Gift for friends: a book with the whole gang in it

What gift for friends should I choose?

For friends we usually pick something small: a bottle of wine or a candle. It is kind, but it says nothing about what you have been through together. A personalised book does. It has your names, pictures made from your photos and a story about the gang, with each of you in the hero's place. So a gift for friends becomes a reason to laugh together again, page by page.

A personalised book for friends suits a birthday, a name day, a reunion after years apart or a day with no occasion at all. It has 24 pages, with your dedication on the first, where you can write what is hard to say across a table.

Gift for friends: which of the three topics fits?

Personalised books for friends have topics of their own, each with a story built around the people you put in it. A topic also suggests a look, such as a collage for Our years, but every choice can be changed.

For a gift for friends, these are the three topics. You can start straight from the topic Our gang:

• Our gang: a trip nobody forgets, with a small car, too many bags and a beach that was not on the map.
• Our years: from the school desk to today, with notes passed in class and summers that never ended. For friends who changed cities and jobs but never each other.
• The last night of freedom: a gift from the gang for the bride or groom, with missions and songs for the night before the wedding.

How do your friends get into the book?

A gift for friends needs only names and photos: for each friend you type a name and upload up to 5 photos. One book holds up to 6 people, and every name is spelt as you typed it, because our own software places the words on the page, not the AI.

You do not need a big group. The topics for friends are written for two to 6 people, so a personalised book for two can be a gift for a friend.

A pet of the group can come too: it is drawn from its own photos and stays an animal in the story. So the gift for the gang has room for everyone, even the four-legged ones.

A digital or printed gift for friends?

The printed personalised book is a hardcover, 21 × 29,7 cm, and costs €43.40 with VAT, the digital book included. As a gift for friends it suits being opened in front of the whole group. Before it is printed, you see the complete digital book and approve it.

The digital book, at €12.40, is read online in your account. If you start with it, you can order the printed one later and pay only the difference. All the amounts are on the prices page.

If the gang has scattered across several countries, choose the language everyone reads, Greek or English. And for a birthday or holiday, allow time for printing and post: the delivery cost and time are shown before you pay.

How is a book for friends made?

You start by saying who is in the book, then choose the topic, the look and the dedication. Before you pay, you see the cover, the first three pages and two pages from the middle for free, with a watermark. The steps are explained in our guide to making a personalised book.

Before you upload photos, we ask you to confirm that you have the right to give them. They are checked on your own device, used only for the book and deleted automatically, as the photos page explains.

If the gift for friends is a surprise, share the jobs: one friend gathers the photos, another picks the topic, and you all write the dedication together. So the gift for the gang becomes the gang's own project.

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