Being a mood reader, I don’t like being pressured to finish a book in a certain time so I tend to buy a book even though it’s free and available at my library.
My toxic reader trait is falling in love with one of the characters, making them my comfort character, and adopting them as my entire personality for the extent that that particular hyperfixation lasts.
My toxic reader trait is never taking notes or writing reviews and then forgetting most of it except for the basic plot. My long-term recollections consist of, "I remember that novel being fun." or "I remember highly agreeing with that nonfiction." Don't ask me to go into details.
my toxic trait is adding books to my tbr but never reading the books on my tbr. Instead I read a completely new book I randomly pick up in the library while my tbr gets longer
When someone tells me I should read a book, I automatically don’t want to read it. A prime example of this: My mom told me I should read Agatha Christie, so I avoided it for years. Then one of her books was required reading for one of my college classes, and I was hooked. I now have all 80+ of her published books on my reading list.
my toxic reader trait is beginning a book, liking it and then toss it in the corner for the next few months (well, the same goes for movies and series...)
Me too! I still refuse to write in books, but I’ve bought colored tabs and made a key for myself so I can start annotating my books that way without permanently marking them up! I’ll also keep a notebook or even just a note in my phone for more extensive thoughts or theories for next books in series etc! It’s a nice little in between of not annotating at all and marking up your precious books lol
My problem is that I _used_ to binge read, literally ALL the freaking time, and I used to just stick with a series until I was caught up to every book available in it at the time; so I stockpiled a ton of books/series back then, but life shite happened and things changed hella drastically, and now I'm just like 👀 _crying inside_ 💔😭😭 .. feel like I'm never going to read them all. It's so tragic.
the inability to describe books and the annotating books one are so true and people automatically assume that you write deep stuff, what am i supposed to do when they see 90% of it is me saying "ha" "oh no" "shady"
My toxic traits are reading 6 books at a time and confusing the storylines of all them if they’re even a little bit similar. Also, as an avid library user, I check out up to the check out limit and continue to renew the loans because I read a book on my kindle instead 🙃
Me doing that (the renewing library books thing) but not picking up the book and searching for the audiobook on Libby instead so I can get other projects done while enjoying the story. Lol.
My toxic reader trait is finishing a series even when I’ve read the first book and hated it. I know I should just DNF the series but the lizard part of my brain is like “maybe it will get better” and most of the time it just gets worse
Jessy speaking 1325 words per minute when it comes to books. ❤️ We have something in common, I am also "the reader". And each times parents try to scold me for buying a lot of books I will be like DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY BOOKS. 😠(The same goes when someone wants to borrow my book btw). I really wanna have deluxe editions of all the books I love but I am as poor as the church mouse.🐁
Toxic reader traits of mine: -I sometimes start a few books at the same time, which means that at least one of the books I've started is likely to be abandoned, even if I'm enjoying it -I go through periods when I read around 15 books a month followed by other months when I only read around 2 books, which makes it harder to stick to a reading challenge -I cannot stand having to read books because of external pressure. For example, it's very hard to motivate myself to read a uni book, because I always have other plans when it comes to what I want to be reading. -I buy too many books that I don't end up reading.
My biggest "toxic" trait, if you can call it that, is that I can't bear to see I DNFed a book. On my Goodreads and Storygraph, instead of DNFing it, I just remove it from my books and pretend I never tried reading it lol. Also, it takes one or two good reviews on the first book to make me buy a whole series without reading a letter, but when my mind is set on on reading a book there is no amount of bad reviews that will change my mind. I may end up loving it or hating it, but I gave it a fair chance, unless I DNFed it, but there is no evidence for that hahahhaha
i can relate to the author thing. the author of my fav book, after several years after said book, came out with a new one and i was so pumped and i got like 75 pages into it and i was like "wow... this is geuinely trash" and i haven't read anything of hers since because i'm so scared of growing a distaste of her work(s)
7:03 I just need more than one book at the time, I can’t just stick to one. I do this with tv series too. (I watch like 20+ shows at the same time, one episode of this show, two of this other show and so on (unless I really enjoy something, then I’ll binge watch it)
Loved the video! My toxic trait would be never recommending my all-time favourite books - I just want to keep my precious darlings to myself to protect them from mean opinions and also just so that they belong to me aloneee >:)
this is a recommendation for everyone in the comments since I know Jesse probably won't take my recommendation lol. In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park is one of my top books that I have ever read. It is her autobiography about how she escaped North Korea and it is so emotional. I honestly respect her so much more after reading it. I've been following her on youtube for a few years now but I read her book in 2020. It is a book I hope more people read.
I have a lot of bookmarks too. Do you match your bookmark to the current book you are reading like I do? It's fun and I find it helps justify the collection. Maybe try sticking in a matching bookmark at the table of contents of each book. That way you'll be ready to go whenever you pick up a book to read or reread it. Or make it part of a book ritual to pick out a special bookmark out of the collection of them when you start a new book. It's a little hard to remember at first but it's easy once the habit is formed. And yes, I totally get the wanting to make better displays thing. I used to make displays when I worked in an independent bookstore. I occasionally will find myself adding a book to a display, usually at the library, if there is that missing space because someone took a book off the display, and no one bothered to fill it in yet.
Definitly the need to binge-read. And I didn't even read series!! My anxiety that leaves me to read spoilers, not that I won't read them next but I'm scared that I won't understand them. Finally, try to become everyone into a reader!!🤗
Buying books has always made me very joyful 😄 so any time I get sad or am in a bad situation I’ll stop buy a BnN and spend a few bucks. I stopped by the bookstore just to use the restroom last week and left with four books and a new journal.
5:23 omg I do this with books and tv shows. If it’s too popular I’m just really scared it’s overhyped or something (most of the time it isn’t, but I’m still scared)
i love that i haven’t watched you in actual years but when you were talking about your favorite book, i immediately knew that it was ms. peregrines home for peculiar children because of how much you used to talk about it. it’s still my favorite too.
I’m with you on the bookmarks and another trait I have is in the middle of reading, I think of another book and stop the current book to start the book I thought of and then switch between the two until I end up with like 6 books and then race to finish them all, so I don’t have a DNF pile. #hellatoxic
my toxic trait is absolutely having to finish a series even after it's lost the charm... i just keep at it because I get attached to the characters and then it takes me far too long to be done with it and be able to move on to something more enjoyable
I've bought a bunch of books by one author, as soon as they came out, because I saw two new books by her in hardcover and thought "oh, I'll get them when the paperbacks come out" and that took like five years. Never saw the hardcovers again and Amazon wasn't a thing yet. (Yes, I'm ancient.) Still have to read like half of them. Fortunately, it's an episodic series, so order doesn't matter, which helps with mood reading and series. My bad habit with bookmarks is leaving them in partially read books and not being able to find them all again. Love those tiny magnetic ones, but they're easy to overlook. I suspect some of them have been returned with library books.
I was telling someone they should read Nevermoor (Cuz everyone should!) & she asked me what it was about.. I made it sound so boring. 😆 So I decided I had to prepare a pitch for it. Which I practice in the mirror.. Lol I use my bookmarks.. But I also have this thing where I want them to match the book I'm reading. Like I can't read this vampire book because I can't find my vampire bookmark?!?
Yes yes that’s my toxic trait about popular books too. I think it comes from never having any popular items growing up (I.e. toys, books, clothes) that I’m like anti-popular now. Though I also fall prey to FOMO as well… and do want the good books. But I also get scared that the hyped up books will be too hyped up and therefore I’ll just hate them on principle. I’m toxic in my toxicity!
I own too many bookmarks. One of my favorite books series second book went out of print and I know I should've bought it years ago. My other toxic trait is checking out too many library books and holding on to them for a while even though I'm a fast reader, it's a lot of books.
I am the opposite with bookmarks. I always pick one out that suits the cover or I think would fit with the description and I have even swapped out a bookmark if I find that it does not fit. Also I have way less bookmarks than Jesse, but I make my own by watercoloring bookmark sized pieces of paper, so my collection will eventually grow.
1:44 If someone asked me about book and wants me to explain...the first thing i will ask if they going to read it? If they answer NO then why should i explain myself to them .... if YES then i will ask them to read it and found out about it ..
Not giving authors a second chance - yeah, that’s me! I very rarely read an author again if I gave the first book I read from them three stars or less. I only will if the premise of another book REALLY grabs me. Thankfully, this was the case with Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary. I loved The Martian but then HATED his second book, Artemis, so I wasn’t planning on picking him up again, but Project Hail Mary sounded so great… and it ended up being my favorite book of 2021 and a new favorite of all time. My other toxic trait is constantly critiquing and editing a book in my head as I read it. As a writer, it just happens naturally and I can’t stop it! I’m sure I would enjoy most books more if I wasn’t a writer.
My toxic trait is being unable to dnf a book. I just see myself as a failure. I get scared of starting a book because I don’t want to be trapped if I hate it. I have dnf-ed 3 books in 2 years but that is because they were so extremely bad I physically couldn’t read another page. I just wish I could dnf more often because then I would start books more fearlessly.
Most of the time I keep reading books I want to dnf because "who knows it could get better“. It almost never does. Then I get mad at myself because I wasted valuable reading time in a book I didn't like 😶
I tried out the 50 page rule where if you aren't liking it or hooked by page 50 stop reading it, and that helped me to decide by around that page count if I was going to have to drag myself through a book or not. Sometimes it's because I'm a mood reader and I just don't happen to be in that particular mood, and sometimes it's because I legitimately don't like the book. It takes some practice, and I didn't get rid of books for a while so I could change my mind if I wanted to after reading something else, but now I can tell better whether or not I'm going to like a book and I don't feel as bad putting some books down. Reading is my fun time, after all. If I'm not having fun, then why read it?
my toxic reader trait is that any and all info about any books falls out of my head the instant anyone wants to talk about it, do not ever ask me for a book recommendation because suddenly, "o no i cant read"
The bloopers are fantastic 🤣 and I 110% share your toxic bookmark trait. I also buy books by my favorite authors and then not read them because what if they're not as good as their other books?! Also not finishing series and having a full kindle library but forgetting its there and never reading those books.... 😬
Omg Jesse, can totally relate to most of those especially the bookmark one haha. And I can't remember the last time I finished a series. Ah the reader fate. 💛💛
Yes! I don’t take recs either books or tv etc. besides booktubers of course , when I tell friends to read things and am excited when they do and like it then they tell me one but it’s not up my alley
Once i finished a book, I no longer remember any of the characters name that a colleague of mine said how come you finished it but you dont remember any names? Ah well, hello - welcome to my world! 🤣🤣🤣
Same. I think I only remembered the names in Game of Thrones because the beginning of every chapter had their name in giant bold letters. That kind of helped.
When I was in high school, everyone was raving about The Hunger Games and I was told I should read it. And I was like "oh a popular book? Ew, no." And then it was required reading in English class... I ended up reading the entire trilogy within the week and it got me back into reading.....
When you talked about bookmarks I was like oh no I do that too😂 Like I have 3 really special fancy bookmarks that are all in books I haven't finished, so I got more and now I haven't used any of my new ones.. like I love bookmarks so I don't get why I do this haha
My toxic reader trait is borrowing books from the library when I'm in the mood to read them then not returning them for 5 months because I'm never in the mood to read them again
Main one. I keep starting book series before looking to see if the whole series is in audio format..... There is nothing more frustrating than really loving a series and you can't finish it. I mean I guess I could if I was willing to put up with the week long migraine. Which I'm not. I have 20+ series that I can't finish because authors/publishers don't release all of them in audio. There should seriously be something in the contract that if you release one in audio format you have to release the entire thing. I have wasted soo many hours, seriously it blows my mind, on series that I can't finish. I also have a 5T external drive full of audiobooks. At least half are unread. Thankfully I love a reread, well relisten, so I do get my money worth. I really should do a title by title delete day and go thru the ones I either didn't like or lost interest in. Is it still unhaulting if there wasn't a haul to begin with?
I relate sooooo hard!!!! I'm always recommending books to my parents and my friends (my friends don't really read but still) and whenever my parents recommend me books I still feel this great aversion to that lmao. Which is really not fair as my dad read Scythe because I kept insisting he'd love it (which he did btw) in exchange for me reading the Daughter of The Empire and I didn't... We made this deal in February.... OOPS Also, my entire personality is also reading, and IKEA, as I am a fulltime IKEA employee, at work I'm always talking about books, so much so that my co-workers have started to say, "Oh you and your books". And one of the security guards even asks me periodically how many books I've read so far and what I'm currently reading, even though he doesn't read himself, he doesn't have the patience and focus for it. So long story short, I relate
My toxic reader trait, at the moment, is having too many books/series that I've started but haven't finished for literal years even though I had no desire to DNF them. 👀
Haha loved this I was the same with collecting bookmarks, but don't do that anymore I don't think I have these traits. Maybe DNFing a lot of books, but I personally think there is not enough time to be reading books I don't like
This was actually a really great video, and I had a ton of fun watching it, as always!!!! Might even rewatch it sometime; I'm tempted to rewatch it r/n, but I can't 'cause I have to get up early in the morning and beec to catch some sleep(unfortunately😿😿)^--^ 💜💖💜💜
literally all the same traits except for the out of print thing because I've honestly never thought about that before. And recently I've been trying to find a Horror book that blew up and has gone out of print. :(
My two most toxic reader traits are adding to my tbr while still having over 100 books on it and buying a whole series instead of just book one even though I don’t know if I’ll like it but the premise sounded interesting so I do it anyway.
Jesse! I got into the habit of sticking a bookmark in the front cover of a book, BEFORE it goes onto my bookshelf. That way, I always have a bookmark for whatever book I'm reading (even if it takes me 4 years to get to a book). Also...if I see I have spare bookmarks, it just means I can buy more books!! ....right? 😶
Mine is that I smack people when they touch my book while I'm reading when they are trying to get my attention for important reasons but I just ignor them
Okay, no no no, I TOTALLY get buying a whole series at a time. Having mismatched covers is the WORST. I have the initial run of Percy Jackson covers in paperback...except for The Last Olympian, which is in hardcover. And now I can 👏 not👏 find 👏 it in paperback with the original cover art and it drives me nuts when I see it. Buuuut I also have Tom Clancy in every shape, size, color, and cover style, sooooo...
Among my many toxic reader traits is brooding over which books to take on vacation. Shouldn't I be packing clothes, shoes, toiletries, my sunscreen, passport...? Yes, of course, but do I want to take three books? Four? This paperback, because it's lighter in weight, but maybe this hardback is more appropriate for my destination? And so on, and so on...
Ah, yes: the "favorite book" question. I agree that is such a simple yet complicated question. If I'm around readers and I want to conversation to stir towards books, I instead ask "What are you currently reading?" Then, I can start with questions about genres and authors. I can land on a favorite book eventually. I used to work at BAM. I set up display tables on occasion. In the beginning, I would go out of my way to make the display look cool. When I walk by the table at a later time, my design has been erased. I once jokingly called out my manager about it. She said that, while she loved my design, the purpose was to actually get as many titles and as many copies of those titles on the table. I get it. The display tables have a very simple design for a practical purpose.
Toxic reader trait: Checking out a book from some library with the intention of reading it but than reverting to a book I have on my personal shelf. Then I return the library book without finishing it and never go back to it 👀
My toxic reader trait is that I remove the Gregory Maguire books from the YA section of the thrift store books and put them in the adult section where they belong.
My big toxic reader trait is buying books on my kindle for the better deal, then forgetting about/not reading them… I also tend to put off popular books.! There was a string of popular books I read one year that I either disliked or were meh, or people whose reviews I trusted ended up saying it didn’t live up to the hype (even when they had been super excited for it), so I was a lot more cautious after that. It also takes me a while because I try to get books from the library if I’m worried about not liking a new book and having wasted $ in an expensive hardback, and my library takes forever to get new books, especially new YA. I also have a hard time giving authors second chances, although I’m a little more forgiving if I had only read their debut, because hopefully they’ve grown as a writer since then.
I understand the not giving a second chance. I've been putting of reading any more Shadowhunters books for months now after reading the Mortal Instruments (seriously I wanted to throw my book at the wall because of Clary's stupidity and selfishness), even though the Infernal Devices, which I read first, is one of my favourite book series.
Hahaha I relate to the bookmarks! I always get those little magnetic ones and my friends buy me bookmarks and the next time I have need of one oh here let me use this reciept
Buying books on Kindle when I know I very rarely read e books. I see the two dollar price tag and can't help it. Or buying books on pre-order and then not reading them for a year after they come out
My toxic reader trait is forcing myself to finish a book (sometimes even a series) even when I can't stand the book. Like, for some reason I would rather skim through every page and be miserable than to just DNF it and call it a day.
Omg same, I just hate to DNF. I would also get the audiobook and play it at 1.5x/2x speed (barely listening it) to finish the book quickly instead of DNF.
i feel called out by the annotating thing, i usually "converse" with the characters? book im reading currently has just whole margins filled with insults towards the main character lmao
I think my toxic reader trait is that when I'm in a bad mental space and lose the energy to read, I get so desperate to _want_ to read that I start requesting every book I've ever been interested in from the library. it's not like I don't always have at least 10 books checked out at a time, but it'll be close to 25, all of which I actually feel lukewarm towards or don't particularly feel pulled to in that moment, and then they just sit in a pile in my room, and both of us wish that I was not ~like this~
Not me relating to all of these👀 Toxic trait: starting a book, getting a new book, starting that book, getting another new book, starting that book and ending up in a cycle of half read books
If you buy the whole series at the same time you can make sure they’ll sit evenly on the shelf! But I recently started buying only the first book in a series and waiting until I’ve read it to to buy the rest just in case I don’t like it. Unless it’s at a used bookstore or a thrift shop. You’d have to be crazy not to buy a full book series at a thrift store if they’re all there and waiting for you.
When I start reading books from a new popular author, my brain is convinced that I have to start with their debut. Even though that makes no sense, but it just doesn’t feel right not too.
I’m always afraid that if I read the debut later I will think it’s worse because they’ve grown and I won’t like it as a result. So I read the debut first but also why??
toxic reader trait I have books I've started but then I just don't ever get back to them and I keep telling myself ill read it eventually but five months later I still haven't read it!
I also have a ton of bookmarks I don't use lying around. But I actually want to buy more because somehow I really like to use the "right" bookmark and I have a lot of fantasy bookmarks, but none that would fit a mystery or a thriller. Why can't I just use a random bookmark?? I'm also currently reading 9 books because... mood reader.
My toxic reader trait is that I read like tons of books in a short time and then don't pick up a book for months
This! Yess! That’s me!!!!
I'm right there with you 😅
Same!!!
I don't think that's toxic I think it's just a slump. Everybody goes through it.
Same
Being a mood reader, I don’t like being pressured to finish a book in a certain time so I tend to buy a book even though it’s free and available at my library.
I buy do many books becouse of fomo
My toxic reader trait is falling in love with one of the characters, making them my comfort character, and adopting them as my entire personality for the extent that that particular hyperfixation lasts.
Not me thinking this is normal 👁👄👁 bc same
Me too 💀 it’s always the minor characters that there’s very little content for as well for me
Relatable, only when the main character gets hurt or is sad then I'll be sad to and can't read the book anymore
My toxic reader trait is never taking notes or writing reviews and then forgetting most of it except for the basic plot. My long-term recollections consist of, "I remember that novel being fun." or "I remember highly agreeing with that nonfiction." Don't ask me to go into details.
my toxic trait is adding books to my tbr but never reading the books on my tbr. Instead I read a completely new book I randomly pick up in the library while my tbr gets longer
That is literally all of us lol
I read books from my tbr yet it still gets bigger. It's a perpetual growth that can't be stopped.
my tbr is never ending bc i go "tbr shopping" when i dont have money (libraries aren't a thing here) and never picking them up 🙈
My tbr list goes on and on and on….it has a spontaneous growth
@@BrianIsWatching physical tbr: it started with 10 books, i though no problem there, over 700 books, know i admit i have a problem.
"but if I don't buy it I'll regret it" 😂😂😂😂 dude relatable
When someone tells me I should read a book, I automatically don’t want to read it. A prime example of this: My mom told me I should read Agatha Christie, so I avoided it for years. Then one of her books was required reading for one of my college classes, and I was hooked. I now have all 80+ of her published books on my reading list.
Agatha Kristie is just amazing. My favorite book of hers is Then there were none. Just perfect
@@jeanaoun3897 That one was the book I read in college. 😁
she's my fav author!
I'm the same way, my mom and my brother have been trying to get me to read Harry Potter for years, still haven't done it fully
A trait I got from my dad: Reading the last page or chapter to build suspense… or ruin the whole thing for myself.
my toxic reader trait is beginning a book, liking it and then toss it in the corner for the next few months (well, the same goes for movies and series...)
I give you points for being able to even annotate, I get so anxious when it comes to writing in my books lol
What helped me is thinking of the book as a notebook
Me too! I still refuse to write in books, but I’ve bought colored tabs and made a key for myself so I can start annotating my books that way without permanently marking them up! I’ll also keep a notebook or even just a note in my phone for more extensive thoughts or theories for next books in series etc! It’s a nice little in between of not annotating at all and marking up your precious books lol
@@AliviaHaven I use tabs too, and I write in pencil that way it's a good middle ground because I can't bring myself to write with a pen...
@@gracie9658 lmfaaooo I felt that. Ink is a huge commitment and not all of us are quite there yet 😂😂
My problem is that I _used_ to binge read, literally ALL the freaking time, and I used to just stick with a series until I was caught up to every book available in it at the time; so I stockpiled a ton of books/series back then, but life shite happened and things changed hella drastically, and now I'm just like 👀 _crying inside_ 💔😭😭 .. feel like I'm never going to read them all. It's so tragic.
the inability to describe books and the annotating books one are so true
and people automatically assume that you write deep stuff, what am i supposed to do when they see 90% of it is me saying "ha" "oh no" "shady"
My toxic traits are reading 6 books at a time and confusing the storylines of all them if they’re even a little bit similar.
Also, as an avid library user, I check out up to the check out limit and continue to renew the loans because I read a book on my kindle instead 🙃
Me doing that (the renewing library books thing) but not picking up the book and searching for the audiobook on Libby instead so I can get other projects done while enjoying the story. Lol.
Possibly the most relatable video on Booktube. Sidenote: Jesse looks lovely in that lavender color.
I was thinking the same thing! It works so perfectly with his colour. Eyes, hair, skin, all popping beautifully next to that colour.
My toxic reader trait is finishing a series even when I’ve read the first book and hated it. I know I should just DNF the series but the lizard part of my brain is like “maybe it will get better” and most of the time it just gets worse
Jessy speaking 1325 words per minute when it comes to books. ❤️
We have something in common, I am also "the reader". And each times parents try to scold me for buying a lot of books I will be like DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY BOOKS. 😠(The same goes when someone wants to borrow my book btw).
I really wanna have deluxe editions of all the books I love but I am as poor as the church mouse.🐁
I totally get the special-edition buying dilemma too.
And the fear of things going out of print, or changing covers to something I like less.
Toxic reader traits of mine:
-I sometimes start a few books at the same time, which means that at least one of the books I've started is likely to be abandoned, even if I'm enjoying it
-I go through periods when I read around 15 books a month followed by other months when I only read around 2 books, which makes it harder to stick to a reading challenge
-I cannot stand having to read books because of external pressure. For example, it's very hard to motivate myself to read a uni book, because I always have other plans when it comes to what I want to be reading.
-I buy too many books that I don't end up reading.
My biggest "toxic" trait, if you can call it that, is that I can't bear to see I DNFed a book. On my Goodreads and Storygraph, instead of DNFing it, I just remove it from my books and pretend I never tried reading it lol.
Also, it takes one or two good reviews on the first book to make me buy a whole series without reading a letter, but when my mind is set on on reading a book there is no amount of bad reviews that will change my mind. I may end up loving it or hating it, but I gave it a fair chance, unless I DNFed it, but there is no evidence for that hahahhaha
I'm the same, hate to dnf. The idea of actually removing it from goodreads and pretend I never tried reading it is really good. I might do that :D
I deleted all my DNFed books off Goodreads too. I didn't want to see them, honestly!
YES! I do the first one! I don't want to leave a bad review and say that I DNFed it, it makes me sad. So, I remove it too. 🤣
I agree 1,000%. I hate DNFing a book. It takes a lot for me to do such a thing. So if I do, y'all know I tried.
Saaame! Cheers to pretending we never-ever DNF!🥂
I despise people that stop reading mid-chapter.
i can relate to the author thing. the author of my fav book, after several years after said book, came out with a new one and i was so pumped and i got like 75 pages into it and i was like "wow... this is geuinely trash" and i haven't read anything of hers since because i'm so scared of growing a distaste of her work(s)
7:03 I just need more than one book at the time, I can’t just stick to one. I do this with tv series too. (I watch like 20+ shows at the same time, one episode of this show, two of this other show and so on (unless I really enjoy something, then I’ll binge watch it)
Loved the video! My toxic trait would be never recommending my all-time favourite books - I just want to keep my precious darlings to myself to protect them from mean opinions and also just so that they belong to me aloneee >:)
I do not want do be judged, by my book taste. So that is why i keep my most loved book to my self.
i want to gatekeep reading as a whole while simultaneously wanting everyone i know to read💀
this is a recommendation for everyone in the comments since I know Jesse probably won't take my recommendation lol. In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park is one of my top books that I have ever read. It is her autobiography about how she escaped North Korea and it is so emotional. I honestly respect her so much more after reading it. I've been following her on youtube for a few years now but I read her book in 2020. It is a book I hope more people read.
"Who in their right mind has this many bookmarks?"
*scurries to a dark corner because I have at least 3x as many*
I have a lot of bookmarks too. Do you match your bookmark to the current book you are reading like I do? It's fun and I find it helps justify the collection. Maybe try sticking in a matching bookmark at the table of contents of each book. That way you'll be ready to go whenever you pick up a book to read or reread it. Or make it part of a book ritual to pick out a special bookmark out of the collection of them when you start a new book. It's a little hard to remember at first but it's easy once the habit is formed.
And yes, I totally get the wanting to make better displays thing. I used to make displays when I worked in an independent bookstore. I occasionally will find myself adding a book to a display, usually at the library, if there is that missing space because someone took a book off the display, and no one bothered to fill it in yet.
Definitly the need to binge-read. And I didn't even read series!! My anxiety that leaves me to read spoilers, not that I won't read them next but I'm scared that I won't understand them. Finally, try to become everyone into a reader!!🤗
my mom is a librarian so she has THE MOST amount of bookmarks that i’ve ever seen
Buying books has always made me very joyful 😄 so any time I get sad or am in a bad situation I’ll stop buy a BnN and spend a few bucks. I stopped by the bookstore just to use the restroom last week and left with four books and a new journal.
the “im not like all the other gorls💅🏻” at the end😂. Im happy to open TH-cam and see you have 2 new videos, it’s always a good time.
5:23 omg I do this with books and tv shows. If it’s too popular I’m just really scared it’s overhyped or something (most of the time it isn’t, but I’m still scared)
i love that i haven’t watched you in actual years but when you were talking about your favorite book, i immediately knew that it was ms. peregrines home for peculiar children because of how much you used to talk about it. it’s still my favorite too.
I’m with you on the bookmarks and another trait I have is in the middle of reading, I think of another book and stop the current book to start the book I thought of and then switch between the two until I end up with like 6 books and then race to finish them all, so I don’t have a DNF pile. #hellatoxic
So happy to see another video! Been reading Stephen king a lot! Missed your videos! Love you, and HAPPY SUMMER!!!
my toxic trait is absolutely having to finish a series even after it's lost the charm... i just keep at it because I get attached to the characters and then it takes me far too long to be done with it and be able to move on to something more enjoyable
I've bought a bunch of books by one author, as soon as they came out, because I saw two new books by her in hardcover and thought "oh, I'll get them when the paperbacks come out" and that took like five years.
Never saw the hardcovers again and Amazon wasn't a thing yet. (Yes, I'm ancient.)
Still have to read like half of them. Fortunately, it's an episodic series, so order doesn't matter, which helps with mood reading and series.
My bad habit with bookmarks is leaving them in partially read books and not being able to find them all again.
Love those tiny magnetic ones, but they're easy to overlook. I suspect some of them have been returned with library books.
I was telling someone they should read Nevermoor (Cuz everyone should!) & she asked me what it was about.. I made it sound so boring. 😆 So I decided I had to prepare a pitch for it. Which I practice in the mirror.. Lol
I use my bookmarks.. But I also have this thing where I want them to match the book I'm reading. Like I can't read this vampire book because I can't find my vampire bookmark?!?
Yes yes that’s my toxic trait about popular books too. I think it comes from never having any popular items growing up (I.e. toys, books, clothes) that I’m like anti-popular now. Though I also fall prey to FOMO as well… and do want the good books. But I also get scared that the hyped up books will be too hyped up and therefore I’ll just hate them on principle. I’m toxic in my toxicity!
Buying a full series right away! Absolutely!!
I own too many bookmarks. One of my favorite books series second book went out of print and I know I should've bought it years ago. My other toxic trait is checking out too many library books and holding on to them for a while even though I'm a fast reader, it's a lot of books.
I am the opposite with bookmarks. I always pick one out that suits the cover or I think would fit with the description and I have even swapped out a bookmark if I find that it does not fit. Also I have way less bookmarks than Jesse, but I make my own by watercoloring bookmark sized pieces of paper, so my collection will eventually grow.
Having an elevator pitch ready for your fave book but blanking when asked what any other book is about on the spot is *totally* mmeee!!!!!!!!!😅😅🙃😁🤍
Lol I blank when someone even asks my favorite book
1:44 If someone asked me about book and wants me to explain...the first thing i will ask if they going to read it? If they answer NO then why should i explain myself to them .... if YES then i will ask them to read it and found out about it ..
Amazing
Not giving authors a second chance - yeah, that’s me! I very rarely read an author again if I gave the first book I read from them three stars or less. I only will if the premise of another book REALLY grabs me. Thankfully, this was the case with Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary. I loved The Martian but then HATED his second book, Artemis, so I wasn’t planning on picking him up again, but Project Hail Mary sounded so great… and it ended up being my favorite book of 2021 and a new favorite of all time.
My other toxic trait is constantly critiquing and editing a book in my head as I read it. As a writer, it just happens naturally and I can’t stop it! I’m sure I would enjoy most books more if I wasn’t a writer.
My toxic trait is being unable to dnf a book. I just see myself as a failure. I get scared of starting a book because I don’t want to be trapped if I hate it. I have dnf-ed 3 books in 2 years but that is because they were so extremely bad I physically couldn’t read another page. I just wish I could dnf more often because then I would start books more fearlessly.
Most of the time I keep reading books I want to dnf because "who knows it could get better“. It almost never does. Then I get mad at myself because I wasted valuable reading time in a book I didn't like 😶
I tried out the 50 page rule where if you aren't liking it or hooked by page 50 stop reading it, and that helped me to decide by around that page count if I was going to have to drag myself through a book or not. Sometimes it's because I'm a mood reader and I just don't happen to be in that particular mood, and sometimes it's because I legitimately don't like the book. It takes some practice, and I didn't get rid of books for a while so I could change my mind if I wanted to after reading something else, but now I can tell better whether or not I'm going to like a book and I don't feel as bad putting some books down. Reading is my fun time, after all. If I'm not having fun, then why read it?
Mine is that I have to buy any candle that relates to a book that I love. Actually just any merch for a book I've read and loved.
The one of buying the whole series at once is understandable, I have some books that are different editions and it's annoying af
my toxic reader trait is that any and all info about any books falls out of my head the instant anyone wants to talk about it, do not ever ask me for a book recommendation because suddenly, "o no i cant read"
The bloopers are fantastic 🤣 and I 110% share your toxic bookmark trait. I also buy books by my favorite authors and then not read them because what if they're not as good as their other books?! Also not finishing series and having a full kindle library but forgetting its there and never reading those books.... 😬
You’re so cute 🥰 I always sit and smile all the way through your videos.
And I relate to almost everything you said 😂 I feel like most readers will 😆
Omg Jesse, can totally relate to most of those especially the bookmark one haha. And I can't remember the last time I finished a series. Ah the reader fate. 💛💛
Yes! I don’t take recs either books or tv etc. besides booktubers of course , when I tell friends to read things and am excited when they do and like it then they tell me one but it’s not up my alley
Mine is reading at most 6 pages of a book before bed every night, and then wondering why it’s taking me forever to finish this book.
Would anyone else here pay to own and read a book that’s been annotated by Jesse with “slay” in the margins? Because I would.
Once i finished a book, I no longer remember any of the characters name that a colleague of mine said how come you finished it but you dont remember any names? Ah well, hello - welcome to my world! 🤣🤣🤣
Same. I think I only remembered the names in Game of Thrones because the beginning of every chapter had their name in giant bold letters. That kind of helped.
Mybe you are reading too fast?
When I was in high school, everyone was raving about The Hunger Games and I was told I should read it. And I was like "oh a popular book? Ew, no." And then it was required reading in English class... I ended up reading the entire trilogy within the week and it got me back into reading.....
I totally relate to the bookmark one!! I love collecting them but I hardly ever use them.
When you talked about bookmarks I was like oh no I do that too😂 Like I have 3 really special fancy bookmarks that are all in books I haven't finished, so I got more and now I haven't used any of my new ones.. like I love bookmarks so I don't get why I do this haha
My toxic reader trait is borrowing books from the library when I'm in the mood to read them then not returning them for 5 months because I'm never in the mood to read them again
Main one. I keep starting book series before looking to see if the whole series is in audio format..... There is nothing more frustrating than really loving a series and you can't finish it. I mean I guess I could if I was willing to put up with the week long migraine. Which I'm not. I have 20+ series that I can't finish because authors/publishers don't release all of them in audio. There should seriously be something in the contract that if you release one in audio format you have to release the entire thing. I have wasted soo many hours, seriously it blows my mind, on series that I can't finish.
I also have a 5T external drive full of audiobooks. At least half are unread. Thankfully I love a reread, well relisten, so I do get my money worth. I really should do a title by title delete day and go thru the ones I either didn't like or lost interest in. Is it still unhaulting if there wasn't a haul to begin with?
Yes because you get “shelf space” back
I relate to everything in this video!
I relate sooooo hard!!!! I'm always recommending books to my parents and my friends (my friends don't really read but still) and whenever my parents recommend me books I still feel this great aversion to that lmao. Which is really not fair as my dad read Scythe because I kept insisting he'd love it (which he did btw) in exchange for me reading the Daughter of The Empire and I didn't... We made this deal in February.... OOPS
Also, my entire personality is also reading, and IKEA, as I am a fulltime IKEA employee, at work I'm always talking about books, so much so that my co-workers have started to say, "Oh you and your books". And one of the security guards even asks me periodically how many books I've read so far and what I'm currently reading, even though he doesn't read himself, he doesn't have the patience and focus for it.
So long story short, I relate
My toxic reader trait, at the moment, is having too many books/series that I've started but haven't finished for literal years even though I had no desire to DNF them. 👀
Haha loved this
I was the same with collecting bookmarks, but don't do that anymore
I don't think I have these traits. Maybe DNFing a lot of books, but I personally think there is not enough time to be reading books I don't like
Bing watching his videos season has started again for me💖🤓
This was actually a really great video, and I had a ton of fun watching it, as always!!!! Might even rewatch it sometime; I'm tempted to rewatch it r/n, but I can't 'cause I have to get up early in the morning and beec to catch some sleep(unfortunately😿😿)^--^ 💜💖💜💜
literally all the same traits except for the out of print thing because I've honestly never thought about that before. And recently I've been trying to find a Horror book that blew up and has gone out of print. :(
Hey your alive I do the book pitch thing
plz do a bookmark collection. it would be so great cuz u have so many bookmarks
I know you in goodreads and then i realized that you have a channel and i come and then love to hear you haha
My two most toxic reader traits are adding to my tbr while still having over 100 books on it and buying a whole series instead of just book one even though I don’t know if I’ll like it but the premise sounded interesting so I do it anyway.
Jesse! I got into the habit of sticking a bookmark in the front cover of a book, BEFORE it goes onto my bookshelf. That way, I always have a bookmark for whatever book I'm reading (even if it takes me 4 years to get to a book). Also...if I see I have spare bookmarks, it just means I can buy more books!! ....right? 😶
I like that. It is not form me, becouse no normal Person has more the 700 bookmarks.
@@ericazahn9689 I can confirm. I'm not normal 😂
Mine is that I smack people when they touch my book while I'm reading when they are trying to get my attention for important reasons but I just ignor them
Okay, no no no, I TOTALLY get buying a whole series at a time. Having mismatched covers is the WORST. I have the initial run of Percy Jackson covers in paperback...except for The Last Olympian, which is in hardcover. And now I can 👏 not👏 find 👏 it in paperback with the original cover art and it drives me nuts when I see it.
Buuuut I also have Tom Clancy in every shape, size, color, and cover style, sooooo...
Among my many toxic reader traits is brooding over which books to take on vacation. Shouldn't I be packing clothes, shoes, toiletries, my sunscreen, passport...? Yes, of course, but do I want to take three books? Four? This paperback, because it's lighter in weight, but maybe this hardback is more appropriate for my destination? And so on, and so on...
Ah, yes: the "favorite book" question. I agree that is such a simple yet complicated question. If I'm around readers and I want to conversation to stir towards books, I instead ask "What are you currently reading?" Then, I can start with questions about genres and authors. I can land on a favorite book eventually.
I used to work at BAM. I set up display tables on occasion. In the beginning, I would go out of my way to make the display look cool. When I walk by the table at a later time, my design has been erased. I once jokingly called out my manager about it. She said that, while she loved my design, the purpose was to actually get as many titles and as many copies of those titles on the table. I get it. The display tables have a very simple design for a practical purpose.
Toxic reader trait: Checking out a book from some library with the intention of reading it but than reverting to a book I have on my personal shelf. Then I return the library book without finishing it and never go back to it 👀
My toxic reader trait is that I remove the Gregory Maguire books from the YA section of the thrift store books and put them in the adult section where they belong.
My big toxic reader trait is buying books on my kindle for the better deal, then forgetting about/not reading them… I also tend to put off popular books.! There was a string of popular books I read one year that I either disliked or were meh, or people whose reviews I trusted ended up saying it didn’t live up to the hype (even when they had been super excited for it), so I was a lot more cautious after that. It also takes me a while because I try to get books from the library if I’m worried about not liking a new book and having wasted $ in an expensive hardback, and my library takes forever to get new books, especially new YA. I also have a hard time giving authors second chances, although I’m a little more forgiving if I had only read their debut, because hopefully they’ve grown as a writer since then.
I understand the not giving a second chance. I've been putting of reading any more Shadowhunters books for months now after reading the Mortal Instruments (seriously I wanted to throw my book at the wall because of Clary's stupidity and selfishness), even though the Infernal Devices, which I read first, is one of my favourite book series.
Hahaha I relate to the bookmarks! I always get those little magnetic ones and my friends buy me bookmarks and the next time I have need of one oh here let me use this reciept
I definitely annotate the same way... half of my annotations are “lol” or “oh my god legend”
Buying books on Kindle when I know I very rarely read e books. I see the two dollar price tag and can't help it. Or buying books on pre-order and then not reading them for a year after they come out
My toxic reader trait is forcing myself to finish a book (sometimes even a series) even when I can't stand the book. Like, for some reason I would rather skim through every page and be miserable than to just DNF it and call it a day.
Omg same, I just hate to DNF. I would also get the audiobook and play it at 1.5x/2x speed (barely listening it) to finish the book quickly instead of DNF.
Always love the editing 💟
i feel called out by the annotating thing, i usually "converse" with the characters? book im reading currently has just whole margins filled with insults towards the main character lmao
The way I felt ALL of this
I can’t do series. But I do like “series” that are actually just stand alones. Romance novels do this a lot like the Brown Sister series
I've gotten into the habit of grabbing a bookmark when I take it off the shelf to start it. My toxic trait is reading too many books at the same time.
So many of your book toxic traits are mine, especially the bookmark one! I never use bookmarks, but I have a lot!
I think my toxic reader trait is that when I'm in a bad mental space and lose the energy to read, I get so desperate to _want_ to read that I start requesting every book I've ever been interested in from the library. it's not like I don't always have at least 10 books checked out at a time, but it'll be close to 25, all of which I actually feel lukewarm towards or don't particularly feel pulled to in that moment, and then they just sit in a pile in my room, and both of us wish that I was not ~like this~
Not me relating to all of these👀
Toxic trait: starting a book, getting a new book, starting that book, getting another new book, starting that book and ending up in a cycle of half read books
I have actually critiqued the end caps / book displays in bookstores[ in my head] before ttooo-OmG-😅😅😅☺️😁 🙃😹👀
If you buy the whole series at the same time you can make sure they’ll sit evenly on the shelf! But I recently started buying only the first book in a series and waiting until I’ve read it to to buy the rest just in case I don’t like it. Unless it’s at a used bookstore or a thrift shop. You’d have to be crazy not to buy a full book series at a thrift store if they’re all there and waiting for you.
Same with the recommendations lol even when my best friend recommends me a book I thank her knowing for sure I will never read it
Yeah i got game of thrones recomented 10 years befor the Show was a thing. When did i read them? As the Show started.
When I start reading books from a new popular author, my brain is convinced that I have to start with their debut. Even though that makes no sense, but it just doesn’t feel right not too.
I’m always afraid that if I read the debut later I will think it’s worse because they’ve grown and I won’t like it as a result. So I read the debut first but also why??
toxic reader trait I have books I've started but then I just don't ever get back to them and I keep telling myself ill read it eventually but five months later I still haven't read it!
I also have a ton of bookmarks I don't use lying around. But I actually want to buy more because somehow I really like to use the "right" bookmark and I have a lot of fantasy bookmarks, but none that would fit a mystery or a thriller. Why can't I just use a random bookmark??
I'm also currently reading 9 books because... mood reader.
My toxic reader trait is also collecting too many bookmarks too Jesse so don’t feel too bad Lol 😂 Loved This Video Have a Great Day 😉
I do not have do many, but i leave them in books and need do use something else
Me too, except most of them are random pieces of paper but now I consider them bookmarks and I get smad when I lose them