Blurb Photo Books

This is my 3rd time assembling a book with Blurb. Each experience has been wonderful. My first book I purchased 60+ copies-A 60 year history of the Pacific Grove, CA Rotary Club. My 2nd was a revision to simplify the first book. My 3rd I just ordered about a family vacation. I am currently working on ‘The 70 Year History of the PG Rotary Club’-an update to current times. I have been so pleased that this company still exists & I can download my old book in order to add add more 10 years of ‘good deeds by this club’.

I just received my 2nd Blurb photo album, I’m hooked. I travel a lot and my “real” camera downloads to my cell phone, which allows me immediate access to my photos. Then to be able to get my pictures printed in an album, that looks like a book, is beyond awesome. So, instead of waiting for months or a year to finally get some pictures printed, I have them 2 weeks after my trip. Thank you Blurb.

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After spending a few days with this app, I was initially thrilled at the ease of navigating it as opposed to using Bookwright, which is far more complex. This review however is for the one thing no one else mentions, which is a personal peeve - I want to sell these to customers, as a professional collection of my art -but you have permanently blobbed the back cover with your unattractive BLURB logo. It looks ridiculous, and while I understand you’d like me to advertise for you gratis, I find it insulting that I am paying you to exploit your brand. You could at least offer the option of removing your logo- these books are pricey, and I’m getting no break to compromise my aesthetics. Most chapped at this annoyance and your presumption.

You can quickly make and preview a simple photo book with this app. It doesn’t allow you to edit photos in the app but will update the book layout with edits you make in your photo app — it just takes a lot of switching back and forth for tweaks. It needs some features, like being able to edit the size of the book (for example from 7x7 to 5x5) after it’s started, copy a complete layout to a new book project to edit or expand it, create simple collage page layouts, or undo an edit (like if you accidentally reformat all your pages).

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Only two book sizes, no layout options, and a limit of 80 photos per book make this app completely useless to me. I wanted to use this to make a book of my 365 project, but that is not possible with the limited functionality and options available. Blurb’s desktop based program is by far superior, but I really don’t want to have to dig out my antiquated laptop to make this photobook, so I will be looking into other options. Blurb, your lack of a fully functional app for the iPad is loosing you business.