They reprinted and shipped, without charge, a new copy of each book. To Shutterfly's credit, customer service was awesome when I contacted them about this problem. In one book, this happened to pages in the middle of the book in the other book, it happened where the pages were attached to the cover. In each of the books, the binding broke when pages pulled away from each other where they were glued together. And I think that this type of construction simply cannot support the weight of 111 double-thick pages glued back to back to back. But Shutterfly allows you to go up to 111 pages, and I took advantage of that fact and used the entire 111 pages. This probably would not be a problem in a smaller book, such as if you stuck to the basic 20-page book. The pages are not attached to the spine, just to each other.
How the binding is constructed is that the pages are glued back to back to back to back through the whole book, and then to the covers on either end. I ordered two copies of the book - one for us and one for my parents - and both copies' bindings broke after short-term, gentle use. Here's where I ran into problems with this book. (Other companies, like MyPublisher, I would have had to make the pictures extra-bright for them to print bright enough in the book.) Like with my regular Shutterfly books, I didn't have to lighten my pictures more than normal before putting them into the book. Good as or better than the pictures in a normal Shutterfly book. It looks great, feels great, and has gives the book a gravitas appropriate for a wedding album.
It's double-thick the way the book is constructed is that each page is glued back-to-back with the next page. The paper used in this book is much thicker than in regular Shutterfly albums. For all of my other photobooks I have hard image covers (which I also love), but for this special album, our wedding album, it's really nice to have a classic, leather cover. I love the black leather cover with the stitching around the edges. Here are my thoughts on all the different aspects of the book: So I did, and I'm very happy overall with the finished product. Once they came out with their layflat pages, it didn't take long before I decided to make my wedding album with them.
#MYPUBLISHER FREE LAYFLAT SOFTWARE#
I had used Shutterfly many times before (you can see my big review of Shutterfly here), was very familiar with their software and print quality, and was really excited to see these new options. At the same time, they upped the maximum number of pages per photo book from 100 pages to 111 pages. While I was trying to decided which company to use, Shutterfly came out with their Premium Leather photo books with layflat pages. (You can read my whole AdoramaPix review here.) I decided against MyPublisher because of the gutter in between the layflat pages and because some of the pictures in the album printed unexpectedly dark. I decided against AdoramaPix because of the page constraints (you can only order very specific amounts of pages, and 76 pages was the most you could order) and the real photo paper in the books which, while very nice, wasn't as clear and sharp as I wanted. I ordered different layflat photo book projects from each company to test them out. Two companies that I seriously considered were AdoramaPix and MyPublisher. ( This picture is a good explanation of what layflat pages are.) I knew that I wanted layflat pages, and when I first started planning this book there were only a few companies that offered that feature.
One of the reasons it took me so long to make this book is that it took me a long time to decide which photo book company to use.
It only took three years to put together, haha. This year I finally finished making our wedding album.
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