Earlier this year, I was talking with Jimmy about wanting to print out our blog. I tried to find a service that would do it, with no luck. I was so excited when a few friends posted about blurd for blog books. I imported my blog, but was disappointed that you couldn’t change the layout to appear just the way it did on your blog. For example, the pictures would be on a separate page than the text, and I wanted my captions to be by the pictures still. Last month I was on another friend’s blog, and saw a link for lulu.com, I decided to use lulu to print my blog, and I am really pleased with the product. It was only around $50 for over 250 color pages with a hard bound cover.Before finding lulu, Jimmy had considered printing our blog at kinko’s, and surprising me for my birthday, but that would have been over 3 times as much, with no binding!
Jimmy wrote a script to import our blog so that it even has everyone’s comments too.
The cover is just from one of their templates. Next time, I will look into customizing the cover with pictures.
I think this is a great way to keep a family journal, and so affordable for printing a ton of pictures!
I’ll have to check lulu out. I am working on a blurb book (I am manually going through each page and making changes to the formatting, but its taking forever) so this might be a better alternative.
That is great! I love it!
I love it! I think that I will have to look into it. Thanks for the info.
That is so cool!! You will have to give me all the info for that! I want to come over and see it too.
I’ve been wanting to do the same thing too! Thanks for sharing!
I was thinking that I would just scrapbook everything as well, but there are posts that I wouldn’t scrap about, so this sounds like a great deal, and very affordable. I made memory books for Dan, my Dad and Grandpa, and they only had about 40 pages and and are only 8X8, and cost abour $50. Thanks for the advice.
That is so cool! I may look into doing that myself. I’m sure Zeke will look at it over and over and over through the years. :)
I am so glad you blogged about your book (and glad I got to see it in person too). This is a great idea!!
That looks like it turned out great! Thanks for the info b/c we’ve been wanting to do that for Christmas (I’m not a scrapbooker) but didn’t know who to do it through.
Wow, that looks awesome! Thanks for sharing the tip!!
What a great idea!! Thanks for all the info. I’ll have to check it out! My kids would love a book like that!