Book design

I've had a think about the type of book that I want, things such as the type of cover, the size of the book, the amount of pages that I am going to need and the type of paper that I want to use.

I have come to the conclusion that I want to produce a standard landscape book (25cm x 20cm) this is mainly so that I will be able to fit my images on the pages properly rather than getting a smaller book and having to cut parts of the images off loosing their full impact. I think I am going to go for 40 pages, allowing me to put a variety of different photographs into the book showing different types of plants and flowers. At this point im notreally too sure about the paper type that I want so thats still something I need to think about. I also think that I am going to go for a soft cover to the book as I think it will look best however I am still thinking about having a hard cover, so theres still a few things that I need to figure out.

I have thought a little bit about the type of design I want on the pages within the book and I have done these two quick sketches just to show what I am thinking of: