The key for me has been to set myself some standards, and to try and upgrade the collection I have. In other words I take some stamps out of the collection because they are substandard. Others I replace when I can. I replace with copies that look fresher, have better centering or lighter cancels when I come across them. My collection is hinged.
Hinges are cheap, and they work pretty well.
The alternative is black mounts and the Scott pages, a least those I have, are too thin to hold them. The mounts gum bleeds onto the pages making them ugly and the mounts show through on the other side. I think the more recent Scott pages may be better suited to these mounts as the collecting of mint never hinged stamps is most easily done with recent stamps. I am in the market for used Scott International albums and the collections in them, and I'm happy to get messages from people who use these albums. I'm interested in selling.