# Blurb.com or similar

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blurb-com-or-similar/508352>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 31, 2009, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blurb-com-or-similar/508352 "2009-08-31T14:28:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blurb-com-or-similar/508352/1 "2009-08-31T14:28:30Z")

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I’m looking for a high quality way to “publish” a book of photographs and text. I found a couple of threads here where people were very happy with both [blurb.com](http://blurb.com) and [lulu.com](http://lulu.com). I want very high quality for this both in the layout and execution. I have absolutely zero experience doing this–would I be better off paying someone to do the layout for me or is the software for either blurb or lulu easy enough to use that I will be able to put together a great looking book? How does the final product compare to a commercial “coffee table book”?

Any thoughts, tips or recommendations are more than welcome…

Thanks.