2020 Is In The Books...

Brynwood Needleworks - 2020 Blog Books

 

I started ordering blog books every year when I started blogging, but stopped in 2014. Our internet connection seemed to hang up whenever I started the process, so I'd go on to something else and forget to try again.

I decided to get back to it, so I began with 2020, and I'll work my way back each year until I have them all. That way, if something happens with my blog, I'll still have hard copies.

Because I write every day - and keep the photographs and comments together with each post - I divide my books into two volumes. The first one contains my posts from January 1st to June 30th, and the second is July 1 to December 31st. I choose images from my blog posts for the front and back covers.

 

Brynwood Needleworks - 2020 Volume 2 Blog Book

 

Getting my blog book to print is really pretty simple. I order them from Blog2Print or it's sister company, Cutest Blog On The Block. All you have to do it enter your blog address, choose the date parameters, and wait for them to pull all the pages into a book. 

After the book is assembled, you can choose the pattern for your cover, and whether or not you want a hard or soft cover, a title, and what images you'd like for the front and back covers.

 

Brynwood Needleworks - 2020 Blog Book Inside

At that point, you also proof your copy to make sure you have the desired layout, and then you're ready to place your order. My books came back in less than two weeks, and they're really high quality. The best part was that I got a discount coupon to save 35% off the regular pricing.

I'll wait until I get another discount offer (they'll offer 40% off sometime during the year), and catch up with another year I've missed. By the end of the year, I should have every year printed  since I began my daily musing since 2009.

We've Had This Chat Before...

I originally posted this photo in October, 2009. (You can read about it here.) At that time, I was telling you about a wonderful service provided by The Cutest Blog on The Block, who provide my blog background design. I ordered my first blog books back then, and have recently ordered more to update my blog library.

I read this article last week about U.S. authorities shutting down WordPress host (with 73,000 blogs) and got paranoid all over again. I want to memorialize all the thoughts I've shared with my readers - Just. In. Case.

I really like this service, and it's available to other blog hosts - not just Blogger. They have lots of different cover designs. You can select hard or soft cover, and you can even choose to purchase digital versions. You can decide whether you want a compact layout, which uses the least number of pages, or the layout you used in your posts. They even allow you to edit your pages, include reader comments, and add or remove posts from your book. You just select the date range you want in one book, and go from there.

If you're interested, please use this link to visit The Cutest Blog On The Block book service, called Blog2Print, to see about turning your blog posts into books, too.

PS. Still busy with the ATCs and hoping to finish them tomorrow.

Call Me Creatively Paranoid...

On October 1st, I read that my blog friend, Cheryl of Zany-mayd lost her entire blog! Phhhhhtttt! Two and a half years of blogging, gone! Just like that. She had to start over. You've got to hand it to her. I have only been at this since March, but I'd have needed a prescription for The Prince (Valium) if that had happened to me.

I came across this link over at Cutest Blog On The Block (who provides my beautiful blog background), where you can get your blog printed - you know, in book form. (There's also a less expense pdf version, which is another alternative.) You choose the style for the cover, any images you want there, and then link them to your blog. You tell them the dates you want to encompass and they take it from there. In less than two weeks, your order arrives where you can see yourself in print! How cool is that?

Cheryl's experience sort of scared me into immortalizing my thoughts and words into something more permanent...and safe. I did mine in fifty-post hardcover books (pictured), but they can be done in hundred-post books, too. Oh, and there's the added bonus that you can offer the books to your followers. So, if any of you are interested in a Brynwood Blog book, (really?) just email me and I can steer you to the site where you can get one of your very own.

If you're like me and just a little paranoid that all those carefully chosen words could disappear into cyberspace in an instant, this is a way to make sure you have some memory of all those thoughts.