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If you regularly visit this blog (and if you have just arrived, welcome to you!), you must know that since 2011, BlookUp is the platform that transforms your blogs and social networks into books and is compatible with a little more than 10 different blogging platforms!
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A single question was the origin of the creation of BlookUp: “What if all my digital contents disappeared suddenly?”. The answer seemed obvious: Go back to the book, the physical object. To the compilation, the collection, the immortalization of our work and our moments spent together on the Web!
Our virtual contents and exchanges can be frail and ephemeral, like our SMS, MMS, chat messages and other short, instant conversations tools. Textolife understood that, and that’s why this online platform offers you (since 2013) to print all your SMS / MMS, WhatsApp or Messenger conversations!
Sending SMS is a harmless, daily activity, and sometimes the conversations are so long that even your phone can have a hard time going back in history! It is easy to neglect these odinary exchanges, however, small forgotten treasures, sweet words, funny or moving photos are hidden inside them!
It’s also this idea of sharing good moments and memories that started Textolife, when Yasmine wanted to offer to her family (including her sister Laura, who will also be at the origin of the concept) a collection of all their group conversations! This first book was very tedious to “handmake”, with a lot of screenshots and using Word for layout…
Be assured that today, you just have to back up your conversations using the help provided for Android, IPhone, WhatsApp and Messenger, sign in and start creating your book via a mobile app or directly from the online tool!
A book of 40 pages costs about €15, and if you only want the PDF version, it will cost you €3.90 (downloadable from your personal account at anytime!).
Sounds great, right? Go ahead, and revive your SMS with Textolife!
Let us continue our little tour of the libraries around the world with something a little bit different from what we have been showing you so far.
We are crossing the Atlantic ocean, off to University of Chicago, Illinois!
The Joa and Rika Mansueto Library, to call it by it’s official name, is unlike any other library you have seen before! Why ? Because it is totally automated! The students of the University of Chicago do not have to walk around some aisles to look for a particular book or to ask the librarian whether the said book is available or not.
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Instead, the students can browse through the online catalogue of the Mansueto library to see if the book they are looking for is available, order it right away, and by the time they walk to the library the book will be waiting for them.
How is this possible you might ask? Well it all comes down to the library’s ingenious design.
The Mansueto library is like an Iceberg, you can merely see a third of it.
On the surface there are no aisles nor shelves. The whole space is dedicated to reading. Everything is happening beneath the surface.
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The library has a storage vault buried 20 meters deep into the ground, consisting in 24 000 bins! Each of them containing up to 100 books. While most (if not all) libraries sort their books by subject or author. The Mansueto library sorts its books by size to optimize the space of their bins.
Every book is marked on the spine with a barcode that is scanned each time the book leaves or comes back to the library.
Meanwhile, five mechanical cranes move alongside the racks to find and lift the bin containing the book that has been ordered by a student to the surface. The student is notified by email when the book has been scanned. Finally when it is ready to be picked up.
While many will salute the technical prouesse of building an automated library, others will mourn the loss of their good old wooden shelves as well as the feeling of walking and browsing through the aisles. What do you think about the Mansueto automated library? Is it the result of a genius mind’s work ? Or is it too much of a change?
Source – Photos by Tom Rossiter
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.
Trades of services between private individuals are more and more practiced : carpooling, couch surfing,… well, now it is also true for books ! Indeed, a very new app has been created a few months ago. Its name is Booxup.
Booxup is an app which was made for people who want to share their books with others. You just have to submit on the website to be apart of the community. Then, you can add books you want to share on your virtual library so that the other members can see it and choose it if they want to. You can also seek a book you would love among the couple of libraries around you. Booxup works with the geolocalisation, so you will only see libraries close to you. You can also follow members to know when they add a new book on the app.
Booxup was made to let people discover new books and share their owns. This is also a good way to meet people who love the same thing than you : reading. Maybe you should turn your blog into a book and share it on the app ? 🙂
Give the book of your blog for Christmas
You are convinced that writing is a form of struggle against forgetting and knowledge. But you are mostly convinced that writing is a form of therapy. So, make your blook and share it on the blookshop!
We are waiting on www.blookup.com
You did a blog as a travel diary to write and tell a story. Your story. But then, how to keep track of your blog? How to offer (you provide)? How to have with you? How do you turn it into an object? The answer is simple … Make a book.
So quickly, try www.blookup.com
BlookUp allows to create easily his book from his publications on pateformes of blog;. But not only!
Indeed, the system is also accessible for Instagram and Facebook and could become it for Twitter.
As regards Facebook, data which will appear on your Blook will be the publications which you realized or the photos which you published. So, for a particular event or simply to keep a written and personal track of all these publications and ideas ! Creating a book which will be called then “Blook” is the ideal solution.
As for Instagram, the import of photos is very quickly made and allows to visualize an overview free of charge so as to being able to modify him before adding it to its basket. It is obvious that it is better that an album photo where it would be necessary to select photos, possibly to make them develop, find an album with a cover which enjoys us, to sort out them, to put notes by hand by risking deletions, to stick photos (the error is then complicated to modify)… No speak to want to make several albums by hand for several people! (The anxiety)
No, by choosing to create an album photo via BlookUp, you will win at time, in energy and even on the price. The whole for a beautiful book photo delivered directly at your home!
For it you just have to choose “Instagram” as platform at the time of the first stage of creation of your book, to personalize either partially or totally your cover and to choose your photos. The layout makes after these few choice, automatically. You will not have then more than to admire the depiction and to command your Blook. It will be then FINISH.
You can command it of course in several copies and offer it to whom you will want!
Often we say to ourselves that the St Valentine’s Day is a commercial party and we are tempted either not to offer a present not to work in the trick or to offer nothing because we do not simply know what to buy.
You should know, even if it seems to you overrated or unnecessary, receive a present this day pleased ALWAYS. It is not only the party of the Lovers, but it is also the new opportunity to tell to people that you appreciate that it is the case.
To realize Blook on this occasion is an idea which will allow you to offer something which will stay and will thus be the opportunity to say that you wish that this hard relation and joins in time.
So that your book(pound) arrives in time, you can make your order until Sunday, February 8th, you will have it then for the St Valentine’s Day!
And for those who would want to offer the possibility of making Blook and not the book in himself, do not forget that there are the Good Presents. They have the advantage to be available immediately and allow you to offer a present which will be customizable by the person who receives him and thus who will please necessarily the latter. And that, it’s priceless!