You take pictures, write posts ,now you can blook!

Discover the new service that gives value to your digital posts!

Blogs appeared in the 90’s. First used by professionals and companies, private individuals haven’t waited to adopt those digital spaces of expression.

Maybe you too could own a blog like 250 millions of people in the world?

Blogs and social networks have replaced private journals nowadays, people like to speak about them, what they love, their passions and express the need to share every single moment of their daily life. And while we spend more and more time feeding digital accounts, BlookUp offers to do the opposite!  Give tangible form again to digital contents to turn them into books.

Inventor of this new use, BlookUp allows to “blook” (contraction of the words “book” and “blog”) your blogs or social networks accounts, to materialize your virtual contents in the form of a book, using the codes of a traditional publication.

That is to say with a customized cover, pagination, table of contents…

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Why make your blook?

If blogs and social networks are amazing spaces to express yourself, internet remains insubstantiable and this accumulation of digital posts!

It is pointless if it’s not shared or valued. That’s where book still have a bright future, because beyond a reminder book or a sharing book, making your blog book is an event!  It’s making YOUR book.

By creating their blook, bloggers customized their cover, adjust the layout, they give life to a publication! A transmissible work, certainly modest but dear to them and the ones they love.

Because the content of a blog is often very personal and concerns a family, it requires investment, passion, time to write, post…

The more time they spend on their blog or their social network accounts, the more the authors want to keep a material track of their work.

Already 8000 bloggers have made their blook, what about you?

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You book printed on demand with your lunch

A new restaurant has opened in Paris: ZA.

It’s actually a “literary cafeteria” where anyone can come, order food . As well as order a book that’s printed on demand!

An original concept that spoke to our hearts here at BlookUp, we know about printing book on demand from one copy!

Here, you can order a book that exists already (and not customize your own book like we offer) from a catalogue that is about 2000 titles.

Your meal is being prepared at the same time as the book you’ve chosen is printed, and you can then feed your body and your mind in one single place!

Printing a 400 pages book takes 7 minutes, so you can enjoy your break.

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Designed by Philippe Starck, and with 328 seats and its terrace, ZA is ZE place to be for all book lovers! Bonus!  You can even download the application on your smartphone to see the menu and pay online thanks to the WIFI service.

We love the concept! What do you think about this “literary cafeteria”?

Turn your Blogspirit blog into a book

You have a blog on Blogspirit? Did you know that you could now turn all your contents into a book? Well it’s possible thanks to BlookUp!

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What would you feel about making your memories or your writings real? Think about all the posts you’ve patiently written during all those years… BlookUp invented an easy and quick way for you to create the book of your Blogspirit blog, but we also offer to import digital contents from other blog platforms and social networks!

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Thanks to BlookUp you can now import all or just a part of your contents by simply connecting yourself to your blog thanks to a secured application. With the content editor, your posts are automatically laid-out and in a few clicks you have a nice book printed in high quality and delivered at home in 8 business days, even for just one copy!

You can of course customize your book by choosing the format, the font and also the design of the cover and back cover. BlookUp offers you several templates for those, but you can also choose to import the creation of your choice with the “100% custom” option. Bonus: the title of your blook will be displayed on the edge of the book, always a nice touch in a bookcase!

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Come on, don’t hesitate and order your blook now to immortalize your blog!

After connected paper, the digital is materialized again!

Paper is approximatively 3000 years old and it’s not ready to disappear.

On the contrary, paper has recently known a renewal thanks to the cohabitation with its sworn enemy!  The digital.

Nowadays, digital and book are no longer contradictory, but they complement each other. `

We all know QR codes or Flash codes. Children books now offer augmented reality, packagings of frozen fish tell us many informations about the product and where it’s been fished, the specie, the receipes you can cook with it.

Connected paper allows the readers, the companies and the brands to use a new space of information and communication thanks to our smartphone’s screen.

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Thanks to digital technologies and databases, printing companies like Maqprint are able to print very customized contents and deliver documents limited to only a few people.

Part or all the elements (texts, pictures, graphs, colors, lay-out) composing a document or a book can be different from one another, allowing to target more efficiently the needs of the customers or readers.

Digital combined to databases opens up to the possibility of various marketing scripts. So, tomorrow an airline company could offer on-board customized magazines to travellers according to their own interests.

Proof that digital and paper mustn’t be opposed is BlookUp 

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Since 4 years, BlookUp offers to print books from personal blogs.

Today thanks to a reversed technology we lay-out digital flows, texts and pictures to turn them into real paper books.

Reasons to materialize your blog again are numerous. To keep a track of your writings, save it because you are afraid to loose it one day, and to offer it and share your book (books are a great gift!) or to sell it to other readers!

Making your “blook” (contraction of the words “blog” and “book”) is a great thing to do.

So, you can love digital, blogs, social networks… But also the smell of a new book, the touch of the paper, the pleasure to show it to others, commenting moments of your life around a nice and beautiful paper book.

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BLOGGER BLOG: PRINT YOUR’S TODA !

Formerly Blogspot, Blogger is a platform that many users are fond of!

It’s great to write about your daily adventures! To keep in touch with your loved ones when you travel around the world or to write about your everyday life as a mum.

A blog is the perfect place to keep a track of your digital writings.

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Your Instagram pictures printed in a book in seconds!

What’s better than an Instagram account to show your most beautiful pictures?

And share them with your loved ones? Well, we have an answer! A book of those pretty photos! BlookUp allows you to upload your digital contents, and your Instagram pictures, to customize and print a nice book that you will always keep near you!

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Furthermore, we have added new features allowing you to have bigger images and longer captions!  And all that in a nice square format 15cm x 15cm, with a beautiful paper! It’s easy, quick and effective for a quality book: printed in high definition colors, and you will receive your book 8 working days after your order! Why wait any longer to create the book of your Instagram ?

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You don’t have to fear loosing your data anymore, you will always have a paper track to remember your best memories in pictures!

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Print the book of your WordPress blog

You have a blog on WordPress that you have created several months or several years ago? Do you regularly publish posts and pictures on this private space? Like many people that are passionate? You invest your time and energy to make you blog everyday and like many people, you maybe tell yourself that it would be great if you could one day print the book of your blog. All to keep track of its digital content!

Well, thanks to BlookUp it’s now possible. To save your content, print it for yourself or to offer to others! We have made printing a blog  a reality for all bloggers.

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Leave your data to someone thanks to Google !

Have you ever thought about what will become of your digital datas when you’re gone?

Google has an answer for you !

You can now fill up your “digital will”, a document that will allow you to write down your last wishes regarding the datas on your Google applications.

Youtube, Gmail, photos in your Drive, documents… Weither you decide to give full access to someone you know, or you wish to just delete everything, the final decision is your own and will be applied when your account will be inactive during a certain period of time.

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Meeting with Frank, a basket lover and a blooker!

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  • Tell us about yourself

Passionate about basket but also about writing, I opened Hoop Diary 7 years ago. First, it was a blog hosted on the website basketsession, and it was one of the “star blogs”. Then, the website was closed and I’ve created Hoop Diary on WordPress, to save all my writings.

I’m still very invested in the basket’s world, as a trainer after being Development Director for a minor ligue.

  • What is your blog about?

The first posts was really about my experience as a player and as a trainer, and my thoughts about it. My blog also contains videos of my trainings, it allows me to keep them somewhere.

Then, I’ve wanted to share stories around Toulouse’s basket, before they were forgotten. Finally, Hoop Diary became the website for all the pyrenean basket, some of my posts were shared on other websites.

At last, there are many categories on my blog, including “les routards du basket” (I retrace the steps of big players), “Hoop” (where I highlight picturest grounds). This last category gave birth to my Instagram account.

  • Why did you decide to print your  basketball blog?

I’ve always been fascinated by books, in general. A furnished library is the most valuable thing in my house! Print my blog was the chance for me to keep a paper track of my writings and give body to them thanks to the book. I also intend to publish my own book one day, about the pyrenean basket’s history.

  • How did you know BlookUp?

Thanks to a Valentine’s Day gift! My wife printed my Instagram account, and then I had my blog printed. She’s a blogger too, that’s how she discovered BlookUp.

  • What are the positive points?

The possibility to sort, organize the posts. It’s very easy.

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  • How can we improve our service?

More choices for the covers (colors, photos…). Some posts were in two different categories, so it was a little hard to classify them.

  • What do you think of your basketball blook?

The result is good, with quality paper. Regarding the Instagram blook, I think it’s perfect!

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  • What does your family think about your basketball blook?

The feedbacks are very positive, it gives a new life to my blog and allows them to dive into the posts again!

  • Would your recommend BlookUp?

Yes I would recommend BlookUp, and I will certainly make another blook in a while!

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Meeting with a blogger mum and her blook!

Today, we would like to introduce you Patricia, writer on the blogs “Une maman blogueuse” (now closed) and “Un orage en été“. She tells us about why she printed the book of her blog, to turn its digital contents into a beautiful blook!

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  • Tell us about yourself:

My name is Patricia, I’m 36, I’m married and I have two daughters of 7 and 3 years old. I live near Paris and I’ve been a blogger for 4 years now.

  • What’s your blogs about? 

My old blog, “Une maman blogueuse” (“a blogger mum” in english), talked mainly about the daily routine of a family, about education, activities for the kids, questions you ask yourself when you’re a mum. The new one, “Un orage en été” (“a storm in summer” in english), also talks about these things because I’m still a mum and those topics still interest me a lot but I felt the need to talk about everything I enjoyed as a woman. There’s beauty, fashion, travels, activities (but not just with the family), cooking recipes… It’s a mix of all the things I love.

  • Why did you decide to print your blog into a book? 

When I decided to close “Une maman blogueuse” to only write on “Un orage en été”, I felt the need to keep a material memory, more than just Word files.

I’ve written for 3 years on this blog, and many posts meant a lot to me, especially those regarding to the “evolution” of my kids.

I thought the idea to print your blog into a book was fun. This way, I can dive back into it whenever I feel like it and my daughters can read it someday.

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  • How did you know BlookUp? 

I already knew that I wanted to print my blog into a book, so I did some internet research and BlookUp was part of the possibilities.

  • What are the positive points about the platform? 

The big positive point is the simplicity of use. The explanations are very clear and it’s very easy.

  • What can we improve? 

I think it would be nice to offer more choices regarding the templates and colors. I also think that, when you have to print several book, we should be able to make them from the same blog import.

  • How do you find the final result? 

Despite all the things you can improve as mentionned up above, I love the result. The quality of the book is very good, the images are beautiful and the paper is soft to the touch.

  • What does your family say about your blook? 

My close relations thought it was a very good idea. The book is at the disposale of everyone in the living room, and they like to be able to read a post that they’ve enjoyed on the occasion.

  • Would you recommand BlookUp?

Yes, without a doubt. Among the other websites that offered this service, BlookUp was the one with the most beautiful and less expensive products. Furthermore, the delivery was quick and, as I said, the product was of very good quality.

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Thank you so much for your testimony Patricia! We’re happy to see that you are pleased with your blook. If you also want to print the book of your blook, go to our website: inscription and import are totally free!