I’ve just taken delivery of my first attempt to use blurb.com to produce a book. It’s fabulous. It was so easy to do and the quality of the hardback book I’ve received is way beyond my expectations. And for any fellow bloggers, it’s a real treat to be able to page through a hard copy of your blog. I really do recommend it.
I am SO thrilled with the result. Click here to go and see for yourself.
What I wanted to do was produce a hardback copy of my first year of blogging. The blurb service has a program to download called “booksmart” and you use this to create your books. Included in the program is a great tool called “blogslurp” which downloads a complete copy of your blog into a template on your hard drive. You can then edit every single page, choosing different page layouts, upgrading low resolution photos for higher resolution copies from your photo library, and deleting or adding any text you choose. You then hit “upload” and that’s it. If you want you can preview the book as a pdf but I didn’t bother. I chose the largest format hardback book they do.
I am delighted with the quality of the printed copy and it got to Scotland in less than 10 days from the time I hit the upload button.
Here are some photos of the book to give you an idea what it looks like.
Heroes Not Zombies 