A noteworthy accomplishment and the book is a fine way to commemorate it. Nicely done. (I also enjoyed going through your cross-country book.) I do have one complaint though. Meg put together a scrapbook of sorts of photos of her and her five roommates from college and the many reunions they have had in the last 40+ years. We submitted it to Blurb on Tuesday a.m., June 28, and didn't receive our FedEx delivery from Seattle until today, Wednesday July 6. How is it that you got faster service?
A more serious comment on Blurb: Meg has another roommate reunion coming up next week, she wants to take the book with her, and it took us longer to get the book together than originally planned. So we ordered six copies at once rather than just the recommended first proof copy. No problems. Good binding, good printing. stan On Jul 6, 2011, at 7:01 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > G'day all > > As I mentioned in my reply to Derby's recent post, Blurbing can be > addictive! > > Having recently turned over 100 acceptances to the PPG, I thought it > would be nice to have those in print. Hence "One Hundred Photos": > > http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2284776 > > I'm under no illusions about the quality of the photos - there are > plenty of others on this list who are far more innovative than I. In > fact, I'm no longer all that fond of some of the accepted photos but, > damn it, they might be cliches but they're my cliches..... > > Anyway, the printing quality and colour accuracy is spot for all but a > couple of the images. Blurb's Book Smart software is a bit clunky but > you can work around its limitations. It might not be possible to > produce the professional layout that Mark achieved with the 2011 PDML > Annual using In Design, but Book Smart can still produce an attractive > looking product. > > I continue to be impressed by Blurb, not just for the printing but the > overall speed and efficiency of the operation. I uploaded on Tuesday > night June 28 and FedEx arrived on my doorstep with the finished product > on Tuesday morning 5 July - six and a half days and that included a > public holiday in the US. The delivery started in Seattle and proceeded > via Oakland and Honolulu on it's way downunder. > > Now - what can I get printed next.... > > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > > > > -- > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different... > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
