digital catalog.

regards
Marios

Bill Sharpe wrote:

wrote in message
ups.com...
In another reply, there is mention of Scott putting the catalogs on DVD
and thus reducing the number of CD's to one. Truthfully, I do not think
that will ever happen, Scott likes to make money. The ideal situation
will be Scott breaking the catalogs into geographic areas, as Stanley
Gibbons, Yvert and others do. I have contacted Scott about doing this
and their statement is that there are too many World-Wide collectors
and dealers that need the full set. I think it is a ridiculous reason.
If broken into areas you still have the option to buy a full set. I am
sure that the catalogs will eventually go to 7 volumes instead of the 6
now published. Regarding color, I believe I read somewhere that the
2006 catalogs will be in color.

---------
Once more collectors own DVD readers rather than CD readers Scott will
gladly add DVD's to the electronic catalogs and make even more money.

Bill

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Bill Sharpe wrote:
wrote in message
ups.com...
In another reply, there is mention of Scott putting the catalogs on DVD
and thus reducing the number of CD's to one. Truthfully, I do not think
that will ever happen, Scott likes to make money. The ideal situation
will be Scott breaking the catalogs into geographic areas, as Stanley
Gibbons, Yvert and others do. I have contacted Scott about doing this
and their statement is that there are too many World-Wide collectors
and dealers that need the full set. I think it is a ridiculous reason.
If broken into areas you still have the option to buy a full set. I am
sure that the catalogs will eventually go to 7 volumes instead of the 6
now published. Regarding color, I believe I read somewhere that the
2006 catalogs will be in color.

---------
Once more collectors own DVD readers rather than CD readers Scott will
gladly add DVD's to the electronic catalogs and make even more money.

Being that DVD's are standard now with any newer PC and the fact that a
CD holds ±700mb and a DVD holds 4.7gb, almost 7 times as much, it makes
sense they will do so very soon. A full set of Scotts on CD is a LOT of
CD's!
John

Rodney wrote :


I have Scott's, Yvert and a couple of others,
and I hardly use them.
I still prefer hard copy for cataloguing.
I find them a little irritating to navigate, the scans borderline.
They seem to be caught between a rock and a hard place
for the production of scans, and the protection of copying them.
I like my scans at least 400dpi.
.............



Rod,

I have Scott for Australia

Yvert, Cérès and Dallay/Philatelix for France
Dallay/Philatelix for Monaco, Andorras (Fr & Spanish) and French
Antarctic Territories.

Like you, Rodney, I prefer hard copy catalogs for cataloguing.

But I do use the CDs extensively to search for stamps, knowing only some
words written on the stamp, or the face value, or the designer /engraver
of the stamp.
Scott, Cérès and above all Yvert have *very* limited search
capabilities, while Philatelix is a very nicely designed and user
friendly sofware.

Above that, scans in Philatelix are at a very high definition (~ 600
dpi)

May be, one day, they will issue a Philatelix for Australia ???
;-)

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All the best,
Pierre Courtiade
courtiade at free dot fr