Moving an iPhoto 5 Book to another machine

HELP! I created a Book in iPhoto 5 on my iBook G4. When I finished and went to order the Book I was told I needed to upgrade to iLife 9 ($79!) to do this - after we had done hours worth of work. We have a MacBook running iPhoto 8. Is there any way to transfer the Book file to this machine and have it work with that version of iPhoto?
Thanks much. --BH

The only way to move a book is to move the library it is in
This can be done by connecting the machines together (network, firewire target mode, etc), by placing a copy of the library on an eternal hard drive and connecting the EHD to the other computer or any other way that you can move the entire library
You can duplicate the library and strip out everything except the book to make a smaller library to move - see Old Toad's tutorial #9 for specific details - http://toadstutorials.info/
LN

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