Using Plastic Pocket Page Albums

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The easy-load sleeve style album has plastic pockets that you can slip your photos into. The pockets generally are all of one size, and 4x6 is by far the most popular and common size you'll find. They do exist in other sizes, but they are less common.
Typically, you'll find two styles of plastic-pocket type albums:

Plastic sheets with pockets that fit into a 3 ring binder

Bound albums with a paper foundation, that has plastic sleeves over

If your photos are all 4x6, an easy-load plastic pocket album is a great choice. To assemble this album, you'll just slip one photo into each pocket and you're done.
The advantage of this style album is speed, and also the fact that the plastic covering over the photos does offer a level of protection from things like fingerprints and dust. The disadvantage is that the plastic pockets offer very little flexibility. If your photos are of varying sizes, or if you want to arrange a more creative layout, the pockets won't work for you.
Some pocket sleeve albums have space to write in a caption or date, and some don't. One more disadvantage of the plastic sleeves is that the available designs are somewhat limited and the plastic can make an otherwise elegant handcrafted book look a little more "ordinary," and they often don't cost any less than a more traditional scrapbook style book.

This example is one sheet of a plastic pocket page. The pockets are sized for 4x6 photos, and this will accomodate 2 vertical photos and 1 horizontal photo.	Slip your photos in one at a time, and you'll notice that the shiny glare on the plastic all but disappears.	The pages come with a small memo card that slips out, so you can write captions and comments on the pages.	You can use both sides of each sheet by placing 2 photos into each pocket, back to back.
Once you have arranged your photos, just open the rings of the binder and fill it up.	The Hudson album has paper sheets bound into the book, with a plastic overlay that is divided into 4x6 pocket sections. $1.00	A memo area next to each pocket allows you to add captions and comments next to each photo.	Just slide your photos into the pockets.
Some bound albums are designed to hold 3 photos per side, others hold 2 per side.	One drawback to the Hudson Album is that the pockets are all oriented horizontally. This means that if you have a vertical photo, you'll have to turn it on its side to include it in the book.	The Hudson album has spacers bound in at the spine to allow for the extra thickness created by your photos. When new, the side view is wedge shaped. Once you have put all your photos in, the fore-edge will expand to lay flat.