Making a photo book from multiple albums

Hello.
I recently returned from week long trip and have created photo albums for each individual day (9 albums)
I now want to bring them all into 1 photo book but cannot seem to figure out how to do it. Do I have to just copy everything into one huge album?
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Matt

In case you might want to order a second copy of the book at a later date the following tutorial describes a way to archive the library containing just the photos in the book for easy retrieval: Old Toad's Tutorial #9a - Archiving an iPhoto 7/8 Book for Editing and/or Ordering at a Later Date. With this method you don't need to worry about losing the book due to removing photos from the library, deleting the book in the library, etc. I do it for every book I create and order.

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