Make a love book online, written from your own story

To make a love book online is to build a personalized book about your relationship in your browser, then receive it as a digital file, a printed book or both. There is nothing to install and nothing to lay out by hand.

With Love Tales you do not fill in a template. You share your memories, and a personalized love book is written around them: how you met, what you built together and what you would say if you had ten chapters to say it.

The difference shows on the first page. A template book could be handed to any couple with the names swapped. A book written from your answers mentions the street you lived on, the dish that went wrong and the sentence one of you says every single morning.

When you create a love book online you are usually choosing between three formats. They differ in how much of the book is about your own relationship and how much work is left to you.

Each chapter covers one part of your relationship, in the order it happened. You are asked about it in plain questions, and your answers become the text and the scene that is drawn beside it.

You do not need an answer for everything. Skip what does not apply and spend your time on the two or three memories that matter most. A typical book moves through these moments:

A good love book maker lets you correct anything that does not sound like you before you order. That is what turns a generated draft into a custom love book you are proud to hand over.

Check this before you choose a tool. If the text is locked once it is generated, or if a character who does not look like your partner cannot be redrawn, you will end up giving a book you had to apologize for.

A digital love book is the fast option: it is ready about ten minutes after you finish your story, so it works for a gift you need tonight or for a partner who lives far away. You can send it by message or open it together on a screen.

A printed copy is the one that ends up on the shelf. It takes 6 to 10 business days with standard shipping, so order early for an anniversary or for Valentine's Day. Many people send the digital book on the day and let the printed one arrive as a second surprise.

Start three to four weeks before the date if you want a printed book in your hands. Sharing your memories takes most people 30 to 60 minutes, and it is worth leaving a day or two to reread the text and adjust the illustrations.

If you are later than that, you still have options. Express shipping takes 5 to 8 business days in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, and the digital book needs no shipping at all.

Most love books are made for a partner, and the occasion decides the angle. A love book for a boyfriend or girlfriend often covers the first years: the first message, the first trip, the moment it became serious.

For a husband or wife the book has more ground to cover, which is why it is a popular anniversary book. If you would rather list what you love about them than tell the story in order, the Why I Love You book is built for that.

Some people make one for a couple they love instead: parents reaching a milestone anniversary, or friends who are about to get married. In that case you write as the witness, and the books for couples page explains how to gather the details.

When you create your own love book, the quality of the result depends on what you put in. Three habits make the difference.

Most disappointing love books fail for the same few reasons, and all of them are easy to avoid once you know them.