A Saturday MegaStuff Video: Tech, Books, and the Wonder of BookTube!
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"In Loving Memory" - Caleb's wonderful tribute to Molly:
• In Loving Memory
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I'm so grateful that Molly was able to be loved and adored through the years by dozens of people she'd never seen. It was a great joy for me to share her life - a singular kind of joy made possible by BookTube. Thank you for your sweet words here. I want you to know that, though I've been largely silent, I'm still here, and a day for me would be incomplete without seeing you and Frieda. My love to you both, and thank you again. :-)
Thank you, Steve. So thankful for you and our booktube community. Can't imagine life without you all.
What a wonderful sentiment about this community. You had me tear up before I even watched Caleb's video even though I never knew him.
I don't always comment on here, and I wish I could engage more with the community, but watching you and a lot of other wonderful BookTubers brings me a lot of joy.
I loved it when you used Jilly Cooper to illustrate your point. Yes reading is a joy that everyone should be able to share without feeling they might be doing it wrong. Some of us are greedy readers that want multiple layers of reading that interconnect and inform each other, but that's not the only worthwhile way to read. Off to watch Caleb now although having lost my dear and companionable cat this week I may find it a bit emotional.
"that's not the only worthwhile way to read" - yes indeed! There are PLENTY of worthwhile ways to read!
I’m going to hold my dog Murphy close tonight. Thanks for the ending of this video, Steve.
When you mentioned the owners of older dogs I felt a pain where heartache lives. Every day there is a little less of the pup I brought up and played with and explored the beach with. Yesterday she fell on her face for no reason. Her limbs are stiff and unreliable until we go for a walk, then tail high ears alert she trots beside me stopping only to have a good sniff and read her pee mail. Where have the years gone? I’ve been away for a while, caught up in a fantasy world, but I’m ready to emerge now. I disappeared when I was shielding after lockdown and couldn’t bear to be in this world. Perhaps I can emerge slowly into the light again.
We had a wonderful week in Shropshire, in green rolling countryside, a stolen week. We went on a short visit to Hay on Wye and bought from the book boxes and we also went to a book sale where books cost 50p. I bought some books to read, a couple just because they are beautiful artefacts for 50p and then old or damaged “picture” books to use in art journals or as altered books. I know. It’s criminal. I am giving them a second life and you can’t do that with an e book.
Be well Steve, and take care. And yes, friendships online are real as people who meet partners online will surely agree with - including yours truly who was a fellow mourner on a grief site for widowed people. The site has long vanished but we’ve been together since 2005, a life I could never have imagined without the internet. xx
That sleeping dog on the couch is mine and thanks to you I view her differently. Of coarse I have learned about books and many other subjects listening to you but your insight and love of animals has allowed me to experience more deeply my little dog as the wonderful person/companion she always has been. You made me appreciate her even more. Thank you for that. Your appreciation for the booktube community as friends touched me also and I feel the same way. Sharing creates a wonderful community. I love my video friends.
What an incredibly nice thing to say. Thank you.
Hello Steve. If I were to lose the love for paperback books .... the feel of a physical book, the smell of a book, the turning of the pages of a book then I would want to give up reading altogether. I am a paperback book lover and to lose the love of paperback books would be a crime.
I've heard such sentiments before, of course, and you have to know how they look to me, right? When you say that if you had to give up the smell of a book or the physical act of turning the pages you'd just as soon give up reading completely, it doesn't sound to me like you actually like reading at all - just the accessories of reading. I'm sure that's not true, but that's certainly what it sounds like.
Steve Donoghue I very much enjoy reading books. I am a lover of finding a good book and getting lost within its pages. Anyone who has met me would tell you that I am definitely a lover of reading. Today I went to Barnes & Noble which to me is one of my favorite places to go. Reading books is one of those things I truly enjoy. I enjoy the pleasure of reading very much so.
@@monaedoyle3631 But if you take away the smell and feel of the paper pages, you'd give it up completely? I got lost - just happily lost - in a book just this morning that had neither smell nor pages.
Had me teared up at the end there Steve. You are completely right about what you said about booktube. Going to spend the evening watching your q&a now, thanks for everything.
I want an iPad Pro! I have an iPad Air and an iPhone and a second hand MacBook which I love and which was a gift from hubby. I would love an external hardrive for iPad!
I bought an ipad pro (2018 version) earlier this year specifically for use as an art tablet, and I’m very glad I did- about a month ago my laptop stopped working, so my ipad has become my primary writing device (and primary computing device in general). It’s a fantastic little machine, though I definitely miss some of the functionality of a full windows computer.
What beautiful comments, Steve.
Interesting, I'll have to go watch your Nemesis's video. I don't think it's 99% of people that don't read voluntarily, I think there's actually a pretty big group that falls into the people who do read voluntarily, but don't want to be part of that larger conversation. We're the freaks who both read voluntarily, and want to be part of conversation. I'm surprised by how many people I know who read, but never talk about it, unless I sort of force the subject. And then I suddenly found out they read lots of the same books as me... They just never bring it up.
I know there's still lots of people who don't read. I just think it's more like, maybe 80%, not 99%
You are a good _egg._ ❤️
Good Lord! You don't hear that term much these days! Thank you!