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title: Day 9 - favorite memory
date: 2023-05-17T15:46:52Z
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[Prompt 9/20](https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/15/day-9-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/)

_Tell us about your favorite memory that includes WordPress or the WordPress community. Post your response on a WordPress website and link it in the comments._

There are many, but one stands out more than others.

When I used to work at an agency, we once had a meeting at a large financial institution and a request was made from one high-flying trader:

‘Our blog (WordPress) …. can we turn it into a book’

Well as it happened my colleague had previously worked [on something](https://github.com/felixcohen/Bookler) that would take a HTML file and output a PDF. I had contributed some of the code, mostly around [theming and CSS](https://github.com/felixcohen/Bookler/blob/master/public/print.css) (we used a library called [PrinceXML](https://www.princexml.com) that allowed you to use HTML & [CSS](https://github.com/felixcohen/Bookler/blob/master/public/print.css) to generate the PDF).

So we were able to say with pretty high confidence, yes, yes we can make a book out of your blog.

And so it happened; we set up a special WordPress template to output the entire blog in one page, saved it as .html and then put it through Bookler to generate a PDF. With that we could take it to something like [Lulu](https://www.lulu.com) and get back a paperback book delivered. I had to figure out how to get an ISBN, but managed that somehow. 

It’s even, and I have no idea how, present on [Amazon](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bond-Vigilantes-Celebrating-Interest-Commentary/dp/0957134002).

![Photo of the inside of a book generated from a blog](https://i0.wp.com/dogwonder.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_8496.jpeg?resize=640%2C640&ssl=1)