I used Blurb to make a book with my vacation photos and I was really happy with the final result. I didn’t end up using their templates, I designed the whole thing in InDesign and placed entire pages as images. The only thing that I didn’t really like was how the book block was attached to the hard bound spine. The white paper looks a bit flimsy, but the dust jacket covers most of that. The paper quality is ok and the images turned out nice, not super crisp but really decent. I also wish they had a choice for the color of the book cloth on hard bound, it is black.

I hope that helps, I couldn’t find any helpful reviews of their books when I was deciding.

thanks for that review....from what i gather from other reviews on the net, people seem to have good things to say about it (although a few have had dissapointing results)..i suppose the only way to find out is to try myself...i reckon designing in InDesign & exporting each page as a hi-res jpeg is probably the best option