I've been collecting about as long as the Club has been around. I used to do color photocopies of the pages in my collection and bring them along to chip shows. When that became too much of a bother, I got an IPad (lowest memory size available) and began scanning the pages once a year before the Club Convention. There is plenty of memory for several thousand chips and I found the iPad display to be a good size for carrying and for viewing. I don't need access to the internet to view the chips in my collection and I found an inexpensive application that will load my page scans into the ipad.

A thumb drive is useful for backup but you don't need it for storing your scans. I haven't felt it necessary to store text along with each chip as the picture (I scan both sides) gives me all I need to keep from purchasing another of a chip I already have. Since my collection is organized by categories, I can usually find any particular collection and the chips I already have in about 30 seconds. And since the scans look just as my collection pages look, I quickly know exactly which page to bring up.