Your Birthday Photo Book

A birthday year photo book is a personal book about one year of your life — from one birthday to the next. It isn't the calendar year: it's your own year, the chapter you lived between two birthdays, told in photos in the order it happened.

Your autobiography, one year at a time

Think of it as a visual autobiography. Where you went, who you were with, what changed, what you were proud of, and the ordinary days that made up your year. Make a new book on every birthday, and over the years they become the story of your life — one volume per year.

What to put inside

• the people who mattered this year — family, friends, a partner
• trips, celebrations and new places
• milestones: a new job, a new home, a move, a big achievement
• everyday moments you'd otherwise forget

From Facebook or your own photos

Connect Facebook and choose the period between your two birthdays, or upload photos from your phone, computer or camera — or use both. We pick the best shots, remove duplicates and design the book automatically, so it's ready to print right away. You can still change anything if you like.

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Create your birthday year photo book →

Yes. For a milestone birthday — 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th or any other — you can make a decade photo book: ten years of someone's life in one book, leading up to the big day.

Ten years in one book

A decade book tells the story of the years before the milestone — the people, the trips, the celebrations and the everyday moments, in the order they happened. The cover is made for the occasion, with the age on it — for example, Celebrating 50 or The 40 Milestone — and you can change the title if you like.

Collect photos from everyone

The best decade books have photos from many people. Ask family and friends to send you their photos, then upload them all together — we put them in chronological order and remove duplicates. If the birthday person has years of photos on Facebook, you can make the book from Facebook too.

Make it a surprise

Plan for about 2–3 weeks from order to delivery, so start collecting photos a month before the party. The book arrives printed and bound, ready to give.

Making a book about your own year, from one birthday to the next? See what a birthday year photo book is.

Create a milestone birthday photo book →

Plan for about 2–3 weeks from order to delivery: 1–2 days of moderation, about 5 business days of printing and up to 7 business days of shipping to the US. For Christmas, order by early December; for a birthday or anniversary, at least 3 weeks before the date.

Yes. You can order several copies of the same book in one order, or reorder it later from My Orders. One order goes to one address, so to send a copy to someone else — for example, to grandparents — place a separate order with their address.

From 23 to about 1,770 photos. The number of pages (from 23 to 295) depends on how many photos you have: each page holds one photo or a collage of up to six.

• Size: 21 × 21 cm (8.3 × 8.3 in), square
• Hardcover with matte laminate, 2.5 mm thick
• Pages: 200 gsm glossy paper
• From 23 to 295 pages, up to about 1,770 photos
• The title and year are printed on the spine

Your book comes with a cover designed automatically, so you don't have to change anything. If you want to, open your book and click Edit Cover below the cover. There you can change the title, the author name and the year, choose another cover style, and replace or crop the cover photos. Click Apply changes to save.