"What will your book be?" Blurb is a sweet little site where you can create sweet little bookstore-quality books of your own. It takes scrapbooking and photo albums to a whole new level. You can use their BookSmart® software, or your own fave designing program from which you simply upload a pdf. Long gone are the days of paying millions for a wedding album. Long gone are the days of shoving 4x6 glossies into plastic sleeves. You can use your own creativity to make a gift even more unique and personal.
But I don't take photos...I just write short stories and poems.
They print those too!
This sounds crazy expensive!
Not necessarily. The aforementioned strictly B/W text book at 20-40 page, softcover, 5"x8" book costs a mere $4.95. And a 7"x7" softcover photo book is just $12.95. It's really pretty comparable to buying a book in a bookstore, only it's a book YOU FREAKING MADE YOURSELF!!!
A photo album is practically instantaneous. I'll have to wait like two months for my book to print.
Nope, 7-10 biz days.
Omg but Christmas is like TOMORROW!! I don't have time for this!!
Oh you'll MAKE time. Pull an all-nighter, pay the pretty high shipping costs, and order your book tomorrow and you'll get it by Christmas Eve!
No, but seriously just think of the possibilities! Make a family cookbook complete with recipes and photos! Scan in your kids' drawings and keep them forever in one fabulous place! Put together a sappy story of your relationship and be sure to include "Will You Marry Me?" on the last page!
Seriously...endless. I've been eyeing up Blurb for quite some time now. I could do anything, I have so many super rad ideas! But I'm sure my first stab at it will commence the addiction.
Even after Christmas is long over, keep this one in your back pocket. It'll be absolutely perfect for those far-too-frequent moments where you sigh and shrug: "What the heck am I going to get YOU this year?!"
As Blurb so rightly states:
Best. Gift. Ever.
Nice tag "so easy a caveman can do it"...Anyway, last year I got a discount from Shuttlebug to do something like this and spent a bunch of time on a book of the cats just for fun before bailing. The templates were too restrictive, and frankly, kind of lame. Looks like Blurb is way, way better. Definitely want to do something sometime. That cookbook the three of us swore we'd do someday? :-)
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