You make a good point about context and information. Part of the work in making a book is writing all the captions to tell the story. I think we've all looked t

You make a good point about context and information. Part of the work in making a book is writing all the captions to tell the story. I think we've all looked through a box of old photos from our childhoods and wondered, "who is that?" "where was this taken and when?" The books we've made through Blurb look high quality to me. They offer several choices for the type of paper at different price points, but I didn't do any research on that. We went with Blurb because it has some relationship with Flickr for pricing and an interface to import our photos from those already organized albums (see "Prints" from the drop-down menu on Flickr). It used to have a decent web app for creating a book. Now you have to download and install their Windows-only desktop app, but it's good.