Author: Team Blookup
The most impressive books of the World !
Last November, we talked about the little book of Evan and his idea to compile all the little pleasures of life. Revisiting this article, a question crossed our minds.
What about the great books? What are they talking about?
Two of them particularly caught our attention, and for one good reason.
Each of them, in their way, can be considered as the greatest books in the world, although not formalized by the Guinness Book. By the way, did you know?
The greatest book formalized by the Institute of World Records was unveiled by the Mshahed International Group in Dubai in 2012, measures 5m x 8.06m and weighs 1500 kg!
With this in mind, we were already very excited to search for more!
The Tripitaka – Kuthodaw Pagoda, Burma
The Tripitaka brings together all the founding texts of the Buddhist religion since the 1st century BC.
However, the “world’s biggest book” – in a symbolic sense – was only born in 1868.
Several tons of written surface are spread over nearly 730 headstones entierely made of marble! Protected in their stupas, small carved temples commemorating Buddha, these imposing stones are about 1.5m tall for about 13cm thick and remain accessible to the public today.
You can go admire and browse this book of several volumes (listed in the Memory of the World Register) at the Kuthodaw Pagoda, gigantic temple designed as a monument to the glory of Buddhism, in Burma.
Hours of reading are awaiting… Provided that you can understand Pali!
“Pátria Amada” – Brasilia
Exposed right in front of the Congress building in Brasilia, the book “Pátria Amada” is, according to its author Vinicius Leoncio, “the biggest book in the world”.
With a height of 2m and weighing almost 7 tons, it would be remiss to contradict him!
The lawyer has collected in this book almost four million tax regulations, for a total of 41,266 pages.
This conscientious author, who affectionately and ironically titled his book “Beloved Nation”, denounces the heaviness of the Brazilian tax system where, according to him, “a company passes on average 2,600 hours a year to solve its bureaucracy, against 180 hours of Europe […] in Brazil, we create around 35 tax rules by day. “
The story does not say if the Brazilian parliamentarians began to dissect this very complete book, but if simplified tax reforms begin to take shape soon, we can suspect that it would have contributed to their creation.
The next person to make an impression in the world of books may be you!
So if these examples inspired you, you can get started! BlookUp certainly does not propose the Obelisk format yet , but 500 pages make a pretty good start for GREATER projects …
Your blog printed as a real paper book!
Do you have a blog? Well, do turn it into a book! Sure, but what for, will you ask?
3 years ago, when BlookUp began its journey into the world of blogs and books, we were convinced that nothing could replace real paper books. Being able to hold in your hand the contents you wrote with caution and passion… What a thrill! Just give it a try! Once you receive your blook, when you can go through its pages, you will see all the hard work put to it through all these years. Share it with your friends and see how they get into it: It’s concrete, they can touch what you’ve accomplished and they can relate to it.
Your best creations going from hand to hand!
Time is important! Create your blook in 20 mins!
At BlookUp we know that your time is valuable!
So, we offer you to create your book from your own computer in 20 minutes, the average time spent by our clients to make their blook.
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YOUR SUMMER BOOK SHARED AND PRINTED !
It’s the end of the holidays… This summer you’ve shared so much with your friends and family!
Remember: you’ve shared your towel on the beach and the shadow of the parasol, the smoke of your neighbor’s barbecue, water plays in the yard, mosquitoes bites… What if you shared those unique moments in a book? A blook! Put all your beautiful pictures and your best memories in it, your adventures, discoveries, so they can stay in there forever.
Thanks to BlookUp, import the contents of your blog (posts and photos) in a few clicks and turn your blog into a beautiful customised book. You’re unique, your book will be too!
To celebrate the end of summer, we wanted to share your happiness by granting you 20% off on your next order with the code: PARTAGEBLOOK (available until 05/09/16 at midnight). And don’t forget to share this code on your social networks so that your blogger friends can enjoy it too!
Your PDF file becomes a book…
You have an ongoing manuscript? You’re about to put the final touch to your memory book, your novel, your recipes or poetry book? By transforming your manuscript into a PDF file, BlookUp offers you the possibility of printing it in small quantity. From one copy from €9, you can print the book you’ve always wanted: yours!
Enjoy these holidays to publish your next book, because until 31/08/2016 with our special offer your can have 15% off on the printing of your new book with the code: BLOOKPDF
Making your book is very easy, you just need to respect 3 rules:
- Import your book without the cover and back cover, our service allows you to create your own customised cover.
- Your file has to match our specific formats: 15×21 cm or 20×27 cm.
- Finally, make sure that your book is between 30 and 500 pages.
After a few clicks, you just have to order it and then 15 working days later you will receive your beautiful paper book at home. You can even promote your book by making it public and sell it on our online library: the BlookShop. A nice way to share your writings with a larger audience!
More details on BlookUp…
Holidays are coming: make the book of your blog!
Finally it’s that time of the year again: summertime! Our favorite season to enjoy the sun, the beach and also… Holidays! The perfect moment to take some time off with all your loved ones, and tell all about your adventures on a blog.
But what if all those great memories disappeared?
Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered: print the book of your blog or the book of your most beautiful Instagram pictures so you will never forget these memories! A lovely way to share you adventures with your family or your friends.
To know more about our concept and how to create your customised “blook” it’s right here!
A customised book with the name of your child!
We’ve found the perfect gift for a mum-to-be or for little readers… A book that you can customise with the name of your child! A very creative concept, because the story inside the book adapts to the name you choose.
The idea is simple: it’s the story of a little boy or a little girl (as you wish) that has lost his/her name. Little by little, the child will find one by one the letter of his name and live some magical adventures at the same time. Every character that the child met will give him the first letter of his name… Louis will first meet a lion, and Chloe a chameleon!
What do you think about this concept, pretty amazing don’t you think? To know more about the “Lost My Name” project, it’s this way!
And if you want to create a customised book to offer a wonderful gift to your child, you can also print your family blog into a book or your most beautiful Instagram pictures with BlookUp 🙂
Paige printed the blook of her love story!
Today, we wanted to tell you about one of the best and most beautiful blogger story we’ve ever heard. Paige met Trevor, and started blogging about it but she wanted to offer him a gift that would last forever… So she printed her blog into a book with BlookUp and revealed the surprise on their wedding day! We met Paige, and she will tell you all about her love story in a blook…
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First, tell us about yourself…
I am a newlywed living in Arizona, where I have lived most of my life. I work in finance at Intel Corporation.
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What is your blog about?
I created my blog in 2014 as a Valentine’s Day present to my then boyfriend, now husband. Before we started dating, I had kept a blog, recording my daily happenings for my family and friends near and far. I stopped blogging around the time I met him in August 2013, and he told me later that year, that he wished I had kept blogging, so we could look back someday and remember all of our early moments (we knew we were each other’s “one” from nearly the first date!). So starting in mid-January 2014, I secretly created the blog, each page dedicated to a day in our “history,” documenting both big moments like our first kiss and smaller ones, like screenshots of cute texts to one another. I wanted to write down every single detail of our earliest days, so that we’d never forget. In the two months between when I started my late night blogging and Valentine’s Day, I wrote out our nearly six month history, day-by-day! It was the most meaningful gift I have ever given.
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Why did you decide to print your blog?
Each year since I created the blog, beginning on the day we met (which is when the blog starts), we’ve re-read our history together real-time, as the days pass. It’s a fun tradition and one that we want to continue forever. Given the uncertainties with only having a copy of our history online, I wanted to make sure we had a permanent copy of our history to outlast us and pass onto our future children someday. So on our wedding day, I gave my husband the blook!
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How did you find out about BlookUp?
I found BlookUp after lots & lots of Google-ing on the internet, regarding how to get my blog published as a hard copy book.
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What are the positive and negative points of the making of your blook?
BlookUp was the only publisher I found that included both the text and images from the original blog. Most sites pulled in only the text, but the images were critical to my own blog. BlookUp also allowed me to edit the text, as needed. One drawback though was that it pulled in the text as run-on paragraphs, without a space in-between. It required a lot of editing work to separate out the paragraphs! BlookUp also had the most customizable cover options, but when I uploaded the cover I created outside of BlookUp (since the options offered didn’t allow placement of text on top of an image; only a text or full-image cover was offered), it kept uploading in poor quality despite the image being taken with a DSLR. I couldn’t figure this out! So the cover of the blook is a bit pixelated—oh well! It’s the content that matters inside 🙂
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What does your family and friends think about your Story blook?
Everyone loves it—our parents, friends, and family never even know the blog existed in the first place (since it was a private gift, meant for just the two of us), so to see it published now as a book was a big surprise for everyone. It’s already a treasured heirloom and it has only existed for a month! Our wedding photographer—rated as one of the top 50 best photographers in the US—said he has never seen such a special, meaningful gift. He was nearly as floored as my husband!
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Would you recommend BlookUp?
Absolutely! We’ve already ordered more copies of the original blook and look forward to creating blooks from any future blogs!
Thank you very much Paige it was such a pleasure hearing your beautiful story and we are proud to be (a little) part of it! All our team wishes you all the happiness in the world 🙂
Carla printed the book of her Instagram and her blog!
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Introduce yourself in a few words
In 2014, Carla (the mother) and Mona (the daughter) cross the Atlantic Ocean to put down their 4 luggages and their 2 pair of flip-flops in Guadeloupe… The dad arrives later! That’s the beginning of the story… Wishes for change, discovery and later a transfer brings us to Guadeloupe. Not far away from 40 years old and just 10 for my daughter, it was the right time to throw ourselves into this new adventure, open up to a different culture, live under new latitudes and most of all fulfill a dream…
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What are your Instagram account and your blog about?
Before coming to Guadeloupe we had to thought about the different ways to stay in touch with our loved ones, share our daily life and also justify choices!
My passion for photography led me of course to Instagram and the blog (my main blog 1idée.net is more about photography and wasn’t appropriate for this adventure). On Instagram I’ve decided to publish one picture a day on our first year: a quick way to share our daily life, a track for those that are far away, to not loose contact and share news in a picture, a little heart, a few words… (and of course have some news about friends and family thanks to this method). But with Instagram I’ve also been able to discover places that you don’t take time to explore unless you live there, touch other users of the social network, share, discover, exchange… And I still do all that!
The blog2pairedetongs is kind of a journal, or a way to send news to those we left behind without spending hours to write emails… The blog is the track of our discoveries, the first feelings and impressions, it’s also the album that we share online with our loved ones! And it encourages our friends to come and discover the island 😉
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Why did you decide to turn your Instagram account or your blog into a book?
It seemed important to me that having a “material track” of my Instagram account and my blog, an album that you can read again whenever you want, an everlasting memory…. We keep this book in our bookshelf and we read it everytime with a great pleasure, seeing how far we’ve come and it’s not over! I’ve offered the book of my blog to my daughter, so that she can keep track of our adventure overseas… Adventure that continues and delights us every day!
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How did you know BlookUp?
I’ve nown Blookup wandering on the internet, Twitter and I’ve immediately thought about my Instagram account. When I received it, I loved it and I ordered the book of my blog!
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What are the positive points of the platform?
It’s very quick and easy, in a few clicks the book is made and shipped in just a few days! Including overseas… Furthermore, the package arrives in excellent shape.
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How did you find the final result?
The final result is good! Just a little thing that wasn’t so great regarding the layout, sometimes the captions and the pictures are not on the same page… Some pictures are a little dark but the global quality is very good!
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What do your friends and family think about your books?
They’ve find the idea excellent and pleasant, it’s like a “travel journal” in a book! My daughter really likes to read those books, and remember those good times! So mission accomplished!!
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Would you recommend BlookUp?
Yes, I recommend BlookUp of course! And I will make more volumes!
Thank you very much Carla for this testimony and your feedback that will allow us to improve our service and satisfy our users! Did you like this article? Make your own customised book right here: let’s go!