Pick your book from the shelf to get started. Its first question is already waiting for you, and what you write here becomes its first page.
Each answer gets its own page, set in type made for reading, with room for photos and the line worth pulling out. Keep the finished book as a print-ready PDF and print it at home or at any print shop.
Write your first pageStories from Grandma · for Eleanor
I can't wait to show you how to fold dumplings the way my mother folded them, seven pleats, no more.
You will be terrible at it the first year. So was I. What I hope you teach me: how to sit on the floor and not be in a hurry to get up.
— Grandma
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Tap Speak your answer and talk. The words write themselves into the answer as you go, and the recording is kept with it. In the printed book, a code beside the answer plays it back, so the stories keep the voice that told them.
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Tell your first storySpeaking
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My mother folded them with seven pleats, no more. You will be terrible at it the first year. So was I.
After your first answer we'll ask if you'd like one. Say yes, and a question arrives at 7am your time. Hit reply to tell it, photos welcome, and it goes straight into the book. One click stops them.
This Saturday's question for Grandma's book
What did your kitchen smell like on the mornings you were happiest?
Hit reply and write your answer, as long or as short as you like. Attach photos and they'll go in the book beside your words.
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Each book is one voice. Yours, and every one written through your link, stands together in one library for the person they're all for: a grandpa's, an aunt's across an ocean, the neighbour's who became family.
We never assume who belongs.
Founder pricing, for each child's library. Every plan prints as many PDFs as you like.
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$5a month
$55once, for good
Our best value: what 11 months would cost, and never another bill.
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2 books for every child are free, with no card, so you hold a finished book first.
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You see the total before you pay, and get an emailed receipt. Monthly cancels anytime from your library.
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Stop paying and nothing is taken away: every book stays readable and downloadable as a PDF.
Finished books are print-ready PDFs: print at home or at any print shop. Questions before you pay? Write to hello@ourfamilybook.org.
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Write one page and seeIt waits on this device while we email you a code. Once you're in, it opens as the first answer in your new book, ready to save. Your words stay on this device until then.
Yes. Tap Speak your answer and talk: the words appear as you speak, and the recording is kept with the answer. In the printed book, a code beside it plays the recording.
One question every Saturday at 7am your time, only if you say yes. Reply to answer, photos welcome, and it goes into the book. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe.
No. They open the link, say who they are to the person the book is for, and start answering. Their draft saves as they write, and the same device takes them straight back to it.
Only you, and the people you send a link to. Links are long and unguessable, and nothing is listed or searchable publicly.
Every finished book is a print-ready PDF. Print it at home or at any print shop — the pages are set for it. We don't sell printed copies ourselves yet.
Nothing you wrote is taken away. Every book stays readable, printable and downloadable as a PDF, and the first 2 books on each child's shelf stay yours to keep writing. The others are read-only until the library is unlocked again. Paying $55 once means you never have to think about it.
You do. The words and photos belong to the family who wrote them, and the PDF you download is yours to keep, copy, and print as many times as you like.
One question, a few minutes. The rest of the book can wait until you're ready.
