# The photo album is dead... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 28, 2008, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-photo-album-is-dead/447202 "2008-04-28T11:53:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-photo-album-is-dead/447202/1 "2008-04-28T11:53:04Z")
…long live the [Blurb book](http://www.blurb.com)! I’ve been wanting to do a big photo book of a world trip I took five years ago, but couldn’t find any that do enough pages and don’t cost the Earth. Blurb does up to 440 pages and is amazingly cheap. I did a trial book last week and it is great - just like a proper coffee-table book, with a glossy dust cover and all. And it cost less than I would have paid to print out the photos individually and buy a cheap album to stick them in. I am now about two-thirds of the way through my masterpiece: 305 pages and about 1,000 photos so far… and already planning the next one. I might finally get through all those photos that have been languishing for years waiting for me to do something with them. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-photo-album-is-dead/447202/2 "2008-04-28T12:00:19Z")
Those things are so cool. My sister won a free coffee table book from Shutterfly. She sent it to her boyfriend’s mom. I got to look through it before she sent it off. I was quite impressed. The quality was great and you never have to worry about the pictures being damaged. I fully plan to get one for my mom but first I have to get to her house and raid her picture collection without her knowing. I also want to get one for my Grandfather’s 80th birthday this year but again, I have to find a way to raid his photo collection without him knowing. I still love a nice old fashioned photo album though. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-photo-album-is-dead/447202/3 "2008-04-28T12:04:37Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] I might finally get through all those photos that have been languishing for years waiting for me to do something with them. 🙂 [/QUOTE] I don’t see how this is going to help me with these boxes of heirloom photos… Unless I could get someone to scan them all for me ! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-photo-album-is-dead/447202/4 "2008-04-28T12:55:55Z")
That looks? _Really._ Awesome. I’ll have to bookmark this. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-photo-album-is-dead/447202/5 "2008-04-28T13:02:17Z")
I’m probably playing right into their hands… 😉 but I have a box of photos lying around, as well as just scads and scads of vacation photos and the like. I’d like to do a personal photo album and one of my different vacations.