Best. Gift. Ever.

My mom prints out some of my blog posts and emails to save, and for my dad to read. While that's adorable, it's doesn't hold a candle to how happy my folks would be if I made them a Blurb book from my blog, like Steve Garfield made his mom:

If you want to make someone special in your life happy this holiday season, why not make a book out of your blog with Blurb? It's easy, and they've got a special promo from now through November 24th for 20% off plus free shipping. Give the gift you know they'll love!

Comments

[French la Vie]

I thought to do that as a way to have my blog in print as a backup.

Though with over 6000 of my photos attached to it, Blurb responding

that I would have to do several books. Glup. Cost gets into the way with that many photos.

Thanks Typepad for keeping my blog safe and cost effective.

[Peanut Blossom]

Am I missing something? How do you go about making a book out of your blog? Is there an export button that makes it a file Blurb can read more easily?

[Shannon]

Love it! My 82-year-old grandmother sometimes prints out my blog posts and MAILS them to her friends. Seriously. ;)

[Claire Alcock]

Hi Peanut Blossom - Blurb have a tool called BookSmart which you use to create the book. There is a "blog to book" option there which will draw in your TypePad content and then allow you to customize the lay out and content. We recorded a webinar on how to create your Blurb book from TypePad with one of the Blurb folks. Here it is http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2009/02/turn-your-blog-into-a-book.html

I love making books for people. They really are the best gifts ever.

[Peanut Blossom]

Thanks, Claire! That is super cool, I'll have to check that video out. . .

[The Pet Blog Lady]

We do books too! They're amazing!
http://www.MakeBooksOnline.com

[Account Deleted]

I've always wanted to do a Blurb book but when I imported my archives into the Blurb software it says my blog is too big and the whole thing crashes! I guess nine years of ramblings adds up to a lot of pages. A shame coz it would nice to have a big tome on the bookshelf, like an ansgty bible :)