BenCrowder.net » Paper http://bencrowder.net I make stuff. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:31:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Lulu and iPhoto http://bencrowder.net/blog/2006/07/lulu-and-iphoto/ http://bencrowder.net/blog/2006/07/lulu-and-iphoto/#comments Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:09:11 +0000 Ben http://benjamincrowder.com/2006/07/06/lulu-and-iphoto/ My curiosity has been piqued by both Lulu and the bookmaking part of iPhoto. Lulu’s pretty darn cheap, and you can upload a PDF. I wonder how the paper quality is… Well, one of these days I’ll crank out From the Top of the Mountains there and see how it turns out. I also think I’ll try making a book of the best photos from my mission, through iPhoto. The quality looks pretty darn nice (from their website, at least). Mmm. It’s a bit more expensive, granted, but the prices are still pretty good all things considered. (In fact, come to think of it, I could probably do my illustrated kid’s book through iPhoto at about half the price BYU Press would charge me.)

I think I have an addiction to printing. :)

[tags]Lulu, iPhoto, printing[/tags]

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Oh, one last thing. I was thinking about buying Jan Tschichold’s The Form of the Book online. Not anymore — it’s $90 used! Rats. I can’t find it cheaper than that anywhere. Oh well. At least I have Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style to keep me happy. I wonder why Tschichold is so expensive…

[tags]typography, Jan Tschichold[/tags]

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