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Print my tweets

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BlookUp allows you to record, your tweets in paper book. From the most popular, controversial or precious tweets, go from instant to posterity.

With its compact format (11×17 cm), this paper book of your tweets is fully customizable (color and cover photo of your choice) and offers you the possibility to archive, edit and extend the reach of your tweets over the period of your choice.

To start editing the book of your tweets, simply visit www.blookup.com and connect to your Twitter account using a secure protocol. The simplicity of execution is the strength of the solution developed by BlookUp.

So, what are you waiting for to print your blook?

Les Oliviers du Taulisson and their several books!

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Les Oliviers du Taulisson is one of our loyal customers. They have published content and printed several blooks so far ! Can you believe it?!

Each of their blooks represents a period of their life, their memories, their daily life. Once you start flipping through it, you can’t stop.

BlookUp gave Guy and Dina the ability to import their content from their instagram account, format it to their liking and print it.

In order to keep a permanent record, they have created colorful books that blend perfectly with their interior. So practical to put in their library so they can share all their best moments with their clients, family and friends.

Why not do the same?
Check out our site for more information.

PRINT FACEBOOK

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You maintain a profile on Facebook, your real logbook, and you want to immortalize your publications in a book? This is now possible! BlookUp has developed an innovative technology allowing you to import your posts and photos in a few minutes. Then print them in a 19×26 cm book on a beautiful paper. Start here: https://www.blookup.com/fr/products/facebook-profile
BlookUp will import all your posts in their entirety and since the opening of your account. An editor will allow you to organize your blook according to the most relevant criteria and to correct any spelling mistakes.
Once the data is imported, you can customize your book before ordering it.
See you soon on https://www.blookup.com

Print your Twitter book

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Printing your Twitter account in a real paper book is now possible!

BlookUp offers an innovative solution to print and save all your tweets in a 100% customizable book.

You can choose between 2 books:

–My 100 most liked tweets: this book contains your 100 most liked and retweeted tweets by your followers.

-The book of my tweets: this book contains all the tweets from your account over a period that you have previously defined.

How to create my Twitter book? (in 3 steps)

Step 1: Create your BlookUp account

Go to the BlookUp website, fill in your login details and register.

Step 2: Import your data

Choose the social network of the book you want to create, connect to your account via BlookUp (all your data are private and secure), fill in the desired publication dates and the site will automatically import and format your content.

Step 3: Customize and print

Thanks to the 3 tools (Preview, Appearance and Content) customize your blook to your taste (color, content, layout, cover…). Add your book to the cart and order. You will receive your blook within 8 to 10 business days!

Hashtag Shelfie: Sharing your library under the hashtag

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We know that internet, blogs and social networks gave or maintained a general taste for writing and creation! It also  gave the world of books a second youth by putting self-publishing at everyone’s reach.

Books and writing are part of the daily life for many of us. And the internet pays them tribute!

@earthscorners

What the shelf?

On Instagram, we find under the hashtag #shelfie a whole lot of inspiring photos featuring shelves and libraries. The word “shelfie” itself sets the tone by combining the words “shelf” with the word “selfie” (the famous self-portraits photographed in the 21st century, for those sleeping at the bottom).

Many of the photos feature furnitures arranged like they’re almost taken straight out of an IKEA magazine. But, and this is what interests us here, we can also find books!

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#Shelfie indeed is the occasion to make your personal library a star while the hashtag lasts ! It’s also the moment to share your reading taste or your  storage foibles to your friends and followers… Or even to discover what composes the tastes of others and how people organizes and surrounds one’s readings!

@bluestockingbookhelf

@bluestockingbookshelf

No boasting of elitist readings or endless rows of books here (even if we recognize that a full library is always pretty to picture 😉 ), only the joy of seeing beautiful book-related photos and starting exchanging about your favorite books!

After all, the contents of a library are often indicative of the personality of its owner(s): It is with this idea that the newspaper The Guardian launched the concept of the Shelfie in December 2013.

@shelfjoy

More than 820 000 publications are now classified under the hashtag #shelfie and more are coming everyday, so it’s always time to get involved and show what you have and love!

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Article source (French) | Images:  @earthscorners, @culturetripbooks, @bluestockingbookshelf and @shelfjoy

Seeing and hearing Iceland with HVISL!

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A book you can smell already exists ! Now check out the book that you can listen to?

Hear for yourselves!

Audiobooks, those kind of books one person will read aloud and record so that others can listen to them, are a growing part of books sales nowadays. They mainly prove their practicality for visualy impaired people.

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For those who can afford it, there are some book concepts that combine vision and hearing to enjoy together as a global experience: This is the concept of Hvisl – Whispers of Iceland, both a photo album and sound guide taking you on a trip around Iceland!

The project was created by Chloé Curé and Bertrand Lanthiez, based on their shared experience of Iceland during a 2-weeks trip. Sounds effects were brought by Johannes Mandorfer.

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Their collaboration allows you to appreciate breathtaking pictures of beautiful landscapes and warm interiors, accompanied, as you flip the pages, by the sound of the wind and the waves, a conversation in Icelandic, the cracking of the ice or the bubbling of the geysers…

While you enjoy the atmosphere through your headphones, you will also learn everything you need to know about landscapes formation, local language, climate, mythology… Truly an immersive experience!

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Source | Images: Bertrand Lanthiez 

Building skyscrapers inside giant sequoias

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Since 2006 the architecture magazine eVolo organizes the Skyscraper competition, a contest during which teams of architects from all over the world come up with ambitious (sometimes crazy) projects that not only challenge the limits of construction working but also rethink the way man-made buildings interact with the environment.

This year more than 400 projects have been examined by the jury, only 3 won the competition and 22 received honorable mentions, the project we are introducing today received one of these.

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Credits: Evolo

At the very heart of this team of South-Korean architects, the Giant sequoia is one of many numerous victims of human activities and although it is now protected, its life span has shortened due to climate change. In addition, the roots of this giant are very small in comparison to its height and do not grow deep in the ground; so when the core starts to rot the sequoia collapses under its own weight.

The project intends to reconcile mankind and nature with a more respectful approach of architecture by replacing the empty and/or rotting space inside the said giant in order to build skyscrapers inside that will neither harm the trees nor drastically change the landscape. The new structure build inside the sequoia acts like a new backbone that will prevent the tree from collapsing. The working space inside the “sequoiascraper” (Yup, I just made it up) should be dedicated to arts and research. A bold project that, if it ever sees the light of day, will prove that there are alternatives to bending nature to our own will and deforming the landscape. Hats off to them!

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Credits: Evolo

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Credits: Evolo

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Credits: Evolo

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Growing trees out of books!

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A small publishing house in Argentina recently made a totally organic book that gives back to nature what it took from it by growing into a tree (Which might remind you of our previous article about the Japanese blooming newspapers). What’s their secret? Well first, unlike the majority of books, this one is made using organic ink along with acid-free pages that allow it to be planted without harming the soils. Seeds are put inside the paper during the making process and will wait until their time comes to grow into a magnificent tree!

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This book tells the story of a man wandering inside the equatorial jungle as seen through the eyes of his son.

 

Pequeño Editor, the publishing house specialized in books for children,  wanted to deliver a message to their young readers: “Books come from trees. Today, a tree comes from a book.”

Even though changing the way we make books on a global scale seems difficult (If not impossible), we have to salute the effort made by the people of this publishing house who do not only show us an eco friendly alternative but also educate children in the process!

“If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children” – Confucius

If you want to know more about Pequeño Editor and their work, be sure to check out their Facebook and Twitter page!

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[Update] The Book and Bed hotel in Tokyo : an original concept !

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Japanese people are known for having crazy ideas, and at BlookUp we love a concept that stands out!

In Tokyo, the owners of this hostel just made every book lover’s dream come true: An accommodation bookshop. Don’t let the name fool you though, the books are not for sale; however you can read as many of them as you want while being comfortably seated on one of the sofas!

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As for the beds, customers can choose between sleeping in bunks if their budget is tight or inside a bookshelf and being surrounded by hundreds of books: The ultimate bookworm’s nest! However, comfort might not be the first words to come to your mind while looking at the mattresses, and the staff is well aware of that.

The staff focused their efforts into providing the most unique experience as they could, the idea behind the accommodation bookshop was to create a space where people would be able to do what they enjoy the most until they ultimately fall asleep. And for those among you that always drink something while reading, well you are sorted because you can get coffee and other drinks at the bar inside the hostel!

beds_photo_1Tokyo is not the only city to have a Book and Bed hotel, Fukuoka and Kyoto also have their own. If you cannot make it all the way to japan, you can check out their Instagram and get a glimpse of the magic of this place!

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