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My Blurb book arrived. It's fabulous! See the end result...

In another thread I was explaining the steps and the overall experiences from Book setup to delivery and quality inspection. Check the topic by clicking here.

I thought however that it would be better if I posted some real photos from the end result of my photobook . These photos are also in the Blurb Flickr group.

Actually this is my first Blurb book, publicly available for view and I am very happy about the quality, the binding (this time!) and the overall feel and weight of the book. Last time I gave Blurb a bashing for loose leafs and binding issues from day zero. This time it’s better, although I am still crossing fingers! Colour reproduction is much better than expected, given the "difficult" subjects (sunsets etc). The overall feeling of the book is really professional and I would hesitate to give it very high marks.

The book contains 60 colour photos depicting Paros island, Greece. Pictures that convey the true spirit of the island… beyond beaches and the obvious pictures! A 15-page pdf book preview is also available in  my website’s Shop if you consider purchasing it. Comments on my Paros photos or the book would be most welcome at my guestbook.

So here are the results (some artifacts or visibe noise on these pictures is due to .jpg compression and not visible on the book)

1. An overall view of the inside:

Another view of the inside:

3. Detail of the binding/ stitching:

The hadcover (at the right of the cover there is a desk-lamp shadow which looks like a bent. It’s not. The book arrived in perfect shape)

Detail from the inside:

I have been critical to various things about Blurb in the past (check my previous posts!). But this time they got it really good and perfectly as expected and I think you should know it, so as to gain confidence!

Best regards, Yannis

Your book, and the photos of it, look wonderful. Congratulations!  And thanks for posting the photos here and on Flickr, Larios. 

-Allison 

Hi Yannis, your book looks terrific. I had a good experience with my first book as well. I notice that you sell it from your web site. Did you just buy up a volume of books from Blurb and then now sell and distribute them from your own web site?  I very much like to have my own look and feel with my book and not have Blurb as the intermediary between me and my clients. I paid extra to have my own logo but now would like my customers to come directly to me rather than go to the Blurb site to buy books. How have you handled this.  My site is:  www.ohlsenphotography.com and my book can be found at.  http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/90372

 I would appreciate your instigh Yannis, Regards, Dave

@rudyfan

Donna, thanks for your kind comments!

I also stick religiously to the tactic of ordering one copy first to check the quality of reproduction and then to move on to more copies if OK. 

I checked your website and it is very very well laid out and very informative! Congrats!

As for your photos, you should always bear in mind that color tinted vintage photos might be more difficult to handle. Even expensive home inkjet printers need more than a couple of black inks to faithfully reproduce gray tones.

I am sure though you will have "a different" and a much more fulfilling experience with your photobook! Hope the best! Please give us feedback and possibly some pictures of the book to share.

Regards, Yannis

(ps: oh! and something else… if you don’t think that the book meets your expectations, do try another copy with a hardcover this time. I remember reading somewhere in this forum by users, that the printing process of hardcovers is different and better)

@drothe

Thanks for your warm comments! This is a photobook dedicated to "Paros island" and contains 60 "different" glimpses (not so touristic etc.).

Some of my Paros photos are also here for you to see.

Regards, Yannis

This is probably the last step of this book process. I re-ordered a total of 7 additional copies of my Paros photobook for friends and for promotion purposes.

I had a raised eyebrow to check if quality would be consistent throughout all 7 copies.

I am very glad, that all 7 copies are of the same top-notch quality and binding strength and I should say that colour rendition is also a click better than the previous first-copy version.

Thanks Blurb!

Regards, Yannis

Larios! nice book and nice pics also ;) Thanks 4 posting photos of the final product…I’ve been lookin’ for real pictures in order to see binding, quality and paper and I didn’t find anything on the forums until now… :) thanks.