In my quest to try out different photobooks.....

.....my quest has been stopped short. About a month ago I decided to put together photobooks of our worldly travels. I wanted our future children to look through these books (as I did as a youngin') and marvel and what their parents have seen and done. I want to inspire them to travel as well. So I started out at Shutterfly the site that we did our parent wedding albums. I put together our "London, Paris, and Amsterdam" trip. The pictures came out pretty good and I liked the tools they provided. From what I remembered I was able to save my work and return to it on a later date. Uploading pictures was quick and painless.

So for our Spain trip I decided to try out Snapfish. I started on this new journey very excited. I was initially turned off by the uploading process. Not only was there a limit of how many I can upload at one time but I had to sit there and wonder when it would finish. With Shutterfly it actually shows you the countdown and so far I can upload as many pictures as I please. Once I got past that initial annoyance I proceeded to put together the book. The options were decent and it wasn't too hard to navigate. I did notice that even though I could save my book there was no indication that I could log out and come back to it another day. Since I couldn't devote an afternoon to it I just closed my laptop to let it sleep until the next day.

On Day 2 I went back to work. I proudly had reached about 30 pages when I had to print something. I took my laptop upstairs to turn on the printer and print some documents. While returning to the living room I had closed my laptop for easier carrying. When I opened my laptop for some reason Snapfish was saving my book,even though I had done that prior to going upstairs. Next thing I know the site takes me to their homepage. I frantically look around for the book in my account but can't find it. I even had Ray look. I lost it! I am so mad! All that work for nothing. Nothing!

So I say "Screw you!" to Snapfish. I'm back to Shutterfly. Besides, Shutterfly just sent me a coupon for $10 off so even more reason to abandon Snapfish.