Last week on this blog you read about turning your tweets into a PDF e-book with Twournal. A great upcoming service for Tweeters, Twournal lets you set your ever-growing stream of 140 character messages in stone.
But what if you’re a blogger?
Although blogs can’t be updated as quickly as tweets can, blogs usually contain more engaging content that needs more than just a quick scan. There are many bloggers out there with blogs already full of compelling thoughts, fun links, and eye-catching images.
As an online journal, a blog is a great way of looking back at what you’ve done or learned about in the past. Thus, it would be fitting to get that content into a format you can read as an e-book.
So how can you get your blog content into a PDF?
BlogBooker is a free online service that works with LiveJournal, WordPress and Blogger. It can convert all your blog postings into one handy PDF.
Once in PDF format, you can print it up, email it, share it, publish it—basically anything you can do with a PDF. It’s a great way to get your blog postings offline and on your computer. When sharing with others, all they’ll need is a PDF viewer to read it like an e-book.
The process of getting that content into the PDF format with BlogBooker is simple. Essentially, all it takes is a file upload to the site. The most technical thing you’ll probably have to do is obtain an exported XML file from your blogging system to submit to BlogBooker. Once you get started, BlogBooker walks you through the process.
A few things to note about the resulting PDF:
-Your blog content will be organized chronologically according to month and year.
-The PDF file you receive will not come with any security controls on it. This means that the people with whom you share your file can do anything with its content: print, copy and paste, rearrange pages, annotate, etc.
-Comments are also included provided they’re included within the blog’s exported XML file. Make sure all comments have been moderated or you might get spam comments in there as well!
If you’d like a real professional hard cover copy of your blog, BlogBooker lists a few services which can publish it for you from the PDF itself. The resulting PDF will be of high enough quality to produce a professionally printed version. Otherwise, you can simply print the PDF on your home printer.
To get an idea of what your blog will look like in the PDF format, BlogBooker also provides a link for finding online samples of blogs that have been turned into the PDF format.
So check it out for yourself.
Happy blogging!
