Round 1 was a year ago, Photobox vs. Blurb. While I've been very happy with Photobox for prints, their book printing was lousy -- very dark and dull, washed-out color. Blurb's book printing was vastly better, although Blurb's layout software was incredibly frustrating, a complete pain.
This year I'll try Blurb again, and maybe Bobbooks, Fotobook, and/or Cewe. I've downloaded Blurb's latest version and it's not better for layout. Unfortunately they put a lot of energy into being a vanity press, and it seems like a brilliant money-making scheme for them, but the upshot is they don't have to take the layout software problems as seriously I suppose. Shame. Also unfortunate is that Bobbooks, Fotobook, and Cewe, unlike Blurb or Photobox, offer windows-only software. (Ironically, Cewe uses an image of what looks like a Macbook Pro on a page showing a little camera-->computer-->book flow diagram.)
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have you tried the Apple one? or are these others just that much further ahead?
I did use Apple to print a calendar last year as well as, quite a while ago, a book. I checked Apple again and they are still incredibly expensive and limited on number of pages relative to everyone else. Doesn't seem to be a serious choice for the non-casual user.
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