When this review is finished I'll be giving them each a copy of the baby book, so I wanted to know which ones they liked the most. I laid them all out on a table and asked my mother and mother-in-law to look at the books and select their favorites. When Family Members Weigh In.īeyond my own opinion of book quality, I wanted to get some outside opinions of the photo books. JULY 2014 UPDATE: I've used Photobook America a couple of times, and their overall quality is great, and the cost isn't bad as long as you use a coupon (which is easy). The addition of the photowrap cover and new super gloss paper/lay-flat page options changes everything. That's about all you can ask for, right?ĪPRIL 2011 UPDATE: If I were doing this review over from scratch, I suspect I'd end up picking MyPublisher as the all-around favourite. The logo on the back isn't too big, and it boils down to this: when I pick up the Inkubook version of this baby book and flip through it, I feel like it's a good representation of the effort I put into creating the book in the first place. Though there's no spine printing, the excellent paper quality and good-quality printing make for an impressive book. Kodak Gallery prints a great book, but because of their page size I didn't print the baby book with them - and I'd have wanted to use my own cover anyway.įigure 85: The "winner" through the process of elimination. The photo book cover just didn't measure up to the rest, despite excellent paper and good printing. MyPublisher? An excellent all-around book, but both my wife and I strongly prefer the photo-wrap covers instead of a dust jacket (which they now offer). The Blurb offerings all looked nice, but the paper quality simply didn't measure up to the better quality books - and they're a bit physically small compared to the other books. The Photobook Canada book was excellent in every aspect except the back cover which looks like a printing mistake, and the perfectionist in me won't allow that to go on display. Picaboo, ArtsCow, Snapfish, and Shutterfly, were also off the list immediately due to print quality issues. They're both excellent, but I don't want to show people a truncated version of the baby book, so they were out of the running immediately. Which one did we pick? If Mpix and AdoramaPix were able to print all 60 pages, I guarantee it would have been down to those two - so that tells you what I think of the overall quality of both, even if both books lacked spine printing. At the final stage of this review, we looked through all of them and selected the one that we wanted to put on our coffee table. Since the impetus for this review grew out of my dissatisfaction with the books I received from Picaboo, my wife and I have spent quite a bit of time looking at each of the books.
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