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What a great essay video!

Great video

In short, I care. Great video! Subbed ✌🏽

I read both ways because I love physical books, but ebooks and audiobooks are handy at the gym and on lunch breaks. Except for the rather massive downside of tech failures, which is currently a huge negative for me because one _just_ happened (and is still happening) to me. Lunch break at work, pulled out my phone to continue a library book I am at a cliffhanger in and the app no longer recognised my login info. Went to the library after work to check if it was a real account problem and it wasn't, so it is something broken in the app after the last update. This morning I was now able to login, but my entire account data has been wiped, including the book I'm reading. I tried to just borrow it again - I know what percent I'm at, so I can just skip to the right spot and keep going - but the catalogue is saying it is on loan. Yeah, it's on loan TO ME! But you aren't letting me read it! And I'm at a cliffhanger!! 😢 So I'm having a few negative feelings about ebooks right now 😆 I've never had a physical book delete itself at a critical moment. Or ever. Good old reliable paper. Can get wet, can get mouldy, can catch fire, but those risks are so much easier to manage than a tech failure is.

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This video was great and also reminded my to go to the library to pick up my hold (which expired today!) so thank you!

I am so sad that people will buy books as decor… books that are seen in your library should be accumulated over time. Filled with favorites and well-read books

I was flabbergasted watching that woman talk about how she sent her husband to buy books JUST TO FILL A BOOKSHELF. Like what??? And she talked about it openly.

Deep reading is not promoted as attractive.

Great video. I think it is interesting people now doing something similar with movies, in home or at the theater. If you can now sit through an entire movie rather than a stream of tiktoks, you are somehow superior to a lot of preteens and teens. Books are = to movies or any other form of entertainment to me.

i love physical books, and i have a mini library in my home. i just wished they weren't so expensive sometimes. i'm the type of person that if i read a book that i bought at full price where something happens in it or how the book ends is something i don't like, i would feel as though i wasted my money buying a book that made me unhappy. which is odd, i understand. that's why i find a free version of it online or find it at my local library, read it, and if i like it well enough, i try my best to save up and buy it to have in my mini library. i've also thrifted books that seems intereseting and are in decent conditions, so even if that book had something or ended in a certain way i didn't necessarily like, i won't feel as bad about spending my money getting it cause at the very most, i probably spent like $1-$4 max on it.

What a wonderful video! Loved this.

This is such an interesting video, thank you! The class implications of reading are very interesting, I personally am working class and always have been. I fell in love with it when I was tiny and had access to libraries to feed my addiction… these days I often read on my kindle and buy books secondhand and I have never thought that reading and sharing my book thoughts might make me appear to be of a different class.

Audiobooks from the library not mentioned😢 They my besties

As an avid bookworm since a kid cause I had no friends… it’s so bizarre to see how trendy books are now.

loved this video, and i would have loved a section in the history dedicated to reading as a radical and political act, for example women being taught to read and black americans choosing to learn how to read as an act of rebellion and to further the civil rights initiative. i think it would adds an extra layer to the video and as to why some people want to read more and what they choose to read; personally whenever i dont feel like reading my books or even participate in conversations about books, i always think about my ancestors and the efforts it took for me to even be ALLOWED to read.

A really good video. Hope you plan to make more!

excellent video.

Interesting video essay, thanks!

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Christi and I watched this and we loved it 🥺💖 You're so smart pls make more🙈

If completing the Rory Gilmore list imparts on you Rory Gilmore’s morals then I am afraid we are all at risk of becoming conceited, classist, self-serving adulterers.

nice video. i do think it's a bit silly to be overly concerned about this stuff. i dont care if someone fakes bookishness. in my opinion the greater harm is accusing people of being fake based on surface appearance at most. does someone really need to prove they are a reader because all they post about are Rory Gilmore outfits? is it really abnormal that an actress who makes art for a living is interested in other forms of art? besides, faking it a little, as a source of motivation, is normal. if someone is faking it too much, leave it to their close circle to make that observation to them, i dont need to assume it from a distance.

I love my e-reader and I love getting free books on it from my library.

I LOVE EBOOKS! can't live without my kindle.

This was very well put together! I SO wish that the same love for physical books could be extended to other forms of physical media as well.

It could also be that I can't fucking stand staring at a screen and reading for hours on end?

Very cool video.

I don't know what kind of videos you're posting in the future but if they are anything like this one I'M IN ✨️✨️

“It was the 2010s. People were wearing owl necklaces…” 😂😂 this was great. Your humor is sublime. 💫 As a life long reader I’ve never understood the fake book thing. If you care enough about looking like an intellectual, why don’t you buy real books and actually read them and become an intellectual? 😅

I'm of two minds here. On the one hand, fakery is never a good color and reducing reading to status is dicey. On the other hand, if books and reading have this cachet, then a certain number of the people buying books and surrounding themselves with bookish things will actually open the books and begin to read, and as many readers can attest, once you open a book, the book has the opportunity to open you.

Super cool video with compelling editing and arguments. Subscribed!

Extremely interesting and insightful! I definitely have experienced this subculture to a certain degree, although I guess it would be more prevalent on upper class and first world societies that in others that are as detached from books as a whole as they are from many of humanities advancements and knowledge.

I feel like Gilmore Girls makes it very clear that Rory’s “bookishness” wasn’t enough because in her senior year she realized this and had a freak out where she tried to make connections and join additional extracurriculars. She also knew that a school like Chilton would give her an upper hand. I think she ultimately felt that there was no shame in using her connections unlike Lorelai, and that’s meant to show differences in their character. Rory will accept help more readily than her mother who prides herself on hard work, and she is also more hard working and self reliant than her grandparents. It’s meant to show the way that both her mother and her grandparents have an effect and impact on who she is.

I see having physical books as like having music on vinyl, where it just adds another layer and ritual to the experience that in my opinion promotes mindfulness and presence. It also creates a more physical connection to the art that we love. You can look at a photo on your phone, but printing it out and hanging it feels like a greater expression of appreciation.

I like having physical books because they don’t have any other distractions built in

Would everything we do be scrutinized if social media wasn’t so prevalent? Would we even go to such lengths to project and distort others views of ourselves? The truth is that reading and reading literacy are on the decline and that is a really bad thing. maybe someone reading in public can return to just someone reading in public and it not having any morality attached to it. I enjoyed this video :-) it for sure provides some food for thought

I read ebooks and listen to audiobooks on my phone through digital libraries because I can’t afford new books or even used books at the amount I read and I have a hard time getting through physical copies. If I did have physical books, my shelves would be lined with at least 50 books on history, politics, and indigenous history/culture but I sacrifice the aesthetic for actually getting to consume the books. But also the only reason I’m able to consume so many books is because I’m allowed to listen to audiobooks at work. Reading is an privilege that sometimes comes at the sacrifice of the aesthetic if you actually care about it

Excellent video Amelia!! Fascinating perspective, and a flawless execution! Wonderful!

this video was great, but it maybe could have used more ice spice

Great video! I also think there's something to be said about the genre of book that is typically read/associated with on booktok - they're near exclusively smut books that hinge on fanfiction tropes. Very far from the classics associated with 'true' bookishness, but they still seem to be used as a symbol of intellect merely through the fact it is a book. (Not that there's anything wrong with those books, but it is interesting how the identity of being a reader has shifted so much that you don't need to know anything about the literary canon in order to adopt it.)

I started reading this year. I have spend my whole life on my phone, so i get so proud of myself when i read a full chapter (hard picking up the book, bad concentration). And I think alot of people put a really high standard on how many books you should read a year, or which to read to be a cool person... I am right now reading a book for 12 year olds about glamour and friendships. It is soooo not me, haha, but I never got to read it as a kid, so i wanna see what i missed. what im trying to say -- to those who needs to hear it - dont take it too seriusly. The coolest people are those who are honest to themselves and others, who dont copy-paste others, you know? (its 1.33 at night, it might not make sense..)

As a book reader, I do not feel the urge to post my outfit on the internet.

I think that the main reason ebooks stopped being popular is because their prices have quickly increased to the point where they couldn't compete with paperbacks. Also, access to them depends on fallible devices and also mainstream stores force DRM. Physical books started competing by more decorative physical books and also discounts and free shipping became a thing, and at the same time, there's a clear opposition in publishing industry to treating ebooks as much more affordable option. Book industry has deliberately suppressed ebooks.

At 9:15 I was honestly shocked by the lack of responsibility, patience and interest she shows for so many book. This is so sad, and disrespectful of the author and ressources used to make the books. Your video was really interesting ❤

Top tier video essay 💖

'May I never be perfect. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer. The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.'

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Man, this is so interesting and intellectual that becomes almost hot🤷🏻‍♂️ Keep up with it!

Ebooks are wonderful for those of us with poor vision. Same with audiobooks. You still experienced the story, and don't have to add more bookshelves. I still have tons of physical books, but they are mostly nonfiction. I use ebooks for fiction reading on my tablet.