I can't speak to the Scott e-publications, because I haven't used those in several years (but I did find the format at that time awkward and sometimes hard to use). Hopefully someone else can weigh in on that in an informed way.
But I can provide links to the person I'm familiar with who breaks down and sells individual Scott catalog countries. (It's the genuine pages, not copies.)
Here is their website:
https://www.scottcataloguepages.com/
and here are their listings on eBay:
http://www.ebaystores.com/stampsfrommetoyou/
I've bought from them in the past.
Although some people say the best prices are on their website, I have found that sometimes, once shipping is added in, eBay was less expensive. So, in my opinion, you'd need to check both sites and determine what the best purchase strategy would be.
(Having said that, I haven't purchased from them in perhaps 3+ years, so maybe their synchronization between the sites is tighter than it was back then, so those pricing differences may not be as pronounced anymore. I'm not sure. Just trying to give you a fuller picture.)
-- another Dave
They're just as expensive as the paper versions, and I found them literally useless, to the point that I haven't even bothered to try to use them for five years or so.
They're slow, the images are low-res (no surprise there), the interface is less than intuitive, and if they're searchable, I never figured out how to search them. Most searches I tried failed to find anything, even country names. I used mine on my iPad 2, which means the fonts and images are smaller than in the paper version. I believe that the catalogues are read-only PDFs.
Overall, I think it's easier to use the standard paper catalogue than the e-version. Assuming you have an iPad-type device, the e-versions might be somewhat useful at club meetings and stamp shows. If you want easy-to-transport, up-to-date information for a few smaller countries, or one or two larger countries, the sets of Scott pages for individual countries, sold by CHIROKMD, could be the e-catalogue killer.
Bob
You can "order" a sample online catalog at no cost at https://www.scottonline.com/
The catalog is searchable and results list as shown below:
Image quality is about the same as it would be when enlarging images from a pdf:
It appears that you can also add notes to items that you select.
I can't comment on speed of viewing because the sample is only thirteen pages.
What format do they use (e.g.PDF)?
Are they word-searchable?
If so, I'm thinking it might be interesting to use them to do some specific searches for reference purposes (e.g. what are the most common colors? how many stamps of a given country have a CV of $1+, etc).
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My libraries (London Ontario Canada) all have hard copies of the Scotts catalogs, but none have the e-versions. I've requested these to be purchased (leased?) for the past couple years, but so far no luck. Does anyone have access to them through your local library system?
I am quite happy to use the hard copies for general identification/pricing info, but I'm occasionally driven (such is my nature) to want to do research on topics of interest and wondered if the e-copies would facilitate this.
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Someone previously mentioned a site where you could (hopefully legally) purchase single-country Scotts listings. There are a few German-Occupation related areas (usually BOB) I have photocopied in past, but I hate to possibly crack the spine of any book in doing so. An alternative might be useful.
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Thanks, Dave.
re: A question (if you happen to own any Scotts e-Catalogs) and a few other catalog questions
I can't speak to the Scott e-publications, because I haven't used those in several years (but I did find the format at that time awkward and sometimes hard to use). Hopefully someone else can weigh in on that in an informed way.
But I can provide links to the person I'm familiar with who breaks down and sells individual Scott catalog countries. (It's the genuine pages, not copies.)
Here is their website:
https://www.scottcataloguepages.com/
and here are their listings on eBay:
http://www.ebaystores.com/stampsfrommetoyou/
I've bought from them in the past.
Although some people say the best prices are on their website, I have found that sometimes, once shipping is added in, eBay was less expensive. So, in my opinion, you'd need to check both sites and determine what the best purchase strategy would be.
(Having said that, I haven't purchased from them in perhaps 3+ years, so maybe their synchronization between the sites is tighter than it was back then, so those pricing differences may not be as pronounced anymore. I'm not sure. Just trying to give you a fuller picture.)
-- another Dave
re: A question (if you happen to own any Scotts e-Catalogs) and a few other catalog questions
They're just as expensive as the paper versions, and I found them literally useless, to the point that I haven't even bothered to try to use them for five years or so.
They're slow, the images are low-res (no surprise there), the interface is less than intuitive, and if they're searchable, I never figured out how to search them. Most searches I tried failed to find anything, even country names. I used mine on my iPad 2, which means the fonts and images are smaller than in the paper version. I believe that the catalogues are read-only PDFs.
Overall, I think it's easier to use the standard paper catalogue than the e-version. Assuming you have an iPad-type device, the e-versions might be somewhat useful at club meetings and stamp shows. If you want easy-to-transport, up-to-date information for a few smaller countries, or one or two larger countries, the sets of Scott pages for individual countries, sold by CHIROKMD, could be the e-catalogue killer.
Bob
re: A question (if you happen to own any Scotts e-Catalogs) and a few other catalog questions
You can "order" a sample online catalog at no cost at https://www.scottonline.com/
The catalog is searchable and results list as shown below:
Image quality is about the same as it would be when enlarging images from a pdf:
It appears that you can also add notes to items that you select.
I can't comment on speed of viewing because the sample is only thirteen pages.