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> Hi,
>
> I want to make a cookbook to give away around the holidays to family
> members. Has anyone else done this? My plan is to create it with Word
> and then take it to someplace like Kinkos to make copies, laminate the
> cover and bind it. I haven't checked their prices out, but I am
> guessing between $5 - $10 a copy. Are there cheaper alternatives that
> might be semi-professional looking through other types of printing
> services or at home? I have a reasonably good color printer but other
> than that, just home office equipment.
>
>
> Birgit

Yep. Have fun, just start writing and pretty soon the boor will take on a
"life of its own" The difficult part will be where to stop.

What you may wart to conceder is the final format. I purposely choose 2 sided
printing 3 hole punched - That way the recipients could punch and add their
favorite recipes into the "notebook" I used a white book and inserted the title
page into the plastic sheet on covering the front. That approach and the number
of pages will increase the cost. I ended up with dividers for the different
sections and a little less than 300 pages. 8 1/2 x 11. I think on the last
printing it ended up being about $25.00 per copy. To me the advantage is/was
that the book is "living" and can be added to at any time. That was just my
choice - it doesn't make it right.

If you go to a POD (Publish on Demand) house and perfect biding you'll save
about 1/2 to 1/3 the cost.

Enjoy,

Dimitri