We publish human voices.
Scribora Publishing
Family Stories
The Heirloom Book
A real person helps shape your story, we archive it permanently, and you receive a hardcover book included with your order.
The Heirloom Book
A real person helps shape your spoken memories into a beautifully handcrafted book. Your stories are preserved with care and archived for future generations. You receive a hardcover heirloom book included with your order.
Your book will look and feel like this—personal, handcrafted, and shaped from the stories you tell in your own voice.
You choose the photos, speak your memories, and we turn it into a keepsake hardcover book your family can hold.
What's included
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Your order includes your hardcover book and our 30-day money-back guarantee.
How it works
We transcribe your recordings and gently edit them to make them easy to read without changing your voice. We hand-craft your design layout into elegant chapters, make sure name spellings are correct, carefully place your photos where they look best, and custom design your cover. When everything looks perfect, we publish and mail you your keepsake book.
What to expect
We take care of everything.
You get phone support and a real human Story Helper to guide you from the very first step. From beginning to end, we help you shape your book, including adding an optional introduction or preface. Everything we do is custom, careful, and one‑on‑one—the way a life story like yours deserves.
Your audio is safely archived.
Every story you record is automatically preserved in StoryCorps—the world’s largest nonprofit story archive. Your recordings remain yours and are downloadable anytime.
QR codes links at the beginning of each story.
We place a QR code at the top of each story chapter so when your family scans it, they can hear your voice tell each story as they read it. This links to your audio file that's archived in StoryCorps.
Hand placed photos.
Not every story has a photo. But many do. We can add photos throughout your book, as well as at the beginning and end. We work with you to place them where we think they will look best. If your photos need touch-up, we take care of that.
Beautiful, handcrafted cover.
We'll work with you to create a custom cover, including your photo on the front if you wish.
Clean, edited transcripts of your spoken stories.
As you tell each story, your transcript is privately visible for your review. You can easily make changes. Of course, we will also review your stories and help you edit where needed.
Complete publishable files.
When we’re done, you receive the fully formatted, publishable PDF files and the Kindle‑ready EPUB version. You could publish these anywhere, but we hope that you’ll let us publish your keepsake book for you. Unlike others, we don't hold your book hostage.
A free color hardcover copy.
We send you a beautiful hardcover copy of your book for free. We hope you will allow us to print additional copies for your family, but even if you self-publish, this copy is on us.
Your book published on Amazon.
We prepare your manuscript and cover, upload everything for you, and publish your premium hardcover book on Amazon so you and your family can order copies anytime. We can also publish the Kindle version for you. We do it all.
A quiet Amazon listing.
Your book won’t be marketed publicly, but it will always be findable—even decades from now—for future generations. If you allow us to publish it, each additional hardbound color copy (up to 200 pages) is just $59.
Archived online.
No one can guarantee "forever." But as long as the Library of Congress exists, and the Internet Archive continues, your stories will live online. Great-grandchildren should be able to find your stories.
This is a personal mission
Mary and I have 22 grandchildren. Their parents know our stories. But the grandkids are young. They don't know all the stories.
Our mission is to preserve legacies.
Let us care for your stories and legacy. We'll treat them as carefully as our own.
~Ken