In my experience, BookWright is vastly superior to Lightroom's Book Module. (I enjoy doing this kind of detailed work, but many people don't, so be aware before committing yourself!) It came out great - although it did involve a lot of work on my part. I made a book last year using Blurb's BookWright: 240 pages (the maximum) with multiple photos from different sources, photo captions, multiple columns of flowing text, page headers, etcetera. However, for anything sophistiacted, I'd use other tools which can pull the photos from a folder I create by exporting from lrC (or that I create through the use of a Hard Drive style Publish Service) Especially nice if you just want to auto fill the book in date captured order. So, IMHO (based on long ago experiences), the LR book module is fine for the simple books where all the pages are basically the same and not much text beyond titles and or caption. However, I did use LR to manage the images that went into the book and I have those images in a Collection for that book as well as having a Keyword on those images indicating that they were included in the book. I used the Blurb tools for that last book rather then the LR Book module. I have only created one book since that time as I've transitioned to writing blogs of my travels rather than printing paper books. So, in general I was dissappointed that what you could do in LR when creating a book that was to be sent to Blurb for printing was not equivilent with what you could do with the Blurb tools outside of LR.
Later, when Adobe updated the book module I looked at it once more to see what they imporved and to be honest was underwhelmed. Then when Adobe put the Book module into LR, I tried my next book using LR but soon discovered that it was missing a fair number of features that I had been using. I used a few vender produced book layout tools in the ancient past, before LR had the Book Module and as I recall Blurb was one of them though I don't think it was called BookWright at the time. Have you run into issues with BookWright ?ĭo you have any recommendations based on your experience? My question - has anyone here used both LRC's Book and Blurb's BookWright ? I can see myself producing a file folder of sized jpegs (per chapter) exported from LRC, then dropping them onto a page. It will probably turn out to be more work, but increased flexibility usually brings more work. It will also accept jpegs that are dragged and dropped. A quick look at it says that it is a lot more flexible than Book. I have downloaded the latest Blurb's BookWright onto my pc. I started a simple design using the Book Module, but quickly ran into limitations with multiple photo sizes and varying text. The sources will include scanned old prints, slides, stills from Super 8 movies, and regular camera shots. I am about to undertake a new project of producing a much larger book, an intro, and Table of contents, Chapters, and with photos from different sources.
But it hasn't been updated for a while, as best I can tell.
It has been great for my travel books using my regular camera photos and minimum text. I have made a number of books using the LRC Book Module.
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