Making photo books

Since Lightroom lacks a book-making feature like iPhoto and Aperture, I wonder what others have used to make books and what you recommend. I'm aware of several online book-making services, like blurb.com.

Ross,
I use Yophoto in the UK. You download their small application, drag and drop your chosen images into the pages and that's it. There are many type of book option, page layout options available and even some editing options in the application and for the price the end results are really quite good. I chose the leather backed landscape book because most of my images are of landscapes and the page size of the book is better geared to maintaining the original format of my images. I found a lot of the competition had strange page size options - ok for snap shots etc but would have meant a lot of cropping and resizing had I taken this route. Delivery to Germany was also very quick.

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