I loaned out my copies of Twilight and New Moon FIVE YEARS AGO AND NEVER GOT THEM BACK. I bought new copies. And I have a new rule--I will loan out ONE book per person at a time and the dust jacket stays with me. If the book is returned damaged, YOU ARE BANNED FROM THE LIBRARY OF KAT FOR LIFE. I don't care if people think I'm a crazy book lady. They're right. My books are my preciouses. BTW, you are totally nailing these daily vlogs so far! Keep it up! :)
Holy crap. I lent my cousin New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.. and when I tried to ask for them back.. she said she didn't remember even borrowing them -_- So.. I had to re-buy them. Thank God for Strand. I grabbed them for like $2 each. Maybe it's something with the Twilight series lmaoo - Briana
THIS VIDEO IS SO EXCELLENT. LOLOLOLOL i stopped lending books out.... in 5th grade when i lent my cousin Ronald Dahls THE WITCHES witch was my favorite non harry potter book in the whole wide world AND I NEVER GOT IT BACK.
Bah. I lent The Twits to someone, and the only reason I got it back was because I got to look through a box of stuff being given to a thrift store... yeahhh... my head almost exploded.
I have this issue too. I tell everyone beforehand that I charge for damages towards the book. 1. Every ripped page is one dollar. 2. Each scratch, bend, or rips in the cover is two. 3. Every dog ear I find is fifty cents. 4. Damages to the binding are two dollars. 5. Food smears, pencil marks, or any of the sort are three dollars. They usually give the book back to me, mumbling how they'll borrow it from someone else.
If you're not willing to go to the library to check out a book that you want to read, you obviously don't want to read the book enough. My books are NOT for your convenience.
I remember this one time, my friend wanted to borrow not one but 7 of my comic books. I was like 10 and those copies were from 1970-80 so they were precious yet I still got only 3 of them back. Now I have my own library marks were I stick them on my book saying my name, details and due date... I even stamp them.
God me too. I seriously do that. Good to know I'm not alone. Plus, I am constantly reminding them if they are finished with the books or like if they're not gonna read it to give it back to me either right then and there or the next day.
I'm ridiculously paranoid about lending out books so half the time I just tell them to go to the library. Even with family members I'm like, "Okay..you can read it BUT RUIN IT AND YOU'RE BUYING ME ANOTHER ONE"
I'm in the same boat. I hate lending out books. I don't own any of my favorite books anymore because I've lent them out and never got them back. Never again.
My friend borrowed my first and third percy jackson books...when i lent them to her they were in mint condition...when i got them back the first book's cover was ripped, torn, and bent, and the third book's cover was ripped, torn, bent, and had a pink marker stain on it...she told me she dropped it on the floor...WHAT FLOOR!?!?
That is a crime punishable by a few good years listening to the Olympians fight and Zues's big ego. An alternative is going to Azkaban, talking to Demeter about farming, hanging out with Mr D, really, the list goes on and on
YOU KNOW. I was crying and having a really freaking bad day, but I came home, saw this in my subscriptions and watched it, and it made me laugh so hard. Thanks for making my day not suck so much.
This is awesome. And this is the reason I only lend books to my mom. One of my friends in high school borrowed Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants series and I never got them back. O_O Yep. If I let people borrow books, they have to be awesome book people like booktubers or book bloggers who appreciate books as much as i do.
I understand you. I'm kinda obsessed with my books and don't even like people coming close to it. When i lend some (wich is once in never) it's under the condition of returning me in at least five days. If the person do not read it, i go to their house and take it back. Rules are rules.
Oh my God, this like happens to me A LOT! And I know how hard it is to say no and when they walk away with my books I'll be like poking daggers at them in my head, saying "You better take care of those books!"
Oh my God you just summed up all of my feelings about lending books! I don't even lend them to my dad who lives in the same house because the way he holds them puts pressure on the spine which leads to it breaking, which happened to my beautiful illustrated copy of The Hobbit :C (and half of the pages of my sister's copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone FELL OUT because he bent the cover right around and pulled the binding apart). Whenever I see him holding it wrong I tell him but then he gets annoyed because he thinks he IS holding it carefully and I can't tell him how to hold it properly because I don't know how to teach people to do it because I just automatically do it. So now I only let him borrow books that are hardcover (but I don't let him have the jackets) or ones that are already old or have been accidentally damaged by me (I'm very careful, but sometimes things get dropped). I love him but I do not trust him with my books XD I'm also really anal about the time they've been out of my possession. Longer than two weeks and I get really antsy about having them back, but then on the same hand I borrow books from people and then get distracted by my own books and never end up reading them D: Although if I know I'm not going to read it for a long time I always give it back and say 'I have a lot of other things to read, but when I have time and if it's okay I'll borrow it again.' Wow. This is a really long comment. Sorry about that! Tl;dr - I am with you 100% for everything you said in this video.
OMG SO TRUE !!! I only read the books I brought. And NO ONE , not even my big sister or brother COULD TOUCH IT !!! And my OWN book shelf literally have this note saying " if you mess with my books ? I'll mess with you . 😉"
I have a signed copy of Legend series, and then one of my friends borrowed it without telling me. After like a month, he gave it back with the dust jacket missing, the signed page gone, it has a gum sticked to it, and I'm missing the page 108. You know what I did to him? I slapped the book through his face hard the side of his lips almost bleed. But he replaced it signed. After he replaced the book, I never lend my books to other, except my parents, because they're cool with it.
I remembered lending my mom a book I hadn't even read, and it got chewed by the dog. I kind of lost it, mainly because she couldn't understand why I would be so upset. I eventually got an apology, but I was over it by then. And more recently someone borrowed a book that I've had since I was like 8 years old. I had to ask over and over again to get it back. This book means a lot to me, if it didn't I wouldn't have kept it for over 20 years. I got it back.
When I loan a book to someone and that person asks if they can give it their friend for a while I just lie and say that I have someone else waiting on the book. LYING IS THE ONLY WAY OUT
Every time someone borrows me a book, I immediately feel an intense pressure to return it as soon as possible and to check all the possible imperfections it may have just to make sure that they weren't there because of me, yeah, it's really stressful to have a borrowed book but also I think it's something really nice to do with your friends (to borrow each others books) Great vid, you have a new subscriber!
Oh my god, literally the biggest problem for me right now. I have 4 books that I lend out last year, LAST YEAR, and they havnt been returned. I always ask, "hey so what page are you on" and usually they say ""oh I just need 10 more pages". BUT HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO READ 10 PAGES . I'm sorry I'm calm now. I loved this video(: I couldn't stop laughing, I feel your pain
The beginning was so funny! But YES! I understand you. I do not like lending out books because one day they are in perfect condition, then someone borrows it, and THEN it comes back like if it were 200 years old! That happenes to me, especially when they are paperbacks!
Omg, the thing you said about lending out books, and it felt like giving away our baby, that is so me. I can not even lend my books out any more cause no one seems to understand the value of them. Thank you for making this video!
I always remind my friends to return my books, but they never seem to listen. They even pass on the books to others who wanted to borrow without telling me. By the time I finally catch up to the person who has a book, it'll almost always be damaged. There was even this time when somebody borrowed 3 comic books of 6 volumes - 1 of them was an omnibus of 3 volumes, another an omnibus of 2, and I only got the latter back. I asked around but nobody would tell. Just because I'm no big collector doesn't mean I care about the books I own any less. I lend people my books because I know stories should be shared. But I am still the owner and my books are precious to me. I just wish they would respect that.
I'm that naive idiot that lends people books, encourages them to keep it until they have read it, and _never_ see it again. I think it's a pretty good sign that if someone is too lazy/cheap to even go to the library that they are not all that invested in reading. Excellent video! Sadly, it is an excruciating reality.
So know what you mean. I either do NOT get them back, or they get returned with pages missing, creased cover, etc. It even happens when I lend my books to my sisters.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who gets paranoid when I have book "out." I keep track of them in Goodreads, but yeah. People bend spines :( I only lend to people who I know appreciate books like I do and who would be horrified to return a book in less than perfect condition.
"Wow you have a lot of books." "Yeah, it's kinda my thing." This is me all the time, and it's also similar when saying how many books I read each year :P
Yes, so much yes! I sometimes feel bad because, y'know, they're my friends! But when my books come back all mangled... it legitimately makes me want to cry. A big example is the spines being broken... I don't go out of my way not to break them, I just never have, and I'm not entirely sure how you do it either! I actually went to my friend in tears (she lent me a book) because pages started falling out! She laughed because it was incredibly old and already doing that, but... if I feel that way about someone else's property, why don't they feel the same about mine!?! Anyway, new subscriber! Lol!
''Do I need to give you a bookmark too?!'' HAHA! You're the best. I never lend out books, learned my lesson by now. As soon as someone just starts talking about my books I say don't even ask about borrowing one. It's just too stressful. Great video! : ]
Great video. I've learned to say no to many people for all the reasons you mentioned! There's only a handful of people I lend books to now, and even that feels like giving away a part of me!
Hey, I'm from Italy and love all of your videos! And by the way... you just described what i feel when someone asks me to lend my books. Please continue your videos you have my full support!!!
Ha, ha! "GO HOME!" This was really funny at some parts but so so true! I also don't feel like lending books (especially to...strangers or not close friends) because of how they return them (really late or torn into pieces). I once had a book borrowed (one that I really loved) and the binding started to fall apart after I recieved it back! I was quite mad although I did not say it to that person. We need to learn to say "no" more often! C: PS: A friend of mine lent a whole series to someone and after a while they stopped talking due to some reasons and she lost her book series in this way. I think that we should lend books only to people that we trust.
I've missed your quirky, sketch videos! Love this! I don't really talk to people (not often, anyways) about books, so I haven't had this experience. But yeah, lending out your stuff or letting others use your stuff is very difficult when you don't know how they'll treat them. LOL --> Les "Miserable"
I feel you. My hardbound copy of the Last Olympian is apparently in oblivion because the person I lent it to lost it. I just can't... All those times and feels I had while reading that very book were now gone. And the issue here is that it's a Percy Jackson hardbound book. It's precious and expensive. Other than that, the rest of the PJO series are with me, but they're destroyed. The Battle of the Labyrinth cover was taped. The spines had lines. The pages were sticking out. I just can't help but mourn over all of them, my first ever series. I could feel my heart shattering every time I see them on my shelf. I plan to save for PJO books, but I do not know where to get the original covers because let's face it, original covers are still the best no matter how many covers they make. So tragic.
Oh my God, never in the history of TH-cam have I ever related to a video more. I have a friend who borrows 8-9 books at a time, and since we rarely meet, he keeps them for like a YEAR, sometimes longer. In fact, he sometimes loses them too. It is painful. Also, your TFIOS book broke my heart :'( I am so sorry that that happened to you, especially after it was signed :/
You sir have a very good point... Last few months were the first time that I lend out books, but I am actually NOT afraid to ask for them back and I tell them, 'damage the book and I will damage your face.' Ok, I only saw that to my closer friends but the my other friends that I'm nicer to, I just beg beg and beg them to take care of them and they tell me not to worry hahah
I'm with you on that. Reason why I don't lend out my books unless there already a little wrecked. My friends know me well enough to know not to take take it personally when I say no. My book shelf is already wayy to small for my liking people, and I do NOT want to loose my books
lol...so true...and i got my insurgent exactly one year later because my friend went abroad with the book! GODS! it was terrible.....i was basicaly dying in my sleep everyday wondering where my poor, poor insurgent book is
EXACTLY! For the same reason, I usually refuse to do the borrowing myself because I know how touchy I am about my books. I'll just opt to get it from the library or buy it for myself instead.
Oh, yeah, been there. I've lost too many books and so now I only lend books to my mom and brother and sister-in-law. They know how I am about my books and they're respectful of it!
Hahahah! Omigosh, this is me! And all of my friends. We all have books. We all go to each others houses, and when we see that one of us has a book that we don't own we beg to borrow it. The problem is--we're all book owners. So we hate giving our books out as we view them as our babies too! How do we fix this problem? I don't know. Drinks? Drinks and a book exchange? Either way, this too has happened to me and my friends! Thanks for sharing!
I FEEL YOU DUDE I FEEL YOU!!! I thought it's just me omg. But every time my friends wants to borrow my books i was like "NO. NO. STAY AWAY FROM MY BABIES"
OMG! This is my new favorite video!! I lent my 1st four Harry Potter books to an older cousin when I was 13ish and I never got them back when they meant the world to me! So this created quite a lending book trauma for me...So now I buy 90% of my books in English when I'm actually French so that I won't have to lend them to people...or so I thought, because now they're like "Omg you read in English! Can I try one of these?"
I can totally relate to you!! This happens every time I lend a book to someone. It's like, okay. I know you may not like the book as much as I do but when you give me back my baby all torn apart and bent, it doesn't exactly give you a good image in my mind. In fact, I might just ignore you for a while. The Les Miserables part made me crack up. XD
Love this!! It's so close to home I had to laugh so much or I'd be crying! I'm trying to stop lending because I'm fed up buying replacements for abductees or getting something unrecognisable back. One friend was forgiven though as she bought me a replacement when she dropped my book in the bath. She knew me too well :-)
PREACH!!!! God, this is seriously true. Like most of my friends look at my bookshelf too and that is seriously the reaction they ALWAYS have. The-begging-for-it-back-part is so freaking true. My friend borrowed my copy of the girl who played with fire in October of 2014 and I barely got it back in May of 2015. And my copy was HORRIBLE. The corners were bent, the book was soaked with water and there was this HUUUUUUUUGE red stain of like koolaid or some shit covering the whole book. And when she asks for more books I'm like "..............yeah...sure... But PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEASE take extreme good care of it"... They never do. Ugh.
I only somewhat mind lending out books. It's great when I get more people to read a book I love, like for instance, this past school year I lent out my copy of The Fault In Our Stars to about 5 different people (it was agonizing not having it). The one thing that I don't like though is how long it takes people to read the books, because I read my books super fast, so it's always weird for me when I ask someone if they're reading a book after about a couple of days and they aren't done with it....oh the struggles...
Thank you for making this video! I feel your pain... I refuse to loan books anymore because every single time I have, people just DO NOT give them back. Not just books either; it applies to CDs, movies or anything I let people borrow. it's so annoying because it seems to have become some kind of unspoken rule that when people borrow something, they're implying that have no intention of giving it back.
I love your book collection!!! I've read like all 8 of the 10 books you held in the video :) But, I understand your pain I'm going threw it right now. :(
I totally agree! I have gotten books back that looked like they took a swim and then fell off a cliff. Now I don't lend unless they are close family because they know how psycho ummm careful I am about my books or if I know they are just as careful. I also hand them a bookmark with the book so no excuse for bended corners.
I loan out my books a lot, but just to people I know will take care of them. Once in high school I lent out some of my manga to someone I was a bit iffy about and he returned three of them with the backs completely water logged with not even so much as an apology. I cut him off right away and made him pay me for the books so I could buy new ones. But with my best friends I let them go grab books from my room in New York (I'm currently living in Northern Ireland) when ever they want. I left a notebook out so they just write down what they borrow and when they took it out and returned it so when I come to visit I can check on my books. They've all been very good to my things and I never have to worry.
I completely agree! I lent my copy of the hunger games to 3 people and it came back as good as new, then I lent it to my brother and I found it 2 months later stuffed in the bottom of his bag...he hadn't even read it :(
Oh my god I feel the same! but I own only 8 books or so.. I bought Divergent the other day, but I was in a middle of another book, so I gave it to my best friend to read, and it got back with signs on the cover and just argggg...
I let a couple of friends read my TFIOS book (which was an exclusive editor's edition that my parents got me, so it had one of those really pretty silver covers) before I read it, and when I got it back, THE COVER WAS RIPPED AND PEELING. I took off the the cover because I'm afraid that it would be damaged even more. Plus, I didn't get it back for almost two months. And that's why I don't lend out books.
yes, that's the problem I'm struggling with too. Right now I have 5 books away and even when I always lend books to people I can trust they will not completely destroy them and there will be no problem to get them back, I still worry. A couple of days ago I had this situation where my friend was giving me back The perks of being a wallflower, saying she loved it. A friend of hers who was with her asked "oh my gosh, is it yours? I wanted to read it since forever! Can I borrow it? I read really fast, like tomorrow you're gonna have it back".. and I was like "um.. yeah.. sure". The problem is, I barely know her and don't know how I'm gonna enforce her to return me my book, because I don't see her around. But on the other hand, I like lending books to my friends, it's like spreading the love, sharing the joy with them. Sometimes I'm like "you have to read this, it's freaking awesome, here, have it" and I make them read, even when they're not convinced at first.
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I loaned out my copies of Twilight and New Moon FIVE YEARS AGO AND NEVER GOT THEM BACK. I bought new copies. And I have a new rule--I will loan out ONE book per person at a time and the dust jacket stays with me. If the book is returned damaged, YOU ARE BANNED FROM THE LIBRARY OF KAT FOR LIFE. I don't care if people think I'm a crazy book lady. They're right. My books are my preciouses.
BTW, you are totally nailing these daily vlogs so far! Keep it up! :)
It's so frustrating! I've had to ban many people.
And thank you! :)
For me it was Eclipse and Breaking Dawn... also five years ago... never saw them again either :( Now I have an e-reader :P
Holy crap. I lent my cousin New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.. and when I tried to ask for them back.. she said she didn't remember even borrowing them -_- So.. I had to re-buy them. Thank God for Strand. I grabbed them for like $2 each. Maybe it's something with the Twilight series lmaoo
- Briana
Same though
Katytastic I know right! PEOPLE THINK THEY DONT HAVE TO RETURN BOOKS RIGHT.
THIS VIDEO IS SO EXCELLENT. LOLOLOLOL i stopped lending books out.... in 5th grade when i lent my cousin Ronald Dahls THE WITCHES witch was my favorite non harry potter book in the whole wide world AND I NEVER GOT IT BACK.
Bah. I lent The Twits to someone, and the only reason I got it back was because I got to look through a box of stuff being given to a thrift store... yeahhh... my head almost exploded.
*Roald Dahl
*which
Roald Dahl's full name is Ronald Dahl
+Pjo Phangirl Where did you read this? He had norwegian heritage and was named after a norwegian guy called Roald Amundsen :)
I have this issue too. I tell everyone beforehand that I charge for damages towards the book.
1. Every ripped page is one dollar.
2. Each scratch, bend, or rips in the cover is two.
3. Every dog ear I find is fifty cents.
4. Damages to the binding are two dollars.
5. Food smears, pencil marks, or any of the sort are three dollars.
They usually give the book back to me, mumbling how they'll borrow it from someone else.
OMG! That's genius!
+Emily Stevenson It is. Me too
OMG YOU ARE SMART.
If you're not willing to go to the library to check out a book that you want to read, you obviously don't want to read the book enough. My books are NOT for your convenience.
I remember this one time, my friend wanted to borrow not one but 7 of my comic books. I was like 10 and those copies were from 1970-80 so they were precious yet I still got only 3 of them back.
Now I have my own library marks were I stick them on my book saying my name, details and due date... I even stamp them.
God me too. I seriously do that. Good to know I'm not alone. Plus, I am constantly reminding them if they are finished with the books or like if they're not gonna read it to give it back to me either right then and there or the next day.
I'm ridiculously paranoid about lending out books so half the time I just tell them to go to the library. Even with family members I'm like, "Okay..you can read it BUT RUIN IT AND YOU'RE BUYING ME ANOTHER ONE"
I'm in the same boat. I hate lending out books. I don't own any of my favorite books anymore because I've lent them out and never got them back. Never again.
My friend borrowed my first and third percy jackson books...when i lent them to her they were in mint condition...when i got them back the first book's cover was ripped, torn, and bent, and the third book's cover was ripped, torn, bent, and had a pink marker stain on it...she told me she dropped it on the floor...WHAT FLOOR!?!?
That is a crime punishable by a few good years listening to the Olympians fight and Zues's big ego. An alternative is going to Azkaban, talking to Demeter about farming, hanging out with Mr D, really, the list goes on and on
YOU KNOW. I was crying and having a really freaking bad day, but I came home, saw this in my subscriptions and watched it, and it made me laugh so hard. Thanks for making my day not suck so much.
Well I'm really sorry that you had a bad day, but I'm so glad to have helped make it better.
THIS IS THE MOST RELATABLE VIDEO I HAVE EVER SEEN!
This is awesome. And this is the reason I only lend books to my mom. One of my friends in high school borrowed Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants series and I never got them back. O_O Yep. If I let people borrow books, they have to be awesome book people like booktubers or book bloggers who appreciate books as much as i do.
Even with my mom I have to give her a bookmark.
Thanks! And yes, if I had booktube friends in real life, I'd share with them! I should make a contract.
TheBookTuber There is a contract: bookriot.com/2013/04/05/contract-for-potential-book-borrowers/
My Life in Books omg I am so going to use that contract!
I understand you. I'm kinda obsessed with my books and don't even like people coming close to it. When i lend some (wich is once in never) it's under the condition of returning me in at least five days. If the person do not read it, i go to their house and take it back. Rules are rules.
Oh my God, this like happens to me A LOT! And I know how hard it is to say no and when they walk away with my books I'll be like poking daggers at them in my head, saying "You better take care of those books!"
Oh my God you just summed up all of my feelings about lending books! I don't even lend them to my dad who lives in the same house because the way he holds them puts pressure on the spine which leads to it breaking, which happened to my beautiful illustrated copy of The Hobbit :C (and half of the pages of my sister's copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone FELL OUT because he bent the cover right around and pulled the binding apart). Whenever I see him holding it wrong I tell him but then he gets annoyed because he thinks he IS holding it carefully and I can't tell him how to hold it properly because I don't know how to teach people to do it because I just automatically do it. So now I only let him borrow books that are hardcover (but I don't let him have the jackets) or ones that are already old or have been accidentally damaged by me (I'm very careful, but sometimes things get dropped). I love him but I do not trust him with my books XD I'm also really anal about the time they've been out of my possession. Longer than two weeks and I get really antsy about having them back, but then on the same hand I borrow books from people and then get distracted by my own books and never end up reading them D: Although if I know I'm not going to read it for a long time I always give it back and say 'I have a lot of other things to read, but when I have time and if it's okay I'll borrow it again.'
Wow. This is a really long comment. Sorry about that!
Tl;dr - I am with you 100% for everything you said in this video.
OMG SO TRUE !!! I only read the books I brought. And NO ONE , not even my big sister or brother COULD TOUCH IT !!! And my OWN book shelf literally have this note saying " if you mess with my books ? I'll mess with you . 😉"
Finally someone understands me! Why haven't I heard of you before?! BTW love your Divergent posters!!
I have a signed copy of Legend series, and then one of my friends borrowed it without telling me. After like a month, he gave it back with the dust jacket missing, the signed page gone, it has a gum sticked to it, and I'm missing the page 108. You know what I did to him? I slapped the book through his face hard the side of his lips almost bleed. But he replaced it signed. After he replaced the book, I never lend my books to other, except my parents, because they're cool with it.
That intro... Priceless! Cannot stop laughing. 😄
TheBookTuber lol
I remembered lending my mom a book I hadn't even read, and it got chewed by the dog. I kind of lost it, mainly because she couldn't understand why I would be so upset. I eventually got an apology, but I was over it by then.
And more recently someone borrowed a book that I've had since I was like 8 years old. I had to ask over and over again to get it back. This book means a lot to me, if it didn't I wouldn't have kept it for over 20 years. I got it back.
When I loan a book to someone and that person asks if they can give it their friend for a while I just lie and say that I have someone else waiting on the book. LYING IS THE ONLY WAY OUT
All of us in the BookTube community feel your pain. Loved this video! I laughed so hard!
Thank you! :)
Literally my favourite video on booktube ... don't ask how many times I've rewatched this
Every time someone borrows me a book, I immediately feel an intense pressure to return it as soon as possible and to check all the possible imperfections it may have just to make sure that they weren't there because of me, yeah, it's really stressful to have a borrowed book but also I think it's something really nice to do with your friends (to borrow each others books) Great vid, you have a new subscriber!
Lol . "I am not a library. And if I am, I'm not open for business."
Loved the video. I know exactly what you mean.
He said it. He put it to words.
SAME. My mind will WORRY.
This video was great and super relatable! Loved it! :)
YOU ARE A GENIUS!!!! I'm happy I'm not the only one who feels like this!!!
THIS MAN SPEAKS TRUTH!!! I freaking love you for this! Thank You so much!!!!
Oh my god, literally the biggest problem for me right now. I have 4 books that I lend out last year, LAST YEAR, and they havnt been returned. I always ask, "hey so what page are you on" and usually they say ""oh I just need 10 more pages". BUT HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO READ 10 PAGES . I'm sorry I'm calm now. I loved this video(: I couldn't stop laughing, I feel your pain
The beginning was so funny! But YES! I understand you. I do not like lending out books because one day they are in perfect condition, then someone borrows it, and THEN it comes back like if it were 200 years old! That happenes to me, especially when they are paperbacks!
Omg, the thing you said about lending out books, and it felt like giving away our baby, that is so me. I can not even lend my books out any more cause no one seems to understand the value of them. Thank you for making this video!
The beginning made me laugh so hard. I remember lending my aunt The Casual Vacancy and I haven't seen it in five months.
I always remind my friends to return my books, but they never seem to listen. They even pass on the books to others who wanted to borrow without telling me. By the time I finally catch up to the person who has a book, it'll almost always be damaged. There was even this time when somebody borrowed 3 comic books of 6 volumes - 1 of them was an omnibus of 3 volumes, another an omnibus of 2, and I only got the latter back. I asked around but nobody would tell. Just because I'm no big collector doesn't mean I care about the books I own any less. I lend people my books because I know stories should be shared. But I am still the owner and my books are precious to me. I just wish they would respect that.
I'm so glad I never had this problem, but I sympathize with you. I'm sorry for the pain your books had to go through.
I'm that naive idiot that lends people books, encourages them to keep it until they have read it, and _never_ see it again.
I think it's a pretty good sign that if someone is too lazy/cheap to even go to the library that they are not all that invested in reading.
Excellent video! Sadly, it is an excruciating reality.
So know what you mean. I either do NOT get them back, or they get returned with pages missing, creased cover, etc. It even happens when I lend my books to my sisters.
YOU GET ME DUDE .YOU.GET.ME
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who gets paranoid when I have book "out." I keep track of them in Goodreads, but yeah. People bend spines :( I only lend to people who I know appreciate books like I do and who would be horrified to return a book in less than perfect condition.
"Wow you have a lot of books."
"Yeah, it's kinda my thing."
This is me all the time, and it's also similar when saying how many books I read each year :P
Yes, so much yes! I sometimes feel bad because, y'know, they're my friends! But when my books come back all mangled... it legitimately makes me want to cry. A big example is the spines being broken... I don't go out of my way not to break them, I just never have, and I'm not entirely sure how you do it either! I actually went to my friend in tears (she lent me a book) because pages started falling out! She laughed because it was incredibly old and already doing that, but... if I feel that way about someone else's property, why don't they feel the same about mine!?!
Anyway, new subscriber! Lol!
''Do I need to give you a bookmark too?!'' HAHA! You're the best. I never lend out books, learned my lesson by now. As soon as someone just starts talking about my books I say don't even ask about borrowing one. It's just too stressful. Great video! : ]
Great video. I've learned to say no to many people for all the reasons you mentioned! There's only a handful of people I lend books to now, and even that feels like giving away a part of me!
Hey, I'm from Italy and love all of your videos! And by the way... you just described what i feel when someone asks me to lend my books.
Please continue your videos you have my full support!!!
Ha, ha! "GO HOME!"
This was really funny at some parts but so so true! I also don't feel like lending books (especially to...strangers or not close friends) because of how they return them (really late or torn into pieces). I once had a book borrowed (one that I really loved) and the binding started to fall apart after I recieved it back! I was quite mad although I did not say it to that person.
We need to learn to say "no" more often! C:
PS: A friend of mine lent a whole series to someone and after a while they stopped talking due to some reasons and she lost her book series in this way. I think that we should lend books only to people that we trust.
the part pronouncing les miserables made my day, so many people always kept pronouncing it wrong in that way it is so true
I've missed your quirky, sketch videos! Love this! I don't really talk to people (not often, anyways) about books, so I haven't had this experience. But yeah, lending out your stuff or letting others use your stuff is very difficult when you don't know how they'll treat them. LOL --> Les "Miserable"
I feel you. My hardbound copy of the Last Olympian is apparently in oblivion because the person I lent it to lost it. I just can't... All those times and feels I had while reading that very book were now gone. And the issue here is that it's a Percy Jackson hardbound book. It's precious and expensive. Other than that, the rest of the PJO series are with me, but they're destroyed. The Battle of the Labyrinth cover was taped. The spines had lines. The pages were sticking out. I just can't help but mourn over all of them, my first ever series. I could feel my heart shattering every time I see them on my shelf. I plan to save for PJO books, but I do not know where to get the original covers because let's face it, original covers are still the best no matter how many covers they make. So tragic.
THIS IS SO EFFING ACCURATE
Oh my God, never in the history of TH-cam have I ever related to a video more.
I have a friend who borrows 8-9 books at a time, and since we rarely meet, he keeps them for like a YEAR, sometimes longer. In fact, he sometimes loses them too.
It is painful.
Also, your TFIOS book broke my heart :'( I am so sorry that that happened to you, especially after it was signed :/
THIS IS SO ACCURATE. Love love love this vid.
"Are these any good? No." I died laughing because it's completely true after the first three.
This video was amazing, so freaking accurate.
You sir have a very good point... Last few months were the first time that I lend out books, but I am actually NOT afraid to ask for them back and I tell them, 'damage the book and I will damage your face.' Ok, I only saw that to my closer friends but the my other friends that I'm nicer to, I just beg beg and beg them to take care of them and they tell me not to worry hahah
I'm the same with my books and my Supernatural DVDs, they are my babies!
I'm with you on that. Reason why I don't lend out my books unless there already a little wrecked. My friends know me well enough to know not to take take it personally when I say no. My book shelf is already wayy to small for my liking people, and I do NOT want to loose my books
The Maze Runner part is SO true!
This speaks to me on so many levels.
This is my favourite video ever.
lol...so true...and i got my insurgent exactly one year later because my friend went abroad with the book! GODS! it was terrible.....i was basicaly dying in my sleep everyday wondering where my poor, poor insurgent book is
EXACTLY! For the same reason, I usually refuse to do the borrowing myself because I know how touchy I am about my books. I'll just opt to get it from the library or buy it for myself instead.
Oh, yeah, been there. I've lost too many books and so now I only lend books to my mom and brother and sister-in-law. They know how I am about my books and they're respectful of it!
Hahahah! Omigosh, this is me! And all of my friends. We all have books. We all go to each others houses, and when we see that one of us has a book that we don't own we beg to borrow it. The problem is--we're all book owners. So we hate giving our books out as we view them as our babies too! How do we fix this problem? I don't know. Drinks? Drinks and a book exchange? Either way, this too has happened to me and my friends! Thanks for sharing!
I don't know how often I've already watched this but it's so hilarious! and sadly so true..
Great video! I feel the same way. I lend out a book more than 6 months ago and now I have to ask it back EVERYDAY UGHHH
I FEEL YOU DUDE I FEEL YOU!!! I thought it's just me omg. But every time my friends wants to borrow my books i was like "NO. NO. STAY AWAY FROM MY BABIES"
OMG! This is my new favorite video!! I lent my 1st four Harry Potter books to an older cousin when I was 13ish and I never got them back when they meant the world to me! So this created quite a lending book trauma for me...So now I buy 90% of my books in English when I'm actually French so that I won't have to lend them to people...or so I thought, because now they're like "Omg you read in English! Can I try one of these?"
OH MY GOSH!!!!! This happens to me too! I don't even bring some of my books to school because people always ask me if they can borrow them.
I can totally relate to you!! This happens every time I lend a book to someone. It's like, okay. I know you may not like the book as much as I do but when you give me back my baby all torn apart and bent, it doesn't exactly give you a good image in my mind. In fact, I might just ignore you for a while. The Les Miserables part made me crack up. XD
I'm also really obsessed with this issue! I only lend books to people who know my obsession about books and just DON'T DESTROY it!!
Just found your channel LOVE IT! And I thought I was the only one who felt that way toward books. WOW I guess it's normal
Love this!! It's so close to home I had to laugh so much or I'd be crying! I'm trying to stop lending because I'm fed up buying replacements for abductees or getting something unrecognisable back. One friend was forgiven though as she bought me a replacement when she dropped my book in the bath. She knew me too well :-)
i feel this video in my soul.
Lol, "do i need to give you a bookmark too!?" Haha!!!
i connect to this video on a spiritual level
and this is hilarious ohmygod
hahahaha this is everything. It totally speaks to me. What book lover hasn't been here? So glad I found your channel!! :)
I agree with you! This video is so accurate!
This. Is. Perfect
Finally someone who understands my books
"My SIGNED copy of TFiOS..."
YOU LOANED THAT OUT?????????????????
PREACH!!!! God, this is seriously true. Like most of my friends look at my bookshelf too and that is seriously the reaction they ALWAYS have. The-begging-for-it-back-part is so freaking true. My friend borrowed my copy of the girl who played with fire in October of 2014 and I barely got it back in May of 2015. And my copy was HORRIBLE. The corners were bent, the book was soaked with water and there was this HUUUUUUUUGE red stain of like koolaid or some shit covering the whole book. And when she asks for more books I'm like "..............yeah...sure... But PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEASE take extreme good care of it"... They never do. Ugh.
I only somewhat mind lending out books. It's great when I get more people to read a book I love, like for instance, this past school year I lent out my copy of The Fault In Our Stars to about 5 different people (it was agonizing not having it). The one thing that I don't like though is how long it takes people to read the books, because I read my books super fast, so it's always weird for me when I ask someone if they're reading a book after about a couple of days and they aren't done with it....oh the struggles...
Also though, I never borrow books, I always lend them out,
Yes, yeees, YEEES! My books... r my life.... i cant.... i just cant leave them
Thank you for making this video! I feel your pain... I refuse to loan books anymore because every single time I have, people just DO NOT give them back. Not just books either; it applies to CDs, movies or anything I let people borrow. it's so annoying because it seems to have become some kind of unspoken rule that when people borrow something, they're implying that have no intention of giving it back.
Same thing happens to me!! I feel you!
Brilliant and accurate portrayal of truth!
Definitely can relate. I rarely lend my books out anymore.
I love your book collection!!! I've read like all 8 of the 10 books you held in the video :) But, I understand your pain I'm going threw it right now. :(
I totally agree! I have gotten books back that looked like they took a swim and then fell off a cliff. Now I don't lend unless they are close family because they know how psycho ummm careful I am about my books or if I know they are just as careful. I also hand them a bookmark with the book so no excuse for bended corners.
I loan out my books a lot, but just to people I know will take care of them. Once in high school I lent out some of my manga to someone I was a bit iffy about and he returned three of them with the backs completely water logged with not even so much as an apology. I cut him off right away and made him pay me for the books so I could buy new ones. But with my best friends I let them go grab books from my room in New York (I'm currently living in Northern Ireland) when ever they want. I left a notebook out so they just write down what they borrow and when they took it out and returned it so when I come to visit I can check on my books. They've all been very good to my things and I never have to worry.
Yeah that is so true and my mom thinks that's selfish but I payed for them myself and I don't want them ruined
"Are these any good?"
"No."
So perfect xD
I completely agree! I lent my copy of the hunger games to 3 people and it came back as good as new, then I lent it to my brother and I found it 2 months later stuffed in the bottom of his bag...he hadn't even read it :(
Love this very funny but very true!
Oh my god I feel the same! but I own only 8 books or so..
I bought Divergent the other day, but I was in a middle of another book, so I gave it to my best friend to read, and it got back with signs on the cover and just argggg...
I love this so true and I love the style of this video hope to see more like this in December
I let a couple of friends read my TFIOS book (which was an exclusive editor's edition that my parents got me, so it had one of those really pretty silver covers) before I read it, and when I got it back, THE COVER WAS RIPPED AND PEELING. I took off the the cover because I'm afraid that it would be damaged even more. Plus, I didn't get it back for almost two months. And that's why I don't lend out books.
THIS IS SO ACCURATE! omg.
yes, that's the problem I'm struggling with too. Right now I have 5 books away and even when I always lend books to people I can trust they will not completely destroy them and there will be no problem to get them back, I still worry. A couple of days ago I had this situation where my friend was giving me back The perks of being a wallflower, saying she loved it. A friend of hers who was with her asked "oh my gosh, is it yours? I wanted to read it since forever! Can I borrow it? I read really fast, like tomorrow you're gonna have it back".. and I was like "um.. yeah.. sure". The problem is, I barely know her and don't know how I'm gonna enforce her to return me my book, because I don't see her around. But on the other hand, I like lending books to my friends, it's like spreading the love, sharing the joy with them. Sometimes I'm like "you have to read this, it's freaking awesome, here, have it" and I make them read, even when they're not convinced at first.