Dear Editor

Your chance to get your questions answered.

I have just about caught up with the last few magazine issues and noticed the letters pages, where there is a discussion about collecting databases and software. I use a dedicated and purpose built collecting software solution which is brilliant and does everything any collector would want. I work in IT software & databases for education, so I can speak from some experience and enthusiasm for this product. I would love to do my first article for you on this topic and explain how it can work and be set up and customised. It is so much more effective than using Excel or any other non dedicated application, and works across Apple and PC platforms with Apps for IOS and Android, so you can take the collection with you. It is also very reasonable to buy and trouble free to install and run. I think this would be a really good solution for you, so I’m looking to develop something for an article, and this would also meet what is obviously a demand from readers to know more and have something available to them. I hope you agree?

Philip Gibbins-Klein, email

ED That sounds like an excellent idea for an article, so please keep me in the loop on your discussions with the developer and we can factor in some magazine pages in due course. I’m sure this will prove to be of great interest, particularly the portability for those of us with larger collections – I’ve lost count of the times where I’ve bought a model, either online or at a toy fair, then find when I get it home I’ve already got one that I’d forgotten I’d already purchased!