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Printing/publishing a Book (Not to Be Sold to the Public)

My mom recently retired and I have been begging her to type up all of the family recipes now that she has more time on her hands. She loves the idea of writing a book and I thought it would be a nice idea to acually print it, or “publish” it in hard cover. Not to sell it or anything… just a few copies to distribute in the family.

Has anyone ever done this? Can you recommend any websites and how much did it cost you approximately?

Thanks in advance!

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Have you tried Shutterfly or Lulu.com? I've used Shutterfly for photobooks and they are always fabulous quality for about $20.

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Talk to your local FedEx Office Print and Ship Center. They can help you with this.

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Creative Memories is good. They will print books, and family members can order them. The books don't have to be photo scrapbooks; they can be journals, recipes, photos of the completed dishes, etc. A Creative Memories consultant can be located from their website.

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Years ago, for Christmas, father made us a recipe book of our family favorites. Since he had beautiful print he hand wrote the recipes, than took it to a local copy/print shop and had them copied onto heavy stock paper. He added a cover and had it bind with spiral binding.

20 years later, I still have my copy of our family cookbook and my son enjoys picking recipes to try.

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I make hardcover photo albums using sites like Shutterfly and Picaboo and I know you can select a "text only" page layout. They cost about $30-35 for a 20 page book, depending on page sizes. You could even do mire than one recipe per page, to maximize the book at the least cost.

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find a local printing company and get a quote from them . My son's dad works for a shop and he cuts all the books. He can't tell me how many family made recipe books and family genealogy books he's had to cut.

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Hi A.,

I'm using blurb.com to publish a children's book I'm doing for the family.

Have fun!

"Grams"
from the Pocono Mts. of PA

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Have you tried Shutterfly or Lulu.com? I've used Shutterfly for photobooks and they are always fabulous quality for about $20.

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Try www.lulu.com. I haven't used them yet but Kim Kammando recommended them on her radio program. Price will depend on size of the book and how many pages it is.

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