On Sunday, July 1, 2012 11:51:41 AM UTC-4, gogu wrote:
Hi all!
.. . .
I'm using for years Paul Dembowski's (Liberty Street Software) "CoinManage"
program for my coin collection but I'm not entirely happy with it so I'm a
bit reluctant in using their stamps' software (StampManage)...
So what would you think is the best software to keep track of your
collection?...

If you are just starting to create an electronic inventory of your collection, you might want to use any spreadsheet program and record only the items with a value over some fixed amount. (For most of the collectors I know well, either $5 or $10 would be a good minimum value to justify including an item in the inventory.) If you have a collection with tens of thousands of items, maintaining a inventory of all items would, for me, be time spent "working" rather than "having fun."

"Value": if one aim of the inventory is to be able to make a quick estimate of sale value to a dealer, be sure to discount the value of any damaged items--torn, scuffed, thin, badly off center, heavily canceled, etc. Two dealers who helped me evaluate a friend's collection about three years ago suggested discounting any such damaged material as being, at best, 10% of catalog price.

Stan