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Just the time to gather all your text, links and pictures, to put them into a nice blogbook. Getting the whole blog into a ready pdf file is no problem but i was wondering about a table of contents. Naimoli childrens books blog the official blog about izzy speechbubbles. After doing some research on blogging and finding relatively few resources that were specifically about how to start a book blog, i decided to put together this guide for those thinking about diving into the book blogging community. However, rather than writing your posts from scratch, search out existing blog posts to fill your chapters. You can also find a book blog where you can share your views about books that youve read and interact with different members of the site. Lulu a great service lulu is a major printerpublisher. Create a book from your blog posts and photos the easy way, with blog2print. I also hand out blog business cards at conferences and bookish events. To make a book with lulu, you need to make a pdf file of your blog and upload it to their site. Lulu was added by columbus in feb 2011 and the latest update was made in feb 2015.
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