Text message book or screenshot photo book?
A photo book of screenshots suits a short exchange that you want to look exactly as it did on the phone. A typeset book suits a whole conversation, because years of messages will not fit as pictures.
What is the difference?
A screenshot photo book prints pictures of your phone screen, a few to a page, in a photo book you lay out yourself. A text message book takes the words out of the conversation and sets them as pages of type, like a novel, with each person's name beside what they wrote.
When is a screenshot photo book the better choice?
When the exchange is short and the look of it is the point: one evening's messages, the bubbles, the reactions, the time at the top of the screen. A few dozen screenshots are quick to take, and any photo book printer will take them.
When is a typeset book the better choice?
When you want all of it. A long conversation runs to more messages than anyone would screenshot. An export gets every message at once, each with its date, and a page of type holds far more than a picture of a screen does.
Is there a book with the words and the photos?
The Anthology. You pick the moments that mattered and add a photo of yours to each, and it prints them side by side in a landscape hardcover, in color, 48 pages long, for $99. The Unabridged is words only and marks where a photo was sent.
Can read receipts make a book from screenshots?
Yes. After you choose your book, pick Screenshots, tick the box and upload them, up to 100, 20 at a time. They are read by Claude, Anthropic's model, only if you tick the box that says so, and we don't keep the screenshots. The messages in them are set as type. They are not printed as pictures.
For a longer conversation, contact us. A person on our team takes the screenshots by email, puts them in order and sets up your book with you, free. That person sees what you send.
What does it cost?
The Unabridged, every message set as a novel, is $49 as a paperback and $89 as a hardcover. The digital edition is $19. US shipping is free.
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If You Want It As A Book
read receipts prints the whole conversation as a typeset book, every message in the order it was sent. You look through every page before anything prints. Or start with the free receipt.