Every time I mistype my email or blogger password and have trouble logging in, I have a slight panic that my blog has disappeared.
Ok I have a total panic.
But seriously, what if that happened? We've had our little blog for like 5 years, and while I've continued to keep a private journal, and have a baby book for each of the kids, this blog is really it as far as record keeping of our family happenings are concerned.
I just heard a story recently from my sister about her friend who had someone steal her blog. Like her family blog! Why? I don't get it. The internet is so strange, and there are so many weirdos out there. It got me thinking (paranoid) about how crushed I would be if our blog was just gone one day.
Without my blog, how would my family remember funny little moments like this one? Days with young children in the house can be long, but the years are SO short. What happened in the last 3 years (other than Quincy finally growing some hair)? Our family blog is stuffed to the muff with posts about ordinary days where nothing really significant happened, but it seems unfair for them to be forgotten, because we lived them...and that is significant enough.
I really want to have my blog printed and made into a book...or a series of books/journal things so I have one for each year.
Does anyone have a company they'd recommend? Did you have to go through and edit every post, first? I can handle all of my grammatical errors and poor sentence structure in blog form...but on paper? It needs some hard core editing.
I'd love any suggestions/advice.
Have you printed your blog or thought about having it printed?
Did you edit, first?
Did you include every post? every photo?
Do the comments get printed as well?
If you include recipes or hobbies, do you separate them into a different book than the family book?
What company did you use? How much was it? What size is your book?
Do you ever fear that your blog will disappear, or am I the only one with attachment issues?
Also, scrolling though old posts has made me realize a few things:
A) I used to be a lot funnier.
2) I have sported a lot of really bad haircuts. Thank you for still being my friend.
D) Seriously, why didn't my daughters get any hair until they turned 3?
Goodbye Butterflies
12 years ago
7 comments:
I use blog2print.com. It isn't the snazziest thing I've ever seen, but I type in my blog URL, it uploads it all for me and asks me which format I want and if I want the comments included. I click done and it's about $25, depending on how many pages are in it. Blurb.com is another site I use to put together books and photos. I know you can use it with your blog, but I understand there is more involvement, like organizing the photos yourself, etc. I love having our blog printed because it's like a journal, photobook, time capsule all in one. What if this thing called the internet, that everyone depends on so much, crashes and dies one day? No worries, the blog is printed so all is well.
I use picaboo to print my blog. I put three months of posts into each book. I have to manually copy and paste everything over but the quality is really good. It is expensive though. They always have some sort of deal going each month. The last one I ordered was $75. I was probably spending that much making scrapbooks before after I printed all the pics and bought paper and stickers and all that stuff.
In the mean time, you can backup your blog on your hard drive. It's free. I do it every 6 months or so.
I like blurb - high quality printing and tons of options. here's a link http://www.blurb.com/make/flip/
ps You're still super funny
I use blurb. i just ordered my second book "2010" I love my first one. my kids look at/read it all the time. I think i spent $60 on it and it has about 130 pages. the one thing i don't like about it is I can't print comments. i rally wanted to include them and in the tutorial it says you can but I can't seem to find that option.
I know a lot of people who like blurb....I HAVE to do this. I too have years of stuff, and I would bawl my eyes out of it were lost.
Did Kasey tell you HOW to back it up onto your hard drive??
No, but I have a plan for that. I'm going to cover my desk in a huge assortment of candy that she won't be able to resist. Once she's had a few and is a little loopy, I'll just stick the laptop in front of her, and see if she'll do it for me. Then, I'll give her MORE candy, to wipe her memory clean, so when she thinks about her day, all she will remember is how awesome the candy at Meg's house was.
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