Blurb Plug-in

Using LR 4 w/ Blurb (album design) Plug-in. Am at the very end of the process with 33 blank, unusable pages at the tail end of my design (default was 90 pages, I only needed 57), any chance I can get rid of these?

Jackie-
I'm using LR5 but I don't think this part of the book module is any different.
First - the default isn't 90 pages, it's only a few pages and when you add images with auto fill, the pages are created or you and "insert" new pages...but that's for the next book.
It's quite easy to remove the blank pages. Just select them and go (mac) Edit>remove pages or ⌘+shift+Delete (similar keystroke in windows)
Cheers,
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