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Another wonderful holiday idea is to gather all your photographs. I tried this myself, but it was too much work and time. Family Free Magazine has a profile on scanmyphotos.com and we bought a prepaid box. Get this; 1870 pictures scanned to dvd for just $99.95. This included all shipping charges. Just as promised, we placed the order and actually received the prepaid box the next day. The next part took a few days, to gather all the photos. But, after packing it in the box it was mailed off and we got it back 3 days later, all ready for watching.

They also have specials on their photo books from the scanned pictures, but have not tried that yet.

Carol L, San Diego, Calif

Miss Daffodil,

Just for kicks I put one together myself to see if it would be worth getting. Maybe this info will help some other people too!

The book that is discounted is a 5×7 size as previously stated. It comes with 20 pages plus a cover. You can purchase additional pages (a front and back) for $1.49 each.

On each page, you have the ability to choose between different backgrounds, borders, and page layouts - anywhere from 1 to 9 photos per page, depending on the layout you choose. Obviously the fewer images per page means each one will be larger.

So just for entering the code you automatically get 50% off the price of each book (before shipping, which is very reasonable.) But it gets better! I decided I was going to give each set of our parents one of these books as part of their Christmas gifts. Imagine my surprise when I saw a note that each additional copy of the book gets another 25% off! And yes, it does let you do both discounts at once.

So for my three photobooks, plus standard shipping to me, my final total is $21.20!!!

My only word of caution is to remember that these books are 5×7 in size. Go find something at your home that IS 5×7 to give you an idea. Putting 9 images on a single page seems like a good idea to maximize the number of images you can include, but they’ll wind up being thumbnails when all is said and done. If you can stick to 20 5×7s, then this would be a great way to go. Otherwise, it might be best to look at larger photobooks.

HTH!

(cont). i mean, i read not so good reviews from a post elsewhere in regards to the quality of their photo books.

I’ve used snapfish for ages…. for whatever reason the last few purchases have gotten lost in the mail & snapfish has had to resend the order. My advice- just go with the fedex delievery. That’s what I’ve had to start doing.