# Suggest software/website to assemble/print a small album

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-software-website-to-assemble-print-a-small-album/629725>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 29, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-software-website-to-assemble-print-a-small-album/629725 "2012-07-29T02:28:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-software-website-to-assemble-print-a-small-album/629725/1 "2012-07-29T02:28:36Z")

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So my parents are having a party in a few weeks to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary, the birth of their first grandchild, and similar stuff. For the party, I’ve been gathering anecdotes and photos. I want some way to assemble these into a fairly pleasing looking bound booklet, with 40 or so copies.

I was initially planning on doing it in Microsoft Word (or the equivalent) with a trip to Kinko’s, but it occurs to me there’s very likely a website whose raison d’etre is to simplify all the steps of the process. That is, I go there, pick a theme, type in a title, and then start uploading photos and blocks of text, and say “ok, this photo and this block of text on this page, these two photos on this page”, etc. Then I click some button, pay $10 a copy, and a week later n physical copies show up in the mail.  
Can anyone recommend such a service?  
thanks!

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-software-website-to-assemble-print-a-small-album/629725/2 "2012-07-29T04:15:00Z")

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Apple’s iPhoto and Shutterfly come to mind.

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**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2012, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-software-website-to-assemble-print-a-small-album/629725/3 "2012-07-29T07:13:50Z")

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I’ve used snapfish.