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Years of you and them are sitting in that chat. Drop the export here and it comes back as a story: every message read, the moments worth keeping picked out, and chapters written around your own messages. £9 for the digital copy, read it today. £49 to hold it, printed and bound.

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How to export your chat →Read a whole book first →
Six taps in WhatsApp, about a minute. Choose “Attach media” for the photographs.
What happens next

From this page to their hands, start to finish.

Seven steps. You are in control at every one of them, and you see the whole book before a page is printed.

The digital copy£9, and it comes off the hardcover.
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    You choose your exportNowThe zip stays on this device. Only the messages, and the photos your book uses, are sent, locked in this browser first with the key from your private link.
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    It reads the lot and finds the story10-20 minutesWhat a good editor would do, if a good editor could read six years of messages in a quarter of an hour: work out where one era ends and the next begins, spot the running joke nobody can explain any more, and pick the moments worth keeping from the thousands that aren’t. The reading is done by AI, and only by AI. Nobody at Thread & Bound can open your chat.
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    You get the digital copy, and read it today£9Every chapter written around your own messages, printed word for word, in the voice you picked, with your photographs, the league table and the awards. The finished book, the same day, yours to keep and to change as often as you like.
The hardcover£49, less the £9 you’ve paid, plus the delivery you choose.
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    You have it printed and bound£40 moreThe same book as an object, to give. Extra copies are £35 each in the same print run.
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    You read it and change anythingTake as long as you likeClick any message to take it out. Cut a photo, a whole moment, or a person who’d rather not be in it. Change the title, add a dedication. Nothing is printed and nothing is final.
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    You approve itWhen you’re readyThat exact file goes to the printer, word for word as you left it. Nobody here opens it. Changes close, and you get an email when it’s posted.
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    Printed, bound and postedAbout three weeks in allTwo to three days on the press: 7 × 10 in hardcover, full colour, up to 100 pages, your photographs at full resolution. Then tracked to your door, or ten to fourteen days start to finish with express.
What a chapter reads like

The opening of one chapter from a golf society’s book, one of our own samples, so no customer’s chat is on show. Yours is written the same way, from your own messages, in the voice you pick.

Chapter one · the dry voice

Not Polesgate Again

The season starts the way it always does: someone suggests the usual course, someone else vetoes it on principle, and Fitzy books whatever place serves proper pints. Nobody's handicap can be trusted and everybody knows it.

By the end of the thread they've picked a venue, priced it, and mostly forgotten why.

Greenacres, 65 a Head

Polesgate gets vetoed, Fitzy sets his one condition, and the venue sorts itself out.

Maccaright lads february fixture is pencilled in for the 15th. polesgate again?

Baznot polesgate mate im sick of that track

Fitzyill book wherever serves proper pints after

Bazhes right though. we could go greenacres

Maccagreenacres is dear though. 65 a head

Stuill pay

Stutrying to get back in your books

Fitzygreenacres then. ill sort the booking

Bazwait i thought fitzy was skint this month

Fitzyim skint but im booking. youre all buying rounds

Booking confirmed. Rounds not included.

The messages are printed exactly as they were sent. Four voices to choose from: dry, warm, savage or tender. Hear all four on the website.

Questions people ask
What does it cost?
£9 for the digital copy, which you read on screen today: every chapter, written in full. £49 to have it printed and bound, and the £9 comes off, so £40 more. Delivery from £4.95, chosen at the checkout. Extra copies are £35 each.
My chat is enormous. Is that a problem?
No. The biggest we've made a book from had 26,746 messages. Long chats take a few minutes longer to read.
Do I need the photos?
Only if you want them in the book. Export “with media” and we'll ask your browser for the handful the book uses. The zip itself never leaves your device.
Who else can read my chat?
Nobody here. It's locked on your device with a key that only exists in your private link, and we don't keep that key.
What if the chat has people who'd rather not be in it?
You read and edit the whole book before it prints, and you can take out any message, photo or person.

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