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I do printed albums because it's easier. But I've had to give up perfectionism. I try to think better something not perfect than nothing at all. I do wonder if they will last as well, but I backup so figure it's ok. Also I give copies of yearly albums as gifts to grandparents. It's like another backup and really not doable time wise if you were doing your own albums.

But I totally get the real album thing! Our wedding album is that way. But I just can't on a regular basis.

Prints. I found albums I love and get prints all the time from shutterfly

Interesting.. I always did 4x6 prints with old school albums and recently converted to photobooks .. I'm surprised to hear many of you do old school style still. For now I'm thinking I will do a family yearly album or two photobook style but still print a bunch of 4x6's of my very favorites and keep them in a box.. I'm behind like 2 years though lol...

I do the old style album and just do a print of photos every 6 months and add to the existing album. I find it much easier than trying to get together a book because the time to put the prints in the sleeves is less than the time I would spend organising the photos into the book (I would want it formatted with some larger etc).

I've been doing both, the ones with actual photos I add cards from project life kits to add journaling, if I'm in the mood I'll get a little more fancy than that but it's pretty simple. I also do photos books from Shutterfly and I've found that the biggest advantage of those right now is I'm less worried about handing them to my daughter, I figure I easily have years of being able to reorder them. Plus, Shutterfly runs so many promos that I aim to keep them close to the standard 20 pages and then order when promos pop up letting me get the book for "free" plus $8 in shipping. At $8 it's not a hefty investment. They are definitely not the same quality as the more expensive places like artifact uprising but it's easy and inexpensive enough that I'm not worried about the cost.

Thats a really good point about having the prints.
I use chatbooks, and print photos with the shutterfly app when they have their free 100 print sales, but all the photos are just hanging out in their envelopes yet. I think I'd like to just get a nicer photo box.

@josina: Yeah, my problem is whenever I get those free prints deal, they just sit in an envelop forever too!

So I prefer albums. I use Chatbooks exclusively

@babybunnylove: Yes to this. The floppy disks that we used to use are no longer, cds/dvds will be out soon too, so how long are usb's going to last?!
Right now I have some photos on a back up drive (that won't last forever) and the rest on google photos, but that is such a mess and would take for-ev-er to organize.

ETA: An old classmate of mine created an email address for her daughter... she sends her an email once a year, and could also use that to send photos to as zipped folders?
I'm loving that idea now and may have to set this up!

chatbooks! i make our annual family albums and love that its one picture/page.. i dont have to stress about getting the photos the same style, white balance, ect.. i choose the hard cover edition and i think they are the perfect size!