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Blurb bookwright7/29/2023 ![]() ![]() That smacks a little of taking advantage of your customers. I’d be surprised if the postage and the cardboard packing cost Blurb more than £2.00. Bear in mind the book was printed and posted in the UK. The postage for my single book was £6.99. My only quibble with Blurb pricing is how much they charge for shipping. In fact, when you get to the pricing page, the Journal option disappears completely, which can be more than a little confusing. Well, Blurb also offers bespoke journals and–as far as I can tell–Blurb Journals and Trade Books are basically the same thing just with different options. Ok, maybe not.Īt this point, you might be wondering what the Trade Book has to do with journals. “Every year, the Pensacola Rivet Company produces a full-color printed digest of the 500 most popular rivet varieties across the contiguous united states (Alaska and Hawaii have never been big in the rivet world).” That is the Trade Book. That obviously can’t happen this year, so I had the subject of my a journal, a small homage to a city I love.īlurb makes a product called a Trade Book, which sounds a little utilitarian, maybe the sort of thing a rivet manufacturer in Pensacola would use. About this time in a normal year, we’d be heading off to Berlin for a few days. So the opportunity to combine the two and make my own Journal was just too good to pass up. My other lockdown preoccupation has been trying to print more of my work. ![]() Field Notes are ideal for stuffing in a back pocket, for notes on the go–what they’re not so great for, is using as a journal, the pages are just too small. ![]() Up to now, I’ve been using my, handy-dandy, Field Notes notebooks. One of the habits I’ve been trying to form during lockdown is to write more frequently in my Journal. ![]()
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