Do you ever worry about losing what you have written on your blog? I do. I know its out there in cyberspace somewhere but everytimg Blogger acts up, I'm afraid the whole thing is going to come crashing down. There are also people, like my mother, who would like to thumb through a book rather than browse a blog. My mom's computer skills are limited to email and iTunes. -- which is pretty good, I think.
So, a few months ago I started thinking about publishing my blog in book format. I did a very unscientific search on the web and found a program called blurb. It had high ratings from users so I gave it a try. I made a little book from the first few months of my blog (end of 2010). I was really pleased so now I am trying to get the rest of the blog into books. It's a bit tedious because there are so many posts, and they won't all fit in one volume -- I think you are limited to 200-something pages per book.
After downloading the software (free), I imported my blog. I made the mistake of importing the whole thing and it took FOREVER. And then, because there was so much data it took forever to make changes. So, I deleted about half the pages and now it runs pretty fast.
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| This is what it looks like on the screen after being imported. I haven't played with the format yet. |
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| You can choose from a bunch of layouts for your text and photos. |
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| Here's one I formatted. I adjust spacing, arrange the pictures, etc. |
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| Then I look at the preview screen to see how it will look in print. Slick, eh? |
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Here's some shots of the 2010 book. It was a huge hit with my mom when she was down at Easter. I'm slogging through 2011 now.
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| The cover. |
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| The title page |
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| For this post, I used a full size picture -- I love this picture of me and Jackson. |
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| For this post, I highlighted a couple pictures on the right and left the others small. |
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| It even does a nice job with my poetry -- which has since moved to a different blog. |
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Hopefully, this post doesn't sound like an ad. I'm not getting anything for sharing my publishing project with you guys. I just think its pretty cool. Have any of you published your blog? What software have you used? Happy with it?
It's raining today with thunderstorms and possible snow flurries tonight. Ugh. A good day for projects.
