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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

My Blog Book is Here!

In a previous post I told you about my blog book project that I had been working on. Well, I finished my blog book, ordered it, and it has already arrived! It came even sooner than the estimated delivery date. And I am so pleased with the way it turned out. Blurb.com did a fantastic job.

Here are a few photos of my completed book.

Front Cover


Open Book


Back Cover


I'm thinking of writing a blog post about the process of creating this book. But, that may have to wait a while because of my busy schedule at the moment. I still need to finish my presentation for the class I'm teaching at our local Family Discovery Day in May. I'm happy to say that I was able to finish and turn in my syllabus by the deadline.

In addition to photos of my book, I also thought I'd share the preview of my book from Blurb.com.

Thanks for reading!

Jana

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19 comments:

  1. Michigan GirlApril 14, 2015 at 11:26 AM

    Oh my gosh Jana! Just love the little video of the book. I wonder if Blog2Print has that option? Good job!!

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    1. Jana Iverson LastApril 14, 2015 at 12:54 PM

      Thank you! I really don't know if Blog2Print has the same option to embed the book preview on a blog or website. I never got far enough in the book-making process with them to find out. I preferred Blurb instead so I went with them.

      Thanks for stopping by!

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  2. Michelle Ganus TaggartApril 14, 2015 at 11:30 AM

    What a beautiful book Jana! It turned out so nice!

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  3. Janet IlesApril 14, 2015 at 12:24 PM

    The book really turned out well.

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  4. WendyApril 14, 2015 at 12:43 PM

    Love it Jana. Did you insert the headers on each page or was that automatic?

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    1. Jana Iverson LastApril 14, 2015 at 12:51 PM

      Thanks Wendy!

      The headers were automatically generated on each page. Although every time I added a new page, I had to "tell" Blurb to add the header to the new page. It was actually very easy to do.

      Thanks for stopping by!

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  5. Debi AustenApril 14, 2015 at 12:50 PM

    I love it - great job!!!

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  6. ScotSueApril 15, 2015 at 1:56 PM

    Congratulations, Jana. Your book looks so impressive - no wonder you are proud of it. Yes, I would certainly like to hear about the process, when you have time to tell us all about it.

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  7. Jo HennApril 16, 2015 at 5:49 PM

    Oh, that's very nice! I'd love to hear about the process as well.

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  8. Colleen G. Brown PasqualeApril 17, 2015 at 6:16 AM

    Jana, that looks very nice. You have inspired me to make a print copy, in some form, of my blog. I see that Blog2Print sends the posts quickly & easily. I wonder if Blurb does the same. I use My Publisher for photo books often but I know I'd have to import one post at a time for that format. Thanks for sharing your book!

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    1. Jana Iverson LastApril 18, 2015 at 9:58 AM

      Thank you very much Colleen!

      Yes, Blurb can "slurp" blog posts to create a book, although apparently Blurb doesn't support importing from WordPress blogs for some reason.

      Thanks for stopping by!

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  9. Little NellApril 20, 2015 at 10:53 AM

    It looks great! I've done four of these now with Blurb, and am working on my fifth. Your blog readers are impressed , and rightly so as these take quite a longtime to put together; the result is well worth it I think.

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    1. Jana Iverson LastApril 20, 2015 at 10:04 PM

      Thank you so much for your kind words. Wow! You've done four books with Blurb already. That's awesome! And you're so right. These books do take a long time to put together, but I believe the end results are well worth the time and effort. Thanks for stopping by!

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  10. AnonymousApril 23, 2015 at 4:41 PM

    I've used Blurb for a number of family history books but haven't used the blog slurper yet. Looks like it turned out great for you. Congratulations!

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