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When you order a 30, 60, or 90 page book, it includes the following:

• A box with a prepaid label to ship us your papers, sent out to you within 24 biz hours
• Easy online portal to make your personalization choices
• Your choice of book cover colors
• Your choice of foil print for the book cover
• Two lines of foil print personalization on the book cover
• Preparation of your papers, including trimming, mounting, folding as needed
• Personal customer service
• Confirmation email when your papers have arrived to us
• Confirmation email when your book is finished and ready to ship
• Confirmation email with tracking information when your book ships

Binding the ORIGINAL papers you send us is our speciality.  It's what makes us completely unique to any other preservation service out there.  The appeal of our product is we bind the original artwork, schoolwork, certificates, etc.

That doesn't mean we cannot make copies for you if you want, such as to make duplicate books for other family members.  We offer scanning and printing service as well, for an additional fee.  Please see Scanning and Printing for those prices.

Sentiment Book:  30 pages

Keepsake Book: 60 pages

Chronicle Book: 90 pages**

A page is a piece of paper or a piece of artwork.  Smaller bits of artwork or notes that can fit onto one page will count as a page.  For example, if you have five sticky notes on one page, that's a page. 

** Please note that the maximum spine thickness of our book is 1.5 inches, which is typically 90 pages. However, we cannot fit more than 1.5 inches of paper into one book, regardless of the page count.  75 pages of thick, wavy, and voluminous artwork that is thicker than 1.5 inches total will require an additional book OR we can remove some items until it fits.  This doesn't happen often but it does happen.  This is why we ask you not to send paper plates, thick foam, thick cotton balls, beads, etc.

Our books accommodate pages up to 8.5 x 11.  If your pages are larger than that, we have a variety of things we can do to fit it into the book. 

Here are the services for oversized pages that are included with your book.

9x12 pages will be trimmed down to fit.  We trim each one by hand, looking at it to determine the best place to trim.  IF trimming would cause you to lose precious and important parts of the art piece, we can also fold it if it's not too thick to fold.  However, our goal is to trim, because folding increases the thickness of your book.

Over 9x12 up to 11 x 17 will be trimmed and folded as needed, but we are limited to the number of pieces we can fold, because folding increases the thickness of the book. 

• Sentiment 30 page book: includes 5 pages folded
• Keepsake 60 page book: includes 10 pages folded
• Chronicle 90 page book: includes 15 pages folded

Depending on the size and shape, our goal is to bind it as is.  We prefer to do that as often as possible so we aren't adding pages to your book.

If we cannot bind it as is, such as it's smaller than 1/2 a page, we can mount it onto the blank back of one of your other pages, or we can mount it to a fresh piece of paper if there is no available blank sides in your book. 

The odd shaped or smaller items still counts as a page, since they increase the overall thickness of the book.  If you have two or three small items that we are able fit within an 8 x 10 area, then those three items will collectively count as one page.

The short answer is yes and no.  Here is the longer answer:

We know how much you value greeting cards and we want to include them for you.  However, most store bought greeting cards are thick, so we have to open them flat and add an extender to them, which is time consuming, as well as it adds bulk to your book.  And, they don't turn very well (picture turning a page of cardstock, it's stiff). 

If you have 5 or fewer greeting cards that are super special to you, we will do our best to include them. If we cannot, we will return them to you.  The thinner they are, the better. 

If you have more greeting cards than that:

As of June 2022, we are no longer binding greeting card books unless specifically requested via email.  A lot of time is required to prepare the cards by hand.  If you would like a price quote, please email orders@4everbound.com to request a greeting card quote.

PHOTOS: 

If you have a few photos, such as a 5-10 8x10 or smaller, we can include those.  If you have more than that, we don't recommend our books as a replacement for photo albums.  However, we CAN make collages out of digital photos, and it's a great way to include a lot of photos in your book.  We can use the digital images you provide (have them scanned locally) or we can scan the photos for you. Scanning and/or collaging photos is an additional fee, plus the cost to print in color.  Collaging 6-8 photos onto a page and printing it saves a lot of space and you can fit a lot of photos into a book that way.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, TICKET STUBS, INDEX CARDS:

Newspaper articles, ticket stubs, index cards.:  Whatever fits onto one page counts as one page.  For example, we can fit 3 index cards on a page, so those 3 index cards count as one page, even if we are mounting them to the back of something else. 

Larger newspaper articles count as a page, and we can trim or fold them as necessary.

GREETING CARDS: 

We know how much you value greeting cards and we really want to include them for you.  However, we can only bind a few of them per book and they need to be on the thinner side without a lot of embellishment. If they are very thick and stiff or very dimensional, we probably cannot bind it.  If you just have a small number of cards in your book, we can probably include them.  We are no longer doing books of ONLY greeting cards.

If we determine that a certain page won’t bind well in the book, because in our judgment it’s too delicate and we’re concerned it might tear, or it has macaroni glued to it, or there are jewels glued in the binding area, we will pull that page out and return it to you with your finished book.  If you’re not sure, just go ahead and send it, but put a sticky note on it where we can see it.  If we can bind it, we will.  If not, we’ll return it with your book.

You don't have to bind everything all at once.  A lot of people start with just one or two books. Pick a grade or time period, sort through and pick your favorite pieces.  Once you make the decision to start, it really doesn't take too long to pick out 30, 60, or 90 pieces to create your book.  Many people find that ordering a kit motivates them to get started.

We have thousands of customers and books that have been shipped out and there has never been an issue, not once.  When you order, we send you a kit with shipping materials and a pre-paid shipping label with barcode and tracking.  Our headquarters is located in a safe and secure residential/commercial area and we are open when packages are delivered, so your package will not be sitting outside.  Our finished books are shipped via US Priority Mail with insurance and tracking, using USPS official packaging.

We ship using extremely reliable USPS Priority shipping with tracking and insurance, with a pre-printed address label with tracking barcodes.  You will be notified via email when your package ships, when it’s out for delivery, and when it has been delivered.  You’ll know exactly where it is every step of the way.

We are very excited to get you your book back as fast as possible!  We want you to enjoy it right away.  We also know how important these papers are to you and we handle them with great care.  We inspect your papers for any issues that may cause problems with binding, then we trim/fold/mount as needed.  We then create your cover, based on your online customizations. Your papers are inserted into the book cover and your book is then run through the binding machine by hand.  The pages are heat set with a professional grade bookbinding adhesive glue that creates a permanent bond with the cover.  Then we let it cure (cool and set) for at least 24 hours.  After curing, we package it carefully to ship back.  We will notify you via email as soon as your book ready to ship and you’ll receive all tracking information so you’ll know when it is due to arrive.  Our goal is to accomplish all this within one week of receiving your papers, but we won’t risk any mistakes with your precious papers by rushing the process.  Therefore, we ask you to set your expectation to two weeks, and we hope to get it there sooner.  

CHRISTMAS / GRADUATION RUSH:  December and May/June are our busiest months.  If you have a deadline to get your back back to give as a gift during  we strongly suggest getting your papers to us at least 4 weeks ahead of time.  We do hire additional help during our busy season but again, everything is done by hand.  In addition, mail slows down in December...so the earlier we get your project, the earlier we can get it out.  We like to have all Christmas orders shipped no later than December 15th.

RUSH DEADLINES:  Things happen, we get it.  If you need a book completed and shipped in less than two weeks, chances are good we can meet that deadline for you but we will need to charge a rush fee, depending on the scope of the work.  Please email orders@4everbound.com and let's talk.  We've never missed a deadline yet!

LETTERS:  If we are binding original letters or scanning and printing them, that process takes extra time.  That is a custom project that could take 2-4 weeks or longer, depending on the scope of the project.

If we can bind it, we can make it for you. 

Birthday, Wedding Anniversary, Graduation, or Retirement Books:  Have friends and family handwrite (or type) letters on 8.5 x 11 paper and then you can send it all to us to bind a very special book.  We can also help you add digital photos and create collages for you to include in the book.

Letters:  Many households have boxes of treasured letters.  We can bind the originals or we can scan them and print in either black and white or color, or we can do both.  Some people want books with the originals and then copies for other family members.  We've done collections of letters and documents as far back as 1897, including World War I and II.  Please contact us directly for a quote on binding your letters.  info@4everbound.com

Annual Christmas Letters:  Many families save annual Christmas or holiday letters and they make fantastic snapshots into family history.  We can bind the originals plus also scan and print color copies for you to give to family members.   Please contact us directly for a quote on binding your letters.  info@4everbound.com

Use your imagination or let us give you ideas:

Bridal Showers, Baby Showers, Retirement, Graduation, Memorials, Family Recipes, Family Ancestry, Short Stories and Poems.  We made a book with all the racing bibs a runner/cyclist had collected from all her races over the years.   Just email your idea to info@4everbound.com and let us create something custom for you.

PHOTOS:  Our books are not designed to be photo albums.  If you have a lot of photos you want to include in your 4everBound book, we can make collages out of digital photos and print those pages in color, for an additional fee.  Please contact us for a quote.  If you have a handful of photos, such as 8x10, 5x7, or 4x6 photos, please place them where you want them to go in the book and we will do our best to include them.  Anything we cannot include we will return.  Photos smaller than 8x10 should be placed in an envelope so they don't slide around when you ship your materials to us.

GREETING CARDS: 

We know how much you value greeting cards and we really want to include them for you.  However, we can only include a few of them per book and they need to be on the thinner side without a lot of embellishment. If they are very thick and stiff or very dimensional, we probably cannot bind it.  If you just have a small number of cards in your book, we can probably include them.  Anything we cannot include we will return.

As of June 2022, we are no longer doing books of ONLY greeting cards unless specifically requested via email.  They require a lot of time to prepare the cards.  If you would like a price quote, please email orders@4everbound.com to request a greeting card quote.