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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!
Twenty years ago in Bogota, a man decided to save as many abandoned books as he could. José Alberto Guitierrez, to call him by his full name, drives a Garbage truck around the columbian city and found out that people threw away their books so he decided to save them by taking them to his house, this initiative got him the title of “Lord of the books”.
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With the house slowly being filled with abandoned books, José Alberto, along with his wife Luz Mery and their three children turned the ground floor of their house into a free library they called “La Fuerza de las palabras” (The Power of words in English). The library became famous very quickly, to the point that volunteers from all around the country (and even from abroad) came to Bogota in order to help José Alberto and his family. In addition to this library, Luz Mery came up with the idea of opening a “Hospital” for old and damaged books that she would fix with her sewing skills.
José Alberto became so popular in South America that he was invited to the International Book Fairs in Bogota, Monterrey (Mexico) and Santiago (Chile). Shortly after, book donations came from all over the continent to the point that their library now contains more than 25 000 books. With space becoming an issue for the family (The surface of the library being 90m² or almost 108 square yards), the reading sessions they held for the kids of the neighborhood stopped and the library only opened when someone knocked at the door to get a book.
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The news of the Guitierrez’ free library reached one of the disarmament zones of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), who recently signed a peace treaty with the government thus ending 50 years of conflicts. One of the rebels reached out to José Alberto and his family to ask them for books so that they could prepare for their reintegration into the society.
Through “The Power of words” José Alberto wanted to show the world that not only people waste food but also books, and that this loss of intellectual nourishment was almost as deplorable as Food wastage. He also stated: “Books transformed me. So I thought that in places like these, it would be a symbol of hope, a symbol of peace”
If you want to know more about José Alberto and his family’s work, we invite you to visit their website!
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If you like making barbecue during the weekend and have a good time with your friends, you might enjoy this concept!
Tramontina, a brazilian brand for kitchen ustensils and the advertising agency JWT have imagined a project more than unique… The concept is simple: a book dedicated to barbecues. What’s the originality of that? Well, it’s not just any book. “The Bible of Barbecue” is a book where each page and the cover turn into a tool or an ingredient for the recipe!
For example, the first page is made of coal and you will have to break it to start your fire, the next one is paper to light it up and so on. As you go along, pages have new functions: sharpen your knife, make an apron, add salt and pepper… The cover is more solid and uses as a cutting board. Smart, don’t you think?
Each chapter correspond to a step: first light the fire, then cook and finally serve your dish!
At the end of the barbecue recipe book you won’t have any pages left, but your belly will be full! What do you think about this concept?
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!
First there is the blookshop !
To put your blook on the blookshop you can from now on modify your blook directly on the interface of the site, it is finally possible! At BlookUp, we have quite implemented with the aim of supplying you tools adequate to manage your blooks. Visualize from now on the final result and make the last spelling modifications or of layout, before making your command.
Our improvements are going to allow you to have an overview of the depiction of your blook and to give you the capacity to arrange him as you think best, an evolution of the service BlookUp intended to personalize every blook. To have a platform always more intuitive is the fundamental objective within our teams.
Make your blook for you and your family! Now!
Blookshop: shop window of your blooks.
You have a blog for your association or your projects, you can go farther! Do not content any more with creating your blook, make the promotion on BlookShop there! And earn money!
Real on-line shop window(showcase) of your works, Blookshop will allow you not only to sell your blooks and it’s contents but also to improve your natural referencing. Your book will be connected then automatically with your blog during searches on Google.
Do not wait any more, put your blook in sale. Set your price and give the book of your blog for most great pleasure of your circle of acquaintances and your readers!