IPhoto vs Aperture for new Book

I recently purchased Aperture and in the past I have made 3 books in iPhoto.
I am creating a new book and I looked at both Aperture and iPhoto and, to me, it seems that iPhoto is much easier and presented in a cleaner way.
Aperture does seem to offer more layout possibilities.
The new book is not a "for sale" item just a family and friends fun book.
Any thoughts on the ease and quality of the two applications for my needs.
And the benefits and pitfalls of each of the Apps.
Thanks
Greg

The benefits and pitfalls are just the inverse of each other.
iPhoto is easier, Aperture is more complex, iPhoto is less flexible, Aperture is more so. That's pretty much it in a nutshell.
Only you can know how much time and effort you want to put into the project, how much learning you want to do.
Regards
TD

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What?
Of course a JPG can include text. Like you can insert text in a picture in photoshop. ANd then save the picture with text as a JPG.
I didn't make myself clear. JPEG files are just pixels. Of course they can contain anything. But the "text" in a JPEG file is not editable as text after it's been saved as a JPEG.
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Only folks who have issues post here, so the few that have had a poor experience will, but the many who have been very pleased tend not too - it's for folks who have issues, after all. That said, I've seen very few complaints about the quality of the books and I note that folks usually have them quickly resolved by Apple. The key would seem to be time: order your book in good time so that if there is an issue you have time to have it dealt with.
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