Albums carefully designed and laid out to provide spacesfor the maximum number of stamps the new or casualcollector is likely to obtain. These albums vary in sizeaccording to the number of stamps they can hold and,of course, vary in price in accordance with their com-pleteness.
3. Unabridged albums which provide spaces for all stampsof a single country, group of countries, or kind ofstamp. Such albums are usually printed on one sideof the page and are loose-leaf. They are expensive andoften bulky, occasionally requiring several volumes totake care of a single group of stamps. They are thealbums you will grow up to when you start to specialize.