It does make it a solution but one you may not be willing to go through. And that's fine. It also doesn't mean the entire product isn't useful. Perhaps not for you. I don't use Maps. But that doesn't mean I don't use other modules and find the product useful in a daily workflow. So you pay for software where 100% of everything it does provides a perfect solution for you? If so, you need something else for printing books. Or maybe you shouldn't use any of LR. That's fine. IF all I used was Canon yes. If not, no.
Once again you are needlessly misconstruing the entire discussion.
I never once said the entire product wasn't useful. What I have been sharing is my disappointment that the Book module is not what was expected, or as initially promised by Adobe. I too, find Lightroom useful ... to the tune of about 100,000 images pass through our workstations on average each week. I don't know where you got the idea that I don't find Lightroom useful ... I quite clearly stated my concerns about the Book module specifically. I expected a better effort from Adobe.
Please do go on and drag out the discussion into areas that have absolutely nothing to do with my original statement.
And yes ... we have been relegated to using ID for book creation, but it is an additional expense and extra steps that are needless for photo/wedding albums. ID is extreme overkill for such tomes as they are mostly all images and very little text. Where ID shines in with text.
The simplicity of using Aperture for this task in the past was so much smoother, easier ... and cost effective ... there is no reason we shouldn't be able to do the same tasks in the
Blurb Book module ... and use the vendors of
our choice.