Customer Reviews

Pioneer Jumbo Magnetic Page X-Pando Album, Navy Blue

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Please don't buy magnetic photo albums! I have one just like this, and my pictures are already starting to ruin. I found out that the acid and lignin in these albums will discolor and eventually eat through your photos. With all of the $$$ spent on cameras, film, and developing PLEASE invest in a safer way to store and display them!!! Try a Creative Memories album. I like them the best! They cost a little more, but a well worth it in the long run!

I have been using these particular photo albums for 12 years and am generally very pleased with how well they preserve photos. The major problem is that when more pages are added, the covers tear away due to added weight and stress. I have recently discovered that putting metal washers under the screw pegs substantially increases the durability of the album. They are not, I repeat, not infinitely expandable as has been implied by the manufacturer in the past, but they can be expanded safely with the additional reinforcement afforded by metal washers.

Otherwise, these are the best hobby-level albums I've used. I've tried a lot of albums.
Janet Arrowsmith-Lowe

The Pioneer X-pando jumbo magnetic photo album is more than a photoalbum. It's more like a scrape book. We put pictures, airline tickets, titles, foreign money, maps, tokens, cards, along with the pictures. This makes our album more fun to look at. For example for our trip to Washington DC we put parts of the map to the National Zoo along with the pictures we took there and for our honeymoon we put things like our airline tickets, some foreign money, and even a flat shell we found on the beach! The other benefit is they are expandable. you just add the refills (they say they are unlimited but really you can only add about maybe 4-5 refills per album). The albums may be a little more expensive but are worth it. We highly recommend them (we have 7 of them!)

These albums are fantastic in that I can put *ANYTHING* in them anyway I want, and not have to worry about "sticky stuff" ruining the items. The clear coverings are held in place by some sort of "static", not glue. I shoot mostly 4"x6" prints, and can fit 6 on a page when laying them all out horizontally. Sometimes I mix and match... putting 6x4s in with the 4x6s. The pages can even hold 8x10 images, and special photos you might get while on vacation spots. For example, when you ride a roller coaster and have your photo taken on the coaster... you can fit the photo and the cheezy books amusement parks usually put them in, within this album. Best of all, these albums conveniently fit in a bookcase like a regular book, and they come in an assortment of colors... I color code my albums, using a different color for each year. That is, 2000 was in green, 2001 in blue, 2002 in majenta, etc. Makes it easier. :-]

I have several of these albums and will continue to buy them. As I take panoramic photos it's good to have an album that can fit these and other photo sizes in them. And they come in a wide variety of colors so I can keep some organization to the albums for different photo subjects. With additional pages I can expand the books but that can also be a drawback. Too many pages make the books heavy.

This album is so cool. There is no limitation to where and how you put pictures on each page, and you also can put any size pictures in this. It gives you so much freedom, and realy do make your pictures look better. There is a glossy peelable film plate on each page, you peel that open, and put the pictures in. The pictures stick on the surface, now you put the film plate down. The only problem with this is sometimes the glossy film plate gets air bubbles in it, and you have to redo some procedures. But that doesn't really matter. Another problem is the album is huge, hard to take it around. Also, you are suppose to be able to add unlimited amount of new photo sheets into this thing.

The glossy covers have started gatting small white spots all over the pictures, and I have only used it for no more than 6 Month. BAD QUALITY, don't buy!!!

I have been using these photo albums for almost 20 years. The photos I put in them back in 1987 and 1988 look as good today as they did then. I don't know what other people mean who say they ruin their pictures -- perhaps they get their film developed at some cruddy service place which uses cheap chemicals and paper. I like the capacity -- any size photo up to 11 x 14; great room for making nice layouts with mixed sizes of pictures; room for extras and captions, even. I have put in newspaper articles, cartoons, and stickers -- anything relevant to the photo subject of the pages. I print all captions on cardstock on my computer, cut them out, and add them to the album pages. I even went back and re-did albums I put together as a teenager in the 1970s. I color code each album by year. What also is nice about this company is that, like Crayola crayons, they issue new colors every so often and "retire" others. I have albums ranging from the basic burgandy, navy, green, brown, and white. I also have teal, mauve, turquoise, and light blue. I agree that the cover holes around the posts do get warn; I'll look into the washer trick. I've been using strips of duct tape inside the little cardboard fold over portion (so it isn't visible). Long live Pioneer albums!

excellent photo album! It's more like a scrape book than a photo album. you can put panoramic photo's, larger photo's, titles of events (ex. our trip to Washington DC), souviners (we put some foreign money from our vacation, maps of museums, and airline tickets, etc). They make your photo's more fun to look at because you can add so many other things to your pictures.

We had lotz of odd sized photos mainly from Picture People. It was really hard to find photo book for those.

Pioneer Jumbo Magnetic Page X-Pando Album, is a great way to store and save the photos. It makes photos look good too.