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Making the Book

Two decisions ruin most home-printed family books, and both are easy to get right once somebody tells you what they are.

How to Print a Family Book So It Does Not Look Homemade

The difference between a family book that gets kept and one that gets put in a cupboard is decided by two choices, and both are made before you print anything.

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The Best Paper and Binding for a Family Book That Gets Handled

Every binding is fine on the day it is made. The question is which one is still fine after thirty years of being taken off a shelf.

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How to Choose a Family Story Service: Nine Questions to Ask First

Most of these services look similar from the outside. Nine questions separate them, and the answers are rarely on the pricing page.

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How Much Does a Family History Book Actually Cost?

The number people compare is almost never the number they end up paying. Here is where the rest of it sits.

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A Family Book as a Gift: What to Give, and What to Wrap

The gift is excellent and the delivery is awkward, because there is nothing to hand over. That is a solvable problem.

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Storyworth vs Prime Life Stories: An Honest Comparison

We are one of the two things being compared here, so read it with that in mind. We have tried to write the version we would want to read.

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Remento vs Prime Life Stories: An Honest Comparison

There is one thing Remento does better than us and it is not a small one. Here is the whole picture, including that.

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