My blog book appeared on my back porch last evening and it looks awesome. I am really impressed with it and I'm totally motivated to format We've Been Outsourced: The Second Year.
I would recommend this to anyone thinking about turning their blog into a book. The pictures are quality and the writing looks professional (the style not the content). Next time I'm going to pay a little more for a few more pages so I can make my pictures bigger. The pages with six pictures on a page and text (it was the default page- it may have changed by now) are a little cramped for my taste.
I used Blurb and my 200 page, hardback, book cover included was only $40 with shipping. I did have a coupon code giving me $15 off. They did not pay me to recommend this to you. Although another coupon code would be nice :)
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I can't wait to see it! Maybe I'll be motivated to finally finish my first year. I made it through May. That's almost 6 months ago already!
yay! i am excited you finally got it!!! I can't wait to see it one day!!
what about videos. what happens when there is a video on your post? i mean you can't put that in a book. just wondering since you've inspired me to look into doing one myself.
cool :) I wanna see a picture of it!
Me too - I wanna see pics too! I love memory type books, so I'm gonna look into this! Thanks for the recommendation.
what about slideshows ..how does that work?
For the videos i think it just pulls the screencap from the first but maybe not that. I looked at where I had videos and I must have deleted it or they didn't pull anything. beth e: I know your blog is a lot of videos so I don't know how it would work without them.
for slideshows and in typepad, the photo albums and actually anything in the side bar, it doesn't pull those. It only pulls the posts. I had to maually go back and add in the photos from photo albums and slideshows.
I'm not going to lie- it was a lot of work. It pulls the posts into a standard format so I went back and reformatted the whole thing, making it fit better, enlarging some pictures etc. But I think it looks great and I think my next one will look even better now that I have this one in my hands to see.
It is so worth it to have your time there and the changes your family had that way! Can't wait to see it! GOOD JOB...my sister would be so proud of you...you know the whole family memory maker and all..:)
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