I am really happy with the results of our wedding photo books from Shutterfly, despite the bad delivery I wrote about here.  I made the 8.5″ x 11″ hard cover photo books with 20 pages.  The template is user friendly and provides a lot of different layout options for photos and text.  The print quality was what I expected, and everything was the same as it appeared on the screen.  I also liked the fact that we had the option to write text on the spine of the book.

Unfortunately, some of the layouts do not have the flip view, so I was not able to have them on side-by-side pages.  Also, the 1st page starts on the right (left is blank) and the 20th page ends on the left (right is blank if you do not pay for additional pages).  I figured that the two blank pages would be the same type of material; however, the blank 21st page is the same texture as the 20th page because the 22nd page has the Shutterfly logo printed on it.  After the 22nd page, the next blank page is the same texture as the blank page before the 1st page.  So basically, there was a random blank 21st page.  Had I paid for the additional page 21, I wonder if the Shutterfly logo would still be on page 22.

full photo hard cover

layout

back cover

At the time, the specials were buy 1, get additional at 50% off and free shipping.  Cost breakdown:
1 x $34.99 = $34.99
8 x $34.99 x 50% = $139.96
Tax = $14.34
Shipping = $0
Total = $189.33 (approx $21/book)

I think they turned out fantastic, and we hope our relatives enjoy them!