Solentro - make your own photo book or posterReviews of solentro.com

Found Solentro while looking for book publishers. It took me a about 15 mins to figure out how to use their system to create a book, but once I did it smooth. Once my creation was complete, and I went to have it priced, it was straight forward. Pricing was a little high, but I went ahead and made the purchase to see how the books would turn out. Received the book in about a week and half and it was amazing! Still a little pricey but it turned out greats. So the pricing is the only reason for my 4 rating.

The book turned out great. I made a journal of when my son was born premature and in the NICU for 107 days. The book was a good mix of text that I had written previously interlaced with images as he progressed in the hospital. I knew I had a lot of text to copy and past into the book and Solentro met my needs. The final quality of the gloss hardback book was great. 4 Stars because: 1) The word/image template layouts are limited. It's great you can customize your own, but some guides to placement would help. Also would like a good choice of page layout/backgrounds as well as including stickers/captions/labels and free-text options 2) Some images will not be the right resolution in which case it get's a "warning" triangle. The preview available for such types of images won't show you what you actually will get if you read the Solentro disclaimer. Luckily my images turned out as expected but this feature made me nervous 3) Previewing a page is tedious. You have to open up the text and then select preview. Otherwise you have to preview starting from page 1 and selecting the page number you want to go to. There should be a button on the book preview where you can select a page and preview right from there 4) Being a U.S. customer, I didn't realize this was a company in Sweden until I was ready to place an order hoping to get it in time for Mother's day. I was hoping for more transparent shipping details, like estimate time for arrival upon placing my order. Not until I received a fedEx tracking number did I know I'd be getting the book 2 weeks later

My experiences have been very satisfactory. I “lost” my draft a couple of times but the support staff was swift to help me. Since I started using your service, prices have continued to climb. Understandable. I will check other sources before I produce another book.

I was absolutely delighted with your service and the quality of the product! The site was very user friendly and I look forward to using your company again in the future. I provided 4 stars, for what I normally would consider a 5 star review. I attribute this to the fact, I wasn't permitted to obtain the discount for ordering two books. I had to send the books to, two different addresses. I sent an email prior to ordering, inquiring where on the order could the second address be listed. I received a timely response, informing the order would need to be placed separately. There was no mention that in doing so, I could not obtain the discount. I only learned this in placement of my order. As, stated before, the experience was excellent, and I will use again, but I was disappointed not to obtain the two for discount price.

It was a bit expensive but the final product looked very nice. I do wish the that proofreading and text layout tools were a bit more robust.

I made a book for my daughter's 30th birthday. Making it personal with all her favorites in the 1st year of her birth year along with events and price of things that happened that year. #1 songs each year top movie, tv.. put pictures in of every year of her life. It came out so great! I was really impressed. Ship when they said it would arrive. My only complaint was it was not user friendly. When you change font size kept adding pages. Trouble getting it back threw off picture templets when changing to writing. But it was worth it! Loved it!

Generally liked Solentro. Publishing cost surprised me, higher than I expected.

I LOVED THE BOOK, AND SO DID MY FRIENDS. THE TEXT AND PICTURES LOOKS GREAT. GOOD JOB ! FUN BOOK TO HAVE