blurb supports blogs

[acroyear]

For those looking at the "get your blog in a book" solution and get tired of the one pdf site always being swamped, blurb's booksmart, the product and company I used for my italy photos, supports livejournal with their latest (1.9.9) release.  you can give it your LJ user/password and it will download the entries.  you can then select the entries you want to keep, tweak them into a layout and just save it for perusal at the computer, or send to blurb for printing (at a cost, of course).

It supports your tag categories, though it looks like it only grabs the first one it sees, so if you tag something with multiples it may not show you the one you might want.

It does NOT grab comments. It's really more for those who either want their blog preserved as a diary or are the type that write long essays worth preserving.  It doesn't look at or know about your "memory" posts, so you can't have it just look those up.  You CAN, however, do as much editing to the text as you want, including plenty of deletion of any of those "nothing much to say today" posts.

You can also print to pdf using cutewriter, but it will

1. have a "for proofreading only" watermark on it
2. use up a horrible amount of cpu and memory, so start it up at the end of the night and just walk away, as your computer will be dead to you for at least an hour. (this is likely caused by adding that watermark, as it is horrible even if you're just printing text with no pictures)
   

so, something to consider, but maybe not the ideal solution for those on my f-list here.

Comments

[kowari.livejournal.com]

As an aside to lj backups, blurb is a fantastic service and prints wonderful books. I have used it for 3 photo albums thus far which include 2 (professonal as in we got paid and were the official photographers) wedding albums. THey are just tops.

Use them!

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

we used them for our Italy photos (2 books, one for tourism photos, one for the family/wedding party) and were quite happy.