My friend Miwaza just told me about Blurb, where you can publish your own books and photos in softcover or hardcover. (Guess which I’m getting. LOL.) I’m so excited! I wanted to make a baby book but I’ve never done scrapbooking before and I’ve thought what a pity to put all that work into making a scrapbook and only have one copy to show for it in the end. Here’s the perfect solution!
Even better, I can publish my own books for my babies to study from instead of writing everything out by hand onto notebooks and sketchbooks. I’ve been planning and laying out a scrapbook for Rinah with all the basic stuff we’re working on now (like Genesis 1, 10 Commandments, Apostles Creed, Te Deum, Magnificat, etc., etc.) and trying to practice calligraphy with a little tot running around the room or squirming in my lap and it was NOT working.
Now I just need to upload pictures and text and hit “publish” and I’m done! And it will look better than anything I try to do by hand. And I will be all done before the next baby is here! And my babies will each have their own copies! Ooooh, maaaan. I can’t wait to start! Thank you, Miwaza!
WOW! This is so awesome! I just downloaded the program and joined and am going to make a scrapbook for Camden’s pictures. I have been stressing over how I was going to catch up on three years worth of scrapbooking before the new baby came. I am also going to make a blog book eventually. I think that’d be fun. Oh so many fun ideas! I have a bunch of writing I did in High School that I’d love to bind.
Interesting. Does the software support non-English characters?
This is wonderful! I’ve finally started Terran’s book (hmmmm…unfinished/unbegun baby books seem to be a theme here). I wish they had a little more flexibility on playing around with text and type, though. I’m getting around it by doing some pages in photoshop – text and all – and then uploading the whole page as an image. We’ll see how well it works.
This is going to be so great – I foresee gifts for all the grandparents!
This looks interesting. I just contacted them, and found out they are using HP Indigo digital presses, which closely approximate traditional offset printing, as opposed to older digital “presses” which use toner and are basically glorified copy machines.
I’d heard about the technology but didn’t know it was available from POD sources yet. I’ll keep these guys in mind . . . but it would be nice if they started accepting file formats other than their own proprietary ones. If I need a short run printed I’d probably try to find a place using the same technology but who accepts InDesign files, or at least PDFs.