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Are Scrapbooks Now Obsolete?

With all the rapid growth in digital photography and growth of online photo registry and printing firms, many think that the standard leather photo album is starting to become obsolete.

The web is a superb way to easily share your family photos, nevertheless the delight of experiencing a gallery of baby photographs or perhaps your latest African safari on a monitor will wear a bit thin after a while. Although you can buy photos through the online photo registry, many simply settle for the joys of looking at the picture online but don’t often make any purchase.

Many will reason that photos or digital videos kept on-line are forever at your disposal and that it is quite easy to access the pictures or video clips once again on Flickr or YouTube or one of the other business photo media sites. Perhaps, this is correct, but how many persons really go online after a couple of weeks to take another look at family photographs which have been distributed by e-mail?

Stationery store owners and leather specialty stores are convinced that the sales of leather photo albums is beginning to demonstrate indications of growing after many years of sliding sales. According to some in the business, it would appear that customers are discovering that showing photographs in photo albums is more handy and personal than carrying out a picture search on some photo registry.

The intimacy of sitting on a couch and thumbing through the scrapbook with your children or grandchildren appears a good deal more personal than browsing through images on your monitor. Certainly, displaying wedding photos in a bound leather picture album is far more effective than storing them online.

In addition, to catalogue and display photos, a loose-leaf scrapbook is often used for commercial marketing. Real-estate brokers claim that photo albums tend to be more useful to display properties for sale and many financial planners and insurance agents use albums to display information rather than use the business website.

Without a doubt, a loose-leaf or hardbound leather photo album appears to restore the interpersonal relationship in sharing family reminiscences and may also be used for business marketing.

Richard May is the owner of Therese Saint Clair, a stationery store located in Greenwich, CT. He writes frequently about the many uses of leather photo albums and leather scrapbooks.

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