Blog Book

Now that Jessee's posted her last post, I've put the finishing touches on the "blog book." And so, with this, we're officially bringing the blog to a close. I've uploaded the book to blurb.com, and it's now available for printing. It's quite expensive (sorry!), but the price isn't up to us. It's determined by the size of the book. And we reached the maximum allowable length of 440 pages! The book itself is supposed to be quite nice though, with fully professional printing and binding. It should be a proper coffee table book with many large, full color pictures. Preview the content below:

If you like it, you can order a copy directly from the printer:
South Caicos Island by Brett Matulis & Jessica Moyer

Blog Book

Over the last five days or so I've been hard at work formatting the blog to be printed as a book. I found an independent publishing company that will print as few as 1 book at a time for a reasonable price (http://www.blurb.com/). The blog is great to have, but you can't hold it and it feels somewhat impermanent. Even though the electronic version will be hosted online indefinitely, I thought it would be nice to have a bound copy when our time here finally ends.

Blurb even provides free design software for the layout. It's somewhat buggy and can be slow, but it does the job. It'll be printed in full color with all the text and photographs. Obviously dynamic elements like videos and external links won't work, but it will include references so they can always be found.

Arranging the layout for printing is a hugely time consuming task (5 days of work has only gotten me up to August!), but I think it will be worth it in the end. Fortunately, I've been able to break it up with exciting things like diving with a Hammerhead!