How to make a personalised book: the eight steps

How to make a personalised book, step by step

Every personalised book goes through the same steps, in this order. The Back button takes you to the previous question whenever you like.

• Who it is for: a new baby, a child, a couple, the family or friends.
• The people: each person's name and who they are. For a child, the age group; for a baby, whether they are born yet. Children's, baby, family and friends books can also include a pet.
• The story: for a child, first a category and then a topic; for the other books, the topic straight away. For children and babies you also choose what the story should leave behind, such as courage, kindness or patience.
• The look: picture style, colours, lettering and the language of the book.
• The dedication: one of the suggested lines or your own words.
• The photos: first you confirm that you have the right to give them, then you upload up to 5 for each person.
• The free preview, and the choice between the digital book and the printed hardcover.
• The order: your email, the code we send to it, the address (printed book only) and payment.

What do you need for a personalised book?

The names of the people, spelt the way you want them, and a few good photos of each. The names are placed on the pages by our own software, so they appear exactly as you typed them.

A good photo shows one person, facing the camera, in good light, with no sunglasses. Two or three from different angles help. Every photo is checked on your own device before it is uploaded, and a baby who is not born yet needs no photo at all. Everything about a book from photos is in its own article.

How do you choose the topic and the look?

In a personalised book for a child, the age group decides which topics you see and how much text each page carries. There are many categories: feelings, adventures, celebrations, Greek mythology, classic tales and more, all on the stories page. You do not choose between a ready-made and a new story: you choose a topic, and the book tells its personalised story around your answers.

For the look you choose one of 17 picture styles, each with a large example, one of 15 colour palettes and one of 6 typefaces. The topic suggests a look, but you can change all of it, and the book on screen changes with every tap. The language of the book, Greek or English, is a separate choice.

What does the free preview show?

Before you pay, you see how your personalised book will look: the cover, the first three pages and two pages from the middle, with a watermark. The free preview commits you to nothing. If you want to change something, you change it before you order.

This book from photos is not an album: the pictures are artistic likenesses of your people, not photographs. The text is written with the help of artificial intelligence from the frame our team wrote and checked for each topic. Read what AI does in the book.

What does it cost, and what happens after you order?

The digital personalised book costs €12.40 and the printed hardcover €43.40, VAT included, with no extra charge for the personalised story. The printed book includes the digital one.

You read the digital book online, in your account. For the printed book, you see the whole digital book and approve it before it is printed, and until then the order can be cancelled free of charge. The delivery cost and time are shown before you pay, and if we make a mistake, our guarantee applies. When you are ready, start your book.

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