6 unusual Christmas gifts for books lovers

We told you last week that books are the most popular Christmas gifts in France… and we love this fact ! But if you really want to be original this year, here are some ideas of unusual gifts only made for books lovers…!

1- The perfect bookcase to keep all your books organized

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2- The book light

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3- The book of your blog, to keep all of your articles and photos !

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4- The bookmark to know exactly where you stopped reading your book

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5- The candle which smells old books… to create a cosy atmosphere !

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6- The perfect mug to drink your tea or coffee while reading your favorite book… or blook !

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Books are the most popular Christmas gifts

Finding nice gifts for Christmas can be hard sometimes. But no need to find something very original, simples gifts are usually more appreciated than others. This year, books are still the most popular Christmas gifts in France, and new technologies will not change this.

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The main reason is that books don’t cost you a lot, and you can be sure that it will be appreciated by the one who will receive this beautiful gift. A lot of French people will discover a few books under the Christmas tree on the 24th of December for sure.

If you want to be original this year, you should offer a blook to your friends or family ! You can print your blog or theirs : holidays, recipes or family blog… this will definitely be a good idea !

Le Haut de la pile : a reading box for books lovers !

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Nowadays, people don’t take time to go to the bookshop and choose a book. Opening a book and being only focused on the story is not part of our everyday life anymore. This is why a new french start-up has been created. Le Haut de la pile was born from the wish of two young reading lovers : Xavier-Emmanuel Moreau and Zoé Cadé, who decided to take the crazy challenge of sending a reading box to their clients.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAThe concept is really simple. You just need to order a box and choose one of the booksellers on the website.  You can read their profiles and see which kind of book or authors they like. Then, you will receive one or a few book(s) (depending on which box you chose) thoroughly picked by the bookseller according to what you like. You will receive the box at home, and the only thing you will have to do will be to take time to read the book 🙂

Le Haut de la pile wants to re-create a relationship between the booksellers and the readers, and chooses to send only little-known books. This is a beautiful idea !

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Story Pod : a new kind of library in Newmarket (Canada)

Last week, we discovered the Blook and Bed Hotel, a very original hotel based in Tokyo, where bedrooms are seperated by books. This week, we are going to Canada to discover an other original concept.

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In Toronto (Canada), some people have created a library for the city of Newmarket. It is a big black cube which produces light by night thanks to the solar energy. During the day, this cube becomes a library which looks like a book. People can come over and read a book while sitting on the grass around. There are books for everyone : children, teenagers, adults… everyone will find what he wants.

This is such a good way to encourage people reading !

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This tiny book is full of happiness !

This is the end of the week. The week-end is almost here, so we decided to share a lovely project with you.

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The artist Evan made the tiniest book we have ever seen, untitled « The small pleasures of life ». The idea was to list all the little pleasures everybody can have in his everyday life : drinking a good coffee, reading a book, writing blog articles, watching the stars,… Every little pleasure, memory or feeling is summarized in a few words on one page, and illustred by a very simple drawing on the other page.

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This is such a beautiful idea, full of happiness and poetry ! Every one should own this kind of book 🙂

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A box full of books in the street (France)

Would you love sharing your books with others and discovering new books for free ? Well, this is possible ! In Moulleau, South of France, a box has been installed in the street. The concept is very simple : you put a book you loved (or not) in the box, and you can choose an other one and take it for free. The goal is to discover new authors or stories and to share with others.

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On the box is written : « Take the time to read… In this box, you can leave one or a few book(s) you loved. It is free access. Every one can borrow a book and read it on a bench before redepositing it in the box.” 

The idea has been developed in other cities of France, and hundreds of people have joined the concept. If you are curious and like reading books, this was definitely made for you !

 

A short stories distributor in Grenoble, France

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What an incredible idea ! The start-up Short Edition just launched its very new concept : a short stories distributor. Everyone can discover a short story just by pressing one of the 3 buttons. This is definitely a good way to enjoy your time while standing in line !

Of course, the start-up needs new stories everyday. It is the reason why a specific website has just been created. Every writer can share his stories… and it works ! Everyday, Short Editions receives hundreds of short stories and cartoons : a good way to supply the distributors.

The concept is being tested in Grenoble, France, with 8 distributors placed in different places of the city. We are pretty sure it is going to be a big success !

 

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Print a mom blog, the new family album?

mom blogApproximately 1/3 of the world bloggers are moms!

It explains maybe the success of moms’ blogs in the blogosphere because the market is consequent but not only.

A little of voyeurism for a feeling of identification for the just cause.

First of all, the offer in an editorial register is rather didactic!  The press handling with the parenthood the fact often in a very serious way. The advice(councils) on coats(layers), night terrors, diversified food(supply), photos of banks of image it is good but the young mom of today also waits for notices closer to their universe and to their everyday life(daily paper).

It is thus into this crenel(niche) that Mom blogs rushed. The Mom blog is spontaneous and removed inhibitions. Girls as you and I – a little the same principle of the chorus girl next door – how explain you to get back of her evening of the old woman with her baby, how small darling put you really ill-at-ease with the baker, which app to download for 3-6 years or how difficult it is to assume all these roles: woman, mother, wife, working-girl , girlfriend…everyday.

The feelings, fears, moments of joy. This is what all mothers live and this creates a strong link between women, also called “mother ” strong solidarity or identification phenomenon. Who has never thrown a sympathetic look on mom at the supermarket checkout exasperated by his son screaming at whim in the cart, while saying “yes, all the same …” ?

Humor, irony and decline in your mom blog : I feel much better for that

And then there are women’s blogs, which deal with everything but also with the parenthood differently, because this one is a member of their story and thus their territory of expression. A beautiful feather, a highly-rated assumed trash and a sense of the mockery: the keys of the success, for a public so feminine as male. Mockery and humor, key principles in moms’ blogs which work.

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We also count moms’ blogs centred on the creation. Because once mother, we can find the inspiration, the other way in the life than the 35 hours to the office. Fashion designer or serial shoppeuse, photographer or illustrator. The examples are not lacking because the children are also muses.

And then, to speak about her own child, it is completely fascinating. It is the opportunity to post some photos for the family which lives at the other end of the hexagon, while telling anecdotes which we shall have doubtless forgotten in a few months. One of those where we say ourselves, “this one have I to note it”. Then here we are, mom’s blog it is made for it too to remember its history.
Actually, we almost want to assert that mom’s blog is to become the new family album and that fast. It is necessary to make the book, the Blook to offer to birthdays(anniversaries) and begin the annual collection.