Apple’s photo books

We’ve used Apple’s photo printing service to create books for our vacations for years; they’ve been a way to both preserve our memories in a more concrete form (digital photos have a lot of advantages, but they’re not really great for pulling out and reminiscing over) and share photos with my parents. So I was sad to hear that Apple is doing away with its own service and instead supporting extensions for 3rd parties. Yes, in theory this approach will open up more choices for creating books. But Apple was a known quantity (with known quality); I didn’t have to worry about how the photo books will turn out.

Since the end date is the end of this month I created one last book for our July Alaska trip. I might use the photos from our Kings Canyon trip to test out an alternative; sadly it’s unlikely the available alternatives will offer free trials…