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Is it possible to make blog into a book?

Making your blog into a book can be a great way to preserve your memories and milestones. There are many companies that can help you accomplish this task; I’ll point you to the two most popular. (Of course, any self-publishing company can probably make your blog into a book, you’ll just need to verify you can upload your blog entry files and graphics.)

Blurb.com works with Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, and WordPress.com blogs. You download their software and use it to “slurp” your content (in other words, follow the directions and they’ll download your content into the book format). Pricing ranges from $13 (for a 40-page softcover) to $23 (for a 40-page hardcover with dust jacket). They have a video at their site that shows you how everything works. It appears to be very straight forward.

Lulu.com is another self-publishing company. You can publish your blog by creating a project, choosing your design, and uploading your files. As you choose your preferences, the upper right corner keeps track of your cost. It quoted me these prices: 8.5×11, perfect-bound, black and white, up to 150 pages was $7.53; the same book with color was $27.03. Whereas Blurb.com “slurps” your content for you, Lulu needs you to convert your blog entries into the appropriate file type. Lulu.com provides a list of accepted file types.

Though both of these sites offer a reasonably priced option for preserving your blog in book form, I think Blurb.com may have offered the easiest directions to follow. Their video tutorial was excellent.

Have any of you had experience with Blurb.com or Lulu or any other company? Let us know what you thought.

11 thoughts on “Is it possible to make blog into a book?”

  1. Michelle

    I am also writing in hopes of finding another site/company that will make my blog into a book. Blog2Print won’t work for me, it only allows 340 photos for the entire book. Please let us know if any other resources are found. I enjoyed using Blurb and hope to find another site like that!

  2. Jenna

    I used Blurb last year to make a blog book and I loved it. It was time-consuming, but I enjoy that sort of thing. I was greatly disappointed when I sat down to get started on this years blog book to find that Blurb no longer supports blogger. Now I don’t know what to do, my idea of publishing a book each year to create a family history from my blog seems impossible. I don’t want to switch host sites just for this, I like using blogger, I’m used to it. So if anybody knows any other place, other than blog2print, which doesn’t allow for editing, please share that. Thanks!

  3. Shannon

    FYI, blurb no longer supports blogger. i can see this entry is quite old that you have here. if you know of any other places that can slurp a blog, please let me know!

  4. Allison

    I really like this idea. I made a short ebook out of one of my blogs lately to email to a friend in the military who couldn’t get onto my website. He passed it on to other military friends and it went from there. I’m considering selling it now, since it was such a success!

  5. Desiree Rutter

    I am in the middle of a blurb “border nightmarish” experience. I was very enamored with blurb at first. My husband made a scrapbook from a mission trip with them. I LOVED his book. I decided to make a home scrapbook. I got all of the 126 pages with the right size and font on each page after changing it manually for each picture. . .I changed the background/theme and out the door went all of the changes that I made. Now I have to go back and change the sizes and fonts again to fit my page needs. I am not totally sure about slurping a blog. It does not seem very “intuitive” about what I would say are basic editing techniques. Now, that is my two cents on blurb and I like I said I have only scrapbooked on it. As far as cost efficiency it is one of the cheapest ways out there to scrapbook digitally.

  6. Christy

    I am in the process of doing a book using blurb. We were in Norway for 14 weeks and I wanted to use my blog as my scrapbook. It is easy but does take time once it is slurped into the program. I was expecting it to be practically done. The reason is that they put all blogs into the same template regardless of the number of pictures or the amount of text. From a graphic standpoint, I wanted my book to be more like a scrapbook so I am being quite anal and using all the different supplied templates depending on the number of photos int he post mainly. It is very easy to do though and I am so excited to see the finished product. My blog will be over 150 pages and I think it will cost about $45. A much better price than if I spent the time on a scrapbook.

  7. Antique Mommy

    I’ve been playing around with the Blurb software and it’s intuitive and easy to use. It easily “slurps” a regular blog (not self-hosted), including the pictures, from into the software and then you start messing with it from there. Slurping from a self-hosted blog is more complicated. My complaint with Blurb at this point is that it is so sllloooooowww that it will take me ten years to complete my project although the Blurb people have been responsive. I’m still looking at other self-publishers.

  9. Trixie

    Hi,

    I’ve been wanting to make my blog into a book (1 book per year) for a while now and had looked at Blurb. I’m anxiously waiting to read other readers’ experiences.

    Take Care,

    Trixie

  10. Ann Manby

    Hi, I just want to let everyone know that Blog2Print is another way to print blogs on Google’s Blogger platform. Blog2Print is a widget that you can add to your blog and you’re entitled to a 20% revenue share any time someone else makes a book from your content. http://www.blog2print.com

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