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Originally Posted by Jellsy

Ack, I was just going to print a 70 page book at blurb and now I'm scared!!
Since it is a 12 x 12 book, the photos and pages are quite large and I'm concerned about quality.
I have printed with shutterfly, but the cost would be so much more. I did notice printing was somewhat darker with shutterfly as well, so perhaps this is going to be the same.
Another concern I have is the cover... I have enlarge the 'image spot' on both the front and back covers to accommodate my 12x12 full bleed image, and my text and photos are centered exactly on the page. I'm wondering with the 'imagewrap' if it will come out centered or too far to the right side, since the right side gets wrapped. Any info would be great! j

Well, I don't want to add fuel to the fire, but as time goes on, I really am not pleased with my Blurb book. That is to say, it just isn't as durable as the Shutterfly books. I have a toddler and a nine-year-old and they are not hard on my books; in fact, they cannot look at them unless I am there with them. But somehow this Blurb book is smeared, stained with grease and who knows what else, and it's been bumped and torn on the top edge of the cover already.

I made sure with my Blurb cover that I used an image that was off-center so that it wouldn't matter where the wrap was, as long as it was showing on the front. I do have to say that their preview software is spot-on; so if you make your cover and preview it in BookSmart, that's what you'll get.

If you can afford it, I'd go with Shutterfly. For a 70 page book, I'd wait to save the $$ and go that route. I'm saving Blurb for my 100+ page books, and even now, I might opt to split a big book into two Shutterfly books.