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Why print your social media content?

Posted on by Team Blookup

As you continue to fill your phone’s gallery with photos of your moments with family and friends and constantly post them on your social networks such as: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, print and make a book of your content with one click. Before you become a society that only sees photos on their phones, BlookUp explains why you should print or make a book of your social networks.

Today, you can print your photos online, where you have the luxury of making your social network blook at any time of the day or night with a simple click of the mouse! Internet shops never close! With BlookUp print or make a book of your social networks.

A printed image is so much more valuable than some temporary pixel on a mobile device screen. You can physically hold it and decorate your bookshelf with blooks. Pulling it out years later and passing it around among your family and friends would help you relive all those memories. Unlike today’s digital age where the focus is solely on instant connections, printed photographs help make timeless connections – spanning many generations.

Some people in your environment may not know how to view photos on the Internet, but care about you. Printing your photos is a good way to share your beautiful moments with them.

Import it and print your photos with BlookUp!

Back in the days, we had bookmobiles!

Posted on by Team Blookup

Many of you probably don’t remember that time before Amazon!  Before even the internet was a thing, people still managed to bring books home though. Most of them went to the local bookstore or to the library, but what about the country folks or the people living in the suburbs ? The ones who did not have this chance?

Well just like Pepperidge Farm, BlookUp remembers!  Bookmobiles, were the solution to those who lived too far  away from the city and thus did not (or hardly) have access to the riches and joy that brought books. We have to travel back to the late 1850’s in Warrington (England) to see what is believed to be the first bookmobile, a horse-drawn van full of books. Behind this idea was a philanthropist, called George Moore whose project was to spread the goods of literature to the small villages around the city.

An old bookmobile pulled by a horse
The Perambulating library of Harrington in 1859, believed to be the first of its kind.

Needless to say people spread the word and the concept continued growing to the point of reaching the United States. Ultimately horses were replaced by cars, more efficient, and allowing the librarian to carry more books. Bookmobiles eventually reached the peak of their popularity in the mid 20th century before slowly disappearing.

Picture of a bookmobile in the 20's
Photo of a bookmobile in the 1920’s. Credits – Numismatic Bibliomania Society

However there still are a few of them out there, their goal remained the same: diffusing good literature and educating those who need it the most. Many libraries like San Francisco Public Library or Toronto Public Library have bookmobiles driving around the city, who knows maybe one day you’ll see one of these mobile libraries too!

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