Best format for family history books?

I am about to adapt into iBooks format a series of short biographies I have written about various ancestors. The books will be for private distribution to family and friends.
I have experimented with the Basic, Modern, Classic, Craft and Biography formats but none seems to correspond exactly to what I am looking for.
My content would consist typically of text (not more than 20,000 words), family-style photos, a few maps and a few MP3 snippets of songs.
Before plunging into the adaptations, I thought I would look for advice on this forum.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me, especially those of you who may have produced similar type books.

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I have experimented with the Basic, Modern, Classic, Craft and Biography formats but none seems to correspond exactly to what I am looking for.
It's really up to you in terms of what look and feel you want. You could always start with one of the above templates, then adapt it to meet your needs. Regardless of the template, they all have access to the same widgets.
You can change lots of things in the original template if you wish. For example:
font size, style, alignment, colour
layout of textboxes and images
position and appearance/visiblility of locked features
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Thanks for all the advice. And I mean everyone.
Here is my latest dilemma.
Though 15 years old, the original Vhs's play beautifully. Aside from some (expected) glitches in the beginning or end of some of the shots, the video has not degraded appreciably. This is great news, as my cousin wanted to make back ups before degradation begins.
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I burned a DVD of the original capture, with no color correction, just the raw footage and the DVD did not look much better, so it wasn't the color correction.
Not satisfied, I made a copy from the FCP timeline straight to Vhs, (I should note, through the ADVC-110.) This looked significantly degraded as well.
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Whether as Finalcutter said, that this drive, even if unused, and put in a cool dry safe, might not function years down the line, makes it iffy, but what other choice is there for editable versions, unless I break the QT movies up into 20 minute chunks and archive them to over a hundred DVD's instead. Perhaps that is the safest solution, though certainly time consuming.
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