Questions, answered.

Yes. As long as the emails are still in someone's inbox and the photos still live in an album or on a phone, the process is the same. Age changes nothing about how we organize them, and the guided export works on a ten-year-old Gmail account the same way it works on a fresh one.

It does. The illustrated walkthrough covers Gmail because most missionaries have at least one family who used a Gmail address to receive all the missionary's letters. But we accept email exports from any provider. If you don't have anyone in the family who used a Gmail address to receive all of the letters, tell us what email provider you use and we'll send you a custom guide for that provider.

Start anyway. Fill out the form and we'll email you a Fieldbound email address. Your missionary copies it on their letters home and shares the Google Photos album with it, so everything reaches us as the mission happens. We follow up shortly before the missionary is expected home to make sure we have every letter and photo, then build the book.

At Fieldbound, a flat $179 if you design the pages yourself or $199 if our team curates a first draft for you, for up to 250 pages, plus $9.99 shipping. Longer books add just 50¢ a page. Other services advertise $99 to $249 and most add around 70 cents per extra page — from as few as 80 pages — so a full two-year mission often costs $200 to $345 elsewhere.

The flat price covers up to 250 pages, which fits the large majority of missions. If a mission runs longer, it stays a single book — we simply add 50¢ for each page beyond 250. That is a fraction of what other services charge, and they often start metering from as few as 80 pages.

Sharing the letters and photos takes about ten minutes of your time. Your organized book is usually waiting in the editor within two days. Most families finish their pages inside a week, and printing and shipping take about ten days more.

We download the originals at full resolution and print on premium color stock. If a photo is too small to print sharply at the size you've placed it, the editor flags it before you order, so there are no surprises in the box.

Yes — two ways, with every book. You get a searchable digital PDF, and a private online flip-book link you can share with family who can't be at the homecoming: they open it in a browser and turn the pages like the real book. Both come alongside the printed hardcover, and both make the mission easy to share far away and easy to search years later.

You, and the people you invite. Your missionary's words and photos are stored privately, encrypted in transit and at rest. We never use them to train anything, we never share them, and we delete them on request. The founder is a lawyer and a missionary dad; he wrote this policy the way he wanted it written for his own kids.

Never. You export the letters from your own inbox with a guided ten-minute walkthrough and paste a link to the photo album. Some other services import letters by logging into the missionary's email account with their username and password; we don't think anyone should hand over credentials to make a book.

Three ways. We organize the entire mission photo album into weekly chapters, while other services only use photos attached to the emails. We include a custom mission map and companion roster in every book, which no one else makes. And you get a real book editor with an optional first draft curated by our team, instead of a form or a review-only proof. Our comparison page lays out the full breakdown.