Blog Book!

Since about the time Kendall was getting ready to turn one, I have been thinking about how I would love to have our blog printed out in book form so that we have a hard copy of it. We started in November of 2007, with her 3D sonogram pictures, and I would just be a wreck if somehow all of our posts were lost or something happened. Plus, it would make for a really cool baby book, and since I don't scrapbook it would take the place of that too. So, I started researching websites that enable you to print your blog. There are not many...at least that I have found. And some of the ones I found don't support Blogger blogs - just other kinds like Wordpress and Typepad. But just recently I found two that I thought might work and might get my blog printed for a reasonable price. That's the other part of this saga....we have blogged A LOT! I would love to print the blog each year, but this first year (and a half) of blogging has been very long!
All that to say I decided to go with www.blurb.com. They have this free software called BookSmart that you download onto your computer, it then "slurps" your blog onto the software, and then you can go through and edit, cut out posts, condense pages, etc. When it slurped our blog, we had 846 pictures from November 2007 to February 2009. I don't know how many posts. But it put each post on a new page, with some posts that are longer taking more than one page, and our inital page count was 276!!! I have been working through it and condensing some of the posts onto one page, or putting more than one post on a page, and I am down to 250 pages. It takes a LONG time because either the software is slow or our computer is slow or both. But, when we are finished, we will have all of our blog in a nice hard-bound book!
Maybe before Kendall turns two we will have the book done of her first year of life!
(I would love to hear of any other sites people have used to do this. I also looked at http://www.scrapbookblogger.com/, but it wouldn't load all of our blog for some reason. )