You two have been writing a book for years.
Msgpress turns your messages and your photographs into a hardcover you can put in their hands.
Chapter four
The Umbrella Year
It is absolutely pouring and I forgot a coat again.
Stay exactly where you are.
I am the one outside with the terrible umbrella.
You walked twenty minutes in this.
Nineteen. I ran the last bit.
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We should do the rain more often.
Only if I get to pick the umbrella.
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A sample spread. The people, the messages and the chapter are invented.
What ends up on the page.
Three things go into the book, and you choose every one of them. Nothing is scraped, nothing is guessed.
The messages you would never delete
The first night you talked until it got light. The argument you both got wrong. The plans, the nicknames, the two words you send when the day has been long. You choose what goes in and what stays private.
The photographs that go with them
The kitchen, the coast, the bad haircut year. Every picture is placed on its own page with real margins and a printed caption, so it reads as a photograph rather than an attachment.
Chapters, so it reads like a book
Years and seasons become chapters with titles and a printed contents page. The book opens at the beginning and ends somewhere, instead of scrolling forever.
The book itself.
Not a photo book with screenshots dropped into it. A hardcover made by a book printer, meant to be picked up and put down again.
- Hardcover, PUR bound
- A stitched-feel binding with a printable spine, so the title reads on the shelf between everything else you own.
- Matte laminate cover
- The boards are laminated matte rather than gloss, with the title in foil.
- Three sizes
- A4, A5, or the 21 by 21 cm square.
- Up to 300 pages
- Room for years of a conversation, not a highlight reel of a good week.
- Printed on HP Indigo presses
- Made by our print partner, a specialist book printer rather than a photo lab.
- Made near you
- Our print partner runs facilities in the UK, EU, US, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Sweden, and ships worldwide.
What early access means.
Plainly, because there is nothing to buy yet.
First look at the samples
We are making sample books now. You see them before they go anywhere else, cover, spine, pages and all.
A say in what we build
Four quick questions after you join, and we read every answer. The book you would make shapes the one we make first.
The first invitations
When the first books can actually be made, this list is asked before the page is.
What you are not committing to.
No payment, no card, and no chat to upload. Nothing is for sale yet, we have not set a price, and joining does not place an order. One click in any email takes you off the list for good.
Somebody has to print it.
Join the early-access list and we will show you the first couples samples as they come off the press.
The messages are still there. They are just not something you can hold.