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Your blog into a book, how about morphing it?

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Imagine having your hands around your blook, the book your blog… Imagine yourself browsing the pages of a real book, YOUR book, unique in the world! Touch the paper, feel the smell of ink… What a pleasant sensation it is to calmly read alone or share your articles and relive your memories with your friends!

Your blog becomes digital reality.  With BlookUp, your articles, your blog posts are automatically imported and formatted, but you can still choose the size and color of your titles, the size of your photos, the appearance of your cover and back cover… Within a few clicks, you customize your book and see it take shape before your eyes.

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Everything seems in place? Good! The only thing left to do is to order! And there it is, the book of your blog is printed and a few days later, you receive it at home. It’s now up to you to devour it selfishly or share it with your loved ones!

Become a Blooker now!

3D printing: We love printing your hikes!

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Are you an avid mountain hiker or a more casual one? Either way, you cross on foot or bike the most beautiful reliefs and you want to keep an original souvenir of your prowess?

Turning your best hikes into a 3D map is what the Spanish startup Nice Trails offers you. And we share the discovery with you this week!

This startup offers a revolutionnary solution to print a 3D model of a moutain excursion that you have done. All accompanied with nice reliefs that show you the altitude you have climbed as well as the achievements you have accomplished!

The idea came from the founder who thought that the path shown on a paper map does not convey well the remarkable character of physical prowess and exertion.

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This is much better than a Michelin map!

How does it work?

You send the GPS coordinates of your hike to the web platform, preview the 3D object representing your path – drawned in a bright red line along the relief you walked. Then you confirm your order to send it to a 3D printer. 

The object arrives at home only a few days later. It’s now up to you to use it as a paperweight, to frame it and hang it on a wall, or leave it on the living room coffee table like a trophy!

Nice Trails features 3 diferent print sizes and price ranges from 99 to 249€ (around $111,48 to $280,40). A good way to immortalize the hikes of your life, just like BlookUp allows you to re-materialize your digital content in a real paper book. It’s so amazing to see how the concrete objects that you can hold in your hands still have a bright future ahead of them!

The most impressive books of the World !

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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

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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.

Kuthodaw headstones

Hours of reading are awaiting… Provided that you can understand Pali!

“Pátria Amada” – Brasilia

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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!

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 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.

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Your best creations going from hand to hand!

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YOUR SUMMER BOOK SHARED AND PRINTED !

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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.

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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!

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Your PDF file becomes a book…

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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!

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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:

  1. Import your book without the cover and back cover, our service allows you to create your own customised cover.
  2. Your file has to match our specific formats: 15×21 cm or 20×27 cm.
  3. 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!

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More details on BlookUp…

 

Holidays are coming: make the book of your blog!

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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 🙂