I've been telling people for years to start building their own libraries, both physical and digital. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one raising the alarm.
I was actually speaking with a librarian the other day and she mentioned that the books are disappearing. Meaning some higher government entity is removing them from the shelves so people don't have access to them. The book bans have already started way before they were open about banning books. She also mentioned that alot of the old internet archives that had alot of old books that are no longer under copywright are being wiped. People really should start collecting the old unabridged classics, because at some point they won't be available for the public anymore.
I am glad you mentioned this because I am going to touch on this in next week's coffee break. Library discarded books and how to get them. The more I think about it the more I realize how important this issue is becoming. Internet Archives like the Gutenberg project are so important but all it takes is the ownership falling into the wrong hands and the info is gone. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
@@The_Cause Yo, you should touch on how you can download the entire Gutenberg project, (or any website for that matter) onto a hard drive. We need to keep as many backups of these as possible, in case things get...complicated.
The "Orwell being relatively unknown" comment was sarcasm. Sorry if that was not clear. lol We all know having an in-home library will inspire you to read more and foster an environment of education. There are other reasons as well. I hope you enjoy the video and let me know if you have started a home library of your own. As always stay blessed! Coffee: www.cedarotacoffee.com
All good libraries deserve a coffee cup sitting somewhere in it. I dare say a library is not a library unless a coffee bar is included! Coffee, books, and freedom! Keep fighting the good fight you caffeinated disciple!
Was in a bookstore with a friend when I mentioned having heard that Agatha Christie's books were going to have their language changed, at which point he went and bought a bunch in order to have "unscrubbed" versions.
It is so crazy to even think that is happening. I have no problem with someone “creating new works” that are inclusive and fits the popular agenda of the day but if you start changing the works of the past because of disagreement, that is a scary precedent to set. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
I'm glad I found this video, and your channel. My wife and I have an eBay bookstore, and we also sell books at our roadside stand. Many people that have stopped at our stand have told us that they are concerned that history is being changed, e-books can be turned off, books might one day be unavailable, etc. We've even had several people only interested in books that have been published prior to certain years. Whatever the reason, our sales are up this year. I've shared this video on Twitter and Facebook. Perhaps it will set a spark in more people. Keep up the good work. :)
They've been removing books for years. It's mostly political and about white people. Any book that talks about white replacement, or tries to talk about white people in a positive way is being removed.
I have always collected books……mostly classics, some biographies and history books but since the pandemic in 2020 I have been more selective…….because I fear they will attempt to rewrite history so I totally agree with you. Having your own home Library filled with physical books is an essential.
Along with books you should also collect older dictionaries they change or shorten the meaning of words as time goes on I like to know what they meant in the past.
I like to think of books as little moments in time caught and bound onto pages, waiting for us to read them. Which is why a home library is truly something that everyone should have in their home, no matter how big or small it may be. There’s always something to be learned from people of the past and present. Thank you for your wonderful video!
What you say is so true. I read a quote from a writer decades ago that said much the same thing. I cannot recall the exact wording, but it was something like: “A moment happens, is experienced, and is as quickly forgotten. This is where the writer succeeds. He manages to capture a moment of life on the hop.”
Agreed, those people in the early days of our country had libraries in their homes, like TJ who donated his after the Library of Congress had been burned down by the British. With todays tech you can have as large a Library as you want - digitized - and print out those books you want to. I have a large collection of Authors - Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Dole, Paterson, and others that I downloaded from a torrent site years ago. If you are on a budget this is a good way to start your library
I was just talking to my twelve-year-old son about this the other day. He was asking me if he was going to inherit my Harvard 5 Foot, my 55 volume "Great Books" set, or my Delphian Courses set. I told him, "You're going to need them long before I die. Start collecting now." I was so blessed to invest roughly 200$ altogether. I'd become aware of them, start looking to collect, and then stumble upon people who had them and didn't know their value. It wasn't long after that I realized I really don't need any other books...
haha yes indeed! I hope my kids are even remotely interested in wanting my old sets. That would be a good father feeling moment right there! A few old sets such as the Great Books of the Western world will provide enough reading for years. And you are right. Sometimes I see deals and the kids are literally just giving them away. Going to discuss that in next weeks video. If you are patient, you can build a nice library pretty cheaply. Thanks for watching buddy and stay blessed!
@@folksurvival That would be #1 They used the translations at the time (around 1950s), #2they lack useful notes because they expect you to do SOME of the work and not just sit at home expecting to be spoon fed a very different approach from modern), and #3 It's a huge survey by its very nature of all the key components of western civilization as they understood it in 1950s. Some things we consider 'key works' now weren't then or had to be cut for greater works. And besides..the vast majority of these Great Works and more are available free on the internet anyway or from discount publishers. You can find The Iliad in full for like 5$. Dover Thrift is amazing for that.
It's so interesting to see the concept of a banned book becoming such a polarizing topic. The most terrifying part about this to me are the real banned books are the ones we will never know about. It's not the ones in the museums with thousands of copies being paraded as a "banned book". It's the ones where the powers that be conspire to buy every copy to make it unavailable, release a new edition with modified content, make it unavailable online, etc. Its the ones that get small publishers harrassed or bought out by the big ones. It's no coincidence that all the big publishers are owned by the same people. Thank you for making this video.
You need to look into piracy. Look into Samizdat movements, like modern Libgen and similar. If you want to preserve a book, get it in .epub or other digital formats, clean it and upload it to one of those sites. It's illegal, but it's also necessary. Eventually, they'll come after those sites and their serves, so you have to do it yourself. Research important topics, find the best books on it and then become the one who saves it. There is great interest in keeping the books, but there's an even greater interest in destroying them.
I've lived my entire life in a town which is home to a large, state-run university. Although my high school had its own library and my town has a public library, by the time I was in high school, my teachers were demanding of all of us pupils that we do the research for our research papers in the university library. Fortunately for us, anyone who was a "resident" (better expressed as "inhabitant") of my state could obtain a library card from the university library absolutely free of charge. After I became a university student, I saw the university library gradually become more and more restrictive during my time there. About a year after I got my master's degree and left the university, the library there changed its policy so that if one wasn't a professor or a student, one could have no access to the library without paying a $50 fee every semester. It was at that point that I said "screw this" and began amassing my own library. That was thirty years ago. Fortunately for me, at that same time I read Adler's _How to Read a Book,_ so the content of my library has some direction to it. It was Adler's book that alerted me to the fact of just how much I was cheated in my education.
Thanks so much for sharing. Adler's book was an eye-opener for me as well. We have so much to fix and as you mentioned this started so long ago. I do not even know what the path forward is to change it. I truly appreciate you watching my friend and stay blessed!
I remember that that the was the only to do research when I was young - I am 69 now - was to go to the library and look up the book and then read the book to find the information that you want, now it seems like libraries are slowly going extinct with the internet being so easy to access Thank you mentioning How to Read a Book by Adler, I have downloaded it and will start reading it tonight, again thank you very much
What a timely topic! I was fortunate to be raised in a family that cherished books and believed that a dedicated space for a home library was just as important as a bedroom and bathroom. I am currently curating a child's library collection for my first grandchild, making sure that the books I fill it with were printed before the 2000's, which is when I noticed the "narrative" really begin to ramp up. Ebay and Thrift Books are great resources to find earlier printings of books that haven't had their contents manipulated by publishers.
I envy you your family. My father always bragged about how he had a master's degree (in education, no less), but he also frequently uttered the words "I always hated to read." My family had pretentions of being educated, but those pretentions were hollow to the core.
@@aLadNamedNathan I used to think I was deprived because we never had a TV. My only escapism was to read the Harvard Classics. And now I am eternally grateful that my parents were luddites.😂
Now that is having your priorities in the right place! My wife and I were just talking about how important these books we are compiling will be when we have grandkids. I can only imagine what the narrative will be in another 15 to 20 years... Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
Just saw the no TV comment. We have recently made a decision to remove our from the living room and only use it on a dedicated movie night. The personalities that children mimic on TV are mind-blowing. I hope to raise them like your parents! haha
@@The_Cause When my own children were young, we were extremely poor and so we made the decision to cut out cable. We were fortunate to live in a rural area where the kids could go outside and play; 5 years and we didn't miss it. Even now that the kids are grown I don't have any cable or streaming services. If there's something I want to see, I will usually just buy it on disc to have and re-watch.
My mother had assembled “Grandma Lo-Lo’s Banned Bookshelf”. Every book on it has been banned somewhere in the world. I too have a home library that will be quite useful if and when the ‘grid’ stops functioning.
haha that is a great idea! That would be a fun project to start. Grandma Lo-Lo understood what was probably coming. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
Thanks so much! I am glad you enjoy them. I am most definitely going to keep publishing videos. I honestly really enjoy it! Thanks for watching and stay blessed!
@@The_Cause If you come to Switzerland I gladly do that. I will even cheer you on while you run an ultramarathon. :P Or if I go to America to visit the three people I like to meet then I will bring one with me too.
I watched one of your first videos a while back ago. Two weeks ago I happened to pick up a book at the library unknowingly choosing a Harvard Classic. I thought back to your video and decided to begin reading through the whole selections. Thanks for the influence.
That is so awesome to hear! I am glad my videos helped inspire that. I humbly welcome you on this journey. I am sure you realize that it will be a long road to travel but please know that it is very rewarding. I have enjoyed it so much! Thanks for watching and stay blessed my friend!
@@The_Cause Sorry for delayed response. You must read this, at lesast the part about the thrift store. There is a St. Vincent De Paul Thrift Store that I used to go to every-time I was in the area ( unfortunately, I don't go out that way much these days), anyway if you have a St. Vincent De Paul near your - GO there! Check it out because the one I used o go to ALWAYS had a lot of books - GOOD books! I found hard covers on Adams, Franklin ( Franklins Autobiography), I found the whole hard cover six volume set on Thomas Jefferson by Dumas Malone. One day I went there and there were maybe 40 books on the Civil War ( obviously someone’s collection who died, and the family gave it away. Out of that, I only bought a book on Lincoln which tells what tyrant he really was ( if you notice his monument, he’s seated on a throne lol - POS bastard, BUT he was shot, so he must have done somethng right, or the world oligarchic mafia wouldn’t have killed him. I found books in french ( which was weird because i live in Michigan), new books: Victor Hugo’s Notre de Paris, Le Petit Prince, new French English dictionaries, and books on verbs, all new. I found Shakespeare, things by the ancient Greeks and Romans ( my favorites, especially the Greeks and most especially Aristotle). Nothing cost me more than 2 or 3 dollars. My hardcover Jefferson set cost me 12.00 total. I guess you get the point. I go to a lot of resale stores, because there are a bunch of them, near me, and some have a lot of books, but those books are 99 percent garbage -HOWEVER -- That St. Vincent was a gold mine, that never seemed to run out of gold. So, if you have one near you, you MUST check it out, and hopefully, it will be like the one I used to go to. Of course I must confess I don’t read, but I buy the books to safeguard knowledge. I might not read, but I know what’s worth reading and having in a personal library. Hope all that made sense. I like to write, but i don’t like to proofread and I type like someone with two broken index fingers, my fingers of choice when it comes to typing. I don’y read but I do journal, and that’s hop I practice and learn french. And just as an aside, since ai can never shut up, IF you are so inclined to learn a language, specifically French, ask me, and I can direct you to the best resources and methods to learn it. Czech Proverb: “Learn a new language, get a new soul.” THAT is TRUE. Nothing has ever stimulated my mind like “trying” to learn french. Did you know 40% of english comes from french? That’s because of William the Conqueror, and the Norman Invasion in 1088. The “ English” royals ( who weree after William french speaking vikings lol) spoke french, not english, so for the next 300 years that’s what the royals spoke. Did you know Richard the Lionhearted, the English national hero, didn’t speak english? He also came from France, slightly south of Normandy. I never knew that. Sorry. I ramble like a runaway train rumbling down a mountain side once I get started. Excuse my typing, and spelling.
The alteration in the contents to fit woke agendas has veen happening with all literature and media for decades. And you make here a point for something I never considered: to become a guardian of knowledge despite it being ubiquitous nowadays. A brilliant point and worth our collective effort.
Yes indeed! Like a high tide the water is everywhere but all of a sudden you look around and the boat no longer floats... I think we could see the same with information and books one day. I truly appreciate you watching and stay blessed my friend!
It's like when Ballantine Books released the Bal-Hi Edition of "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury for high school students. It had changes made to not offend their young minds. It is a book about critiquing censorship, and the official publisher of the book was slowly censoring the book. After Bradbury had them immediately stop and only print the original, uncensored version, he added a Coda section and said, "Fire-Captain Beatty...described how the books were burned first by minorities, each ripping a page or a paragraph from this book, then that, until the day came when the books were empty and the minds shut and the libraries closed forever." I originally wanted to type out the conversation between Beatty and Montag when Beatty says, "...the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be." Then I realized I wanted to quote nearly 7 pages from Beatty arrives to when he leaves Montag's house. So if you're interested, the full conversation is on pages 51-58 in Fahrenheit 451. I have the 60th Anniversary Edition, but it should be on a similar page number for other uncensored versions.
So awesome! I will look it up today! I have been thinking of doing my next 8 book series on those types of books. 1984, Fahrenheit 451, animal farm, brave new world, etc. to give me a break from non-fiction I may just do that! Thanks for sharing and stay blessed my friend!
Stumbled across this video and wanted to say "kudos" -- I agree with you completely on the importance of building one's own physical library, no matter the genre or topics of interest, but especially in acquiring unabridged pre-1950 books going all the way back to the Classics of Greece and Rome, etc., if that is where one's interest lies.. I'm in my 60s, dismayed by where our society seems headed (I pray it isn't full-on "1984"), and so also agree with most of your comments. I pray I live long enough to pass my library on to my grand-nieces and grand-nephews (alas, their parents have no interest in physical books). Thank you for sharing your insights and ideas. Blessings.
It’s interesting when you discover that there are certain niches. That are not popular enough and the core content was published in the 19th and early twentieth centuries, that there are real gaps of information online. Great video, thank you
Good advice. I started collecting copies of primary and secondary sources of history, particularly the revolutionary period, years ago when i became aware of revisionary history.
That is my focus right now. I am trying to get my hands on as many old-quality revolutionary period books as possible. That is a period of history worth studying because many of the Revolutions we learn about failed. Very few have ever succeeded and that is a dangerous education to provide people if the goals of government ever become malign. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed!
As I've gotten older, I rarely read physical books anymore, but have a bunch of audiobooks collected on old devices. The books I do have are on home maintenance, shop projects, survival, herbalism/plant guides & quite a few history books with only a couple of classics. When it comes down to it, you'll need more books for practical knowledge for fixing & building things as well as scrounging than classics. Collect what interests you outside of those & old history books, otherwise don't worry too much about fictional classics.
Good point to have old books like that as well. I have some old books of dads that are leather working, knots, and rope making. I do not need them now but you never know when the day will come we may have to blow the dust off and figure that stuff out again. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed!
If preservation of knowledge is the aim, I would also recommend building a digital library as well. I know some like/do not like to read ebooks (I'm indifferent) but it is good to store these in multiple mediums. If we are drawing from dystopian fiction, Farenheit 451, for example, is about *physical* books being burned. Even if we never see a time like that, what happens if your house floods or catches fire by accident? All of those books would be lost. Back them up in case of emergency. It also helps share what may become rare knowledge with others by just copying the files and giving it to them. I would recommend against Amazon kindles because while they are easy and portable, Amazon could remove a book and you would lose access to it. Use PDFs and EPubs, storing stuff on your computer, phone, or a more open ereader (I use a supernote nomad and love it.) This doesn't negate having a physical library, in case something were to happen to your digital storage, but it adds useful redundancy
This is very solid advice. Actually, the comments on this video have really opened my eyes to other issues around this one. We flooded a few years back so I can most definitely see the purpose of having alternative backups. Thanks for sharing and this is something I will definitely be looking into. Stay blessed my friend!
I've got a sizable home library with about 1.5k books. Sure, I've not read all of them, but pretty much any book I do want to eventually read is there. The classics, philosophy, criticism, contemporary masterpieces. And it's a resource not just for me but for my daughter as she grows into her own love of books.
It seems to happen quite often; start with convenience and easy access, then begin limiting access and controlling availability after converting people to it. This has been slowly happening to the internet, just as it is happening with access to books.
Couldn’t agree more with all your reasoning brother! And especially as it comes to older books - the new updated and improved versions are a waking nightmare 😱
Thanks Ken! I think next week's video will be helpful for anyone who is like me and trying to do it on a budget. Truly appreciate you watching my friend and stay blessed!
Glad to hear you enjoyed the video. My wife and I were discussing it a week or so back and we are seeing it become more and more important to own some old books. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed!
Okay, when I travel I always take my Nintendo DS XL … not for any games other than chess, etc. … but for 100 classic books data card, both British and American editions giving me about 140 books, of which some 40 to 50 have my interest. The number of times I’ve been stranded somewhere because of natural disasters or civil unrest and completely off grid … having a 140 book library 📚 is a wonderful thing (add another 40 books from the 100 classic children’s stories, too). Oh, yeah, and I always took an emergency power unit for the Nintendo (good to have during electricity brownouts).
I didn't realize this was a problem until a few years ago. I read a biography which had a section documenting the person's involvement with a certain political movement. At a much later date, one of my buddy was asking me about it so I got the eBook. To my shock, those sections were completely missing. There were no signs at all. I had to go double check with my physical copy just to make sure I wasn't misremembering.
Oh wow. What a telling story. I feel it is one of those things that go unnoticed so often that we do not even realize it is occurring. Thanks for sharing my friend. Stay blessed!
Great Video. I recently bought a book on Alexander the great and noticed that it was very politically motivated ion which they competently changed the history of this great man.
I have seen that as well. We read through a lot of kid books because of my kids ages and some I have to pull from the stack. Political agendas in children who are just learning to read blows my mind. Thanks for watching and stay blessed my friend!
Thanks for a very informative video, I have been building my library slowly over time with classics like Dickens, Shakespeare, Homer, Julius Ceasars works, Ben Franklin, to name a few, I start out digitally by downloading them and then printing them out and then binding them, I have some audio books like the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, what I miss are the Encyclopedias that I grew up with but there is the World Almanac and Book of Facts or Poor man's Encyclopedia. I am looking forwarding to your next video and will get the old version of Roald Dahl, there was a video done about Georgie's Medicine on TH-cam that was very good to listen and watch. Take care and stay well and happy
Nice! Sounds like a very nice collection. Audio books are great to in my opinion. Nice to have a good collection there as well. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
@@The_Cause I have some of my books in audio format too, like Harry Potter and Christopher Hitchens for example, You can either get the audiobooks from TH-cam, a Torrent website or Audible, for my printed out books I put them in a plastic sheet and then a binder, next I am going to bind them like the books you get at a book store
Great exposition! I was made aware of this issue some years ago, especifically about ebooks, so I always check if they are abridged or worse "revised".
Yes indeed. I never thought to check in the past but now I do as well. I can see how the ebooks could be impacted by this issue more. Thanks so much for watching my friend. Stay blessed!
Thank you for that! I have been thinking for years that it was very important to collect old books because of the digitalization of books. After seeing your video about the Harvard Classics, I went out and purchased them and am glad that I did! I would also highly recommend reading "The Story Of Civilization" by Will Durant.
Collecting old books is most definitely more important than ever. At a book fair, I picked up a set of Will Durant's Story Of Civilization a few months back. What a wonderful set of books that is. Planning to go through them with the kiddos in a few years. Glad to hear you were able to find a set of the Harvard Classics. Keep fighting the good fight my friend and stay blessed!
Make sure that your floor joists (runners) run adjacent to the bookshelf, not parallel. Otherwise you have 500lbs+ of books and shelf resting on one or two joists.
Excellent! Thank you for pointing out that review and how part of the book had been removed. years ago I watched a video about universities scanning books and destroying physical copies. If anyone wanted access to the scanned book they had to be alumni of the university. How's that for orwellian? My son LOVES text books and older ones at that. Our own library started destroying older books. We were heart broken. But we have noticed that more of the older books are slipping back into the basement for sale instead of going straight to the recycler. Also, about 4 years ago I went to the library for books on The Great Depression. They didn't have a single book on the subject. The librarian was more shocked than I was. A lot of people who read will read ebooks. They don't realize the ebook can be removed from their harddrive at any time and they're paying money to rent the books. They don't actually own them. If I'm paying money to read a book, I want to own that book. Thankfully, the last time we were at our library basement sale, the woman who runs it, chatted with us and we left with three large boxes. We bought a lot of history and older books. I told her I love whomever it was that donated all of these older books and appreciate the library selling them. Hopefully she'll realize their importance. I'm looking forward to your next video on building a home library Rob. 👍👍
Great comment! Love this! It is so scary the times we are living in regarding information and books. These comments have made me aware of the ebook drawbacks. I did not realize they could be removed or even altered after purchasing. I am very much looking forward to sharing next week's video because as you mentioned little bookstores, donations of old books, and library discards are all great places to find affordable books. Thank you so much for watching and I truly hope you stay blessed!
I have hundreds of books (mostly fiction), but since this year I have also started to buy ebooks because of space issues. I was hesitant at first because of the DRM, but luckily I solved that problem, making sure that whatever happens, I keep an original file. Whenever I read an ebook worth buying, I will do so, but it helped filtering the physical pile.
Great video! I've been thinking the same. I love having custom leatherbound books made, I recently got all of Gibbon's volumes in a beautiful and classic red and black leather cover. There's something about having the book in your hand, and having a nice cover certainly doesn't hurt. It adds to the experience and you feel more connected to the book as it has been bounded to your likings. Most of my friends don't understand why I spend so much on a custom-made book when I can have the PDF of it for free. I'm sure most watching this channel can relate.
@@juliaforsyth8332 It indeed is! Definitely a worthwhile purchase. Strange my comment with the links to the binders' is being removed. I'll post again without the links.
@@The_Cause There are many of these custom book binder especially those based in India. The one I bought from is called GyanBooks here in India but sell under the name of Rare Biblio in America. They customize the book to your exact preferences, you can decide the leather colour, gold-leafing pattern, cover text, cover graphics etc. If you're interested I can send you the owner's contact, he's quite nice and he might give you a good deal if you mention your channel. Don't know why but my reply comment got deleted maybe because it contained links. Looking forward to your next video!
I mean, in all i want to mention, even though my past inquiries, the best way for modemr day knowledge gain is reading on audiobooks and writing down future audiobooks tk read
Great video! I have many books and will keep buying classic (unabridged) older books just to ensure I’m getting the real deal. When I heard WEF say they can create a new Bible. Nope! I now have several real Bibles just ensure AI isn’t being used. Looking forward to your next video! I really enjoy them!
It is almost hard to believe what is capable of happening now. Blows my mind with the WEF stuff. I am with you on collecting the older books and slowly compiling a small library of classics. I honestly do not know any other way to challenge what is occurring. Thanks so much for watching my friend and stay blessed!
Oh my gosh, I _so_ agree! On occasion I've found poems on reputable poetry sites that are missing couplets or in one case even a stanza. I was shocked and wondered what percentage of their poems have errors. I was also worried because I only found these problems because I happened to know those poems pretty well -- what about younger users, who haven't been educated to memorize poems or even just read them multiple times? How would they even know there's a problem?
I will be honest, when I clicked away from this video to do a bit of writing (still hearing you in the background) I couldn't help but imagine the firemen with their helmets and their guns, 451 like the emblem of a nation on their brow, smashing into the houses of the book lovers to kill them and burn their books. Orwell and Ray Bradbury knew what they were talking about. I think Bradbury was more on point than Orwell, but that could be personal preference. If you have time to read some books aside from the Harvards, check out Bradbury, Rob. He has valid points that hold up today, fifty years later. Love and Peace.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and love for the books! You’re right, Ray Bradbury and Orwell are both great thinkers. Their predictions seem to be becoming more and more relevant with the times. I just finished Fahrenheit 451 a few months back. What a great book! I read it right after making this video and wish I could have mentioned this book in it. Thanks for watching and stay blessed my friend!
@The_Cause Glad to hear you like Fahrenheit! Funnily enough Bradbury wrote that book in the basement of a library on a rented typewriter. Another good one, that sort of shook me, was a short story by him called "Bright Phoenix" which is a sort of prequel to Fahrenheit. Book burning is just starting up, and the librarian gives them the books. But what was interesting was the fact that everyone in the town could quote the great books! Like it was air in the lungs. It scared the firemen so bad they left. But what sort of struck me there was this. There isn't a town, anywhere!, in modern America that has an entire population who can quote the Bible, Abraham Lincoln, or the Great Poets. If we could get a population together, to actually be interested, there would be no need to worry about book burning. However, as Bradbury himself said, "there is more than one way to burn a book. And many people are running around with lit matches." Again, thank you for sharing with us these great books, Mr. Milton. 😉 God bless, Love and Peace.
What a great quote! I will have to check out that book. I liked the flow of Bradbury's writing. Truly appreciate you kind words and thanks for sharing!
That is a very good point indeed. In the past, I never really thought about having to do that. Most definitely something I consider nowadays. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
@@The_Cause yeah same at the beginning. But one time i discussed with someone about the change in some books through the time and that person told me if i wanted to read 1984, i should buy the oldest version of it, because in my country they changed some sentences and words in the book because it was too relevant in our today society and government. I guess more than language actualisation, its a change of the book identity and ideology that is being changed
That is a very important part in history for people to research indeed. We often think it was all books but they do seem to have been very specific in the beginning. Seems they broadened there fire pit as more controversial topics were added. Sometimes what may start out as moral intentions can end up opening the gates to genocide. That is a time period that we should all study. Thanks for watching and stay blessed my friend!
@@cyancat8633 Reasoning? Yes. What’s the point of reading, thinking, understanding and forming one’s own judgements if you only arrive at accepted narratives? You should try it.
A very good topic to explore indeed. Often history repeats itself but from the other side of the pendulum. Maybe one day we can take the lessons and apply them. Frankfurter was a good read. Never heard of him until now. Thanks so much for sharing.
I never thought about the ebook revisions until I started reading through these comments but that is definitely true. I have a couple but not many. I will most definitely continue slowly picking up old physical books as they come my way. Truly appreciate you watching my friend and stay blessed!
@The_Cause well I read it before and the chapters actually tend to be rather short and I read it between running emergency calls on an ambulance when I was a paramedic
Cool ideas. Have to think about it some more. I'd like if you would go a little more in-depth into the argument for the cultivation of a personal library with regards to preventing institutions from controlling the past. It remained a bit unclear for me. Warm regards Mr. Hoorn
A question for you, Ive been sticking around ever since the first post of the Harvard series and they are so good! I was wondering what editing software you use.
I use Adobe Premiere for video editing and I use Canva for thumbnails and Broll. Adobe also has many other programs such as illustrator and Lightroom that I use. Hope that answers your question and thanks so much for following along my friend. Stay blessed!
Do you have any tips for how to know if a book has been revised or edited to omit certain language/content? Maybe just books that were published before certain year?
If you want to understand your fathers read the books they did. I started my library with the original works my father read in Spanish, then my mother's. I cannot stress enough the importance of different points of view with the subject of history.
Different points of view and also different periods written. Older books are perfect for that as well. Really cool you can read history in Spanish because I bet that offers an even deeper perspective. Thanks so much for watching my friend and stay blessed!
There is an additional problem that you didn’t mention. Young people who don’t experience physical media are losing the ability to recognize genre and credibility differences that physical media would have trained them to recognize. What’s the difference between a newspaper and a blog? Nothing on the visual level if they both reside on a webpage. But the difference between a physical copy of the Times and a pamphlet that someone wrote at home is immediately obvious. I’m no economist, but I also wonder about the stability of an economy where physical money is someday irrelevant.
Very good point. The only time I see anyone with a newspaper is when I see the machinist at work on lunch break. What is crazy is how fast all that was replaced and changed too. I remember Mom cutting out coupons from the newspapers. Times have changed indeed. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
I think powerful people, keep philosophical and business books on their shelves. Is it okay for me to start with fictional books, I have a couple of genres on my bookshelf, and I only own 60 books.
I think so. Good literature comes in many forms. I personally think a well rounded set of books is great. Great philosophy, nice poetry, non fiction and fiction. Good luck on your library my friend! Stay blessed!
@@The_Cause Thanks so much! I feel kind of lucky to get a reply from you, I am sure that soon your channel will grow exponentially and you won't have time to reply to all the comments, love you videos man, keep the great work up! :D
I would live to see the channel grow to a nice size but sadly, as you mentioned ruined, I would not be able to keep up with the comments at that point. This is a nice size to still interact with everyone. I am feel blessed that people even care to watch! Haha
I am seeing something even worse lately. One example is a channel apparently dedicated to the works of CS Lewis. What I found was that some of the material was AI Generated in the style of Lewis, and it was even using an AI generated copy of his voice for the narration. Most people could tell thst it was an AI voice but many of the comments were asking, I can tell that the voice is AI, but which work from Louis was this text originally from?” Its very troubling to see where this is leading. As you described in your video,the samr troubles come to my mind. This has also happened to authors and popular speakers who are still alive. Misattributing AI material to people who make a living on writing and public speaking.I always imagined that people were smart enough to keep educational and historical resources safe, but now I am afraid it is becoming more like Orwell imagined.
I always say that my books are my most priced possessions (probably not only metaphorically but literally 😅). And hell, even if I politically lean towards progressivism/liberalism, that censorship and modification of past works for the sake of "inclusivity" is awful, how are we truly going to move forward if we are this condescending and dismissive of the past?
I think they are mine as well! haha If a fire breaks out and the family is safe, books are the next thing I am saving! haha. Ya the politicalization of everything is such a bummer. Live and let live is my view on it. If you do not like it don't read it or create something new but do not change it because you disagree. That starts to enter dangerous territory. Truly appreciate you watching my friend and stay blessed!
The downside with physical books is that they can become damaged over time. I have some extant early 20th century books, and some of them are in significantly better shape than others. 😅 Books are made from materials that don't last forever.
Very true but if kept in a good controlled environment they should last for a good while. The issue with the books you are referring to is that many were in non air conditioned or heated environments for a good portion of their existence. I will agree that the quality of books made today will most likely not last anywhere near as long as the older ones. As others have mentioned a good variety of storage methods is probably the best method. Thanks so much for watching and would love to know what your oldest book collected is? Stay blessed my friend!
Its funny because this video reminds me of how Sun & Steel by Mishima is basically impossible to find a physical copy of nowadays. Most likely because Mishima's proposal might be seen as dangerous alt-right or fascist ideology or at the very least contradictory to modern values. Makes you wonder how much popular philosophy could have been twisted from it's original text such as Nietzsche seeing how he's so controversial in his relation to Nazism.
My problem is not the capability to build up a library. I have the luxury of enough surplus money for that. My problem lies in the fact that I tend to prioritize more dopamin rich activities. Because of that, the number of pages I read per day isn't too large. Also technology is at a point where they could manipulate and change any digital copy you own, especially if they are on a cloud. I don't think they do it as of now, but it is only a matter of time, if things go on like this. As far as I'm aware technology is not advanced enough to do that with printed books. :)
I think we all struggle with the phone now days. If you use technology for work it is hard not to get distracted at different points of the day. I hop on here to answer comments and 30 minutes later I am watching the trailer to some movie being released. haha Discipline is a heck of a thing to master. I battle that daily. I hope all has been well brother and stay blessed!
I find it utterly terrifying and revolting that people would change a book without the author’s explicit permission. If you don’t like/agree with a book, write your own. I can’t stand abridged versions either. They are, by definition, not what the author intended. I wish people would respect the effort and creative decisions made by the people who actually wrote the books, especially heirs that are just making money of somebody else’s work.
I agree. I understand there are copyright laws and they expire but going back and revising the works of Charles Dickens or Mark Twain or any others just really infuriates me. The real problem is that we lack the courage to do anything about it and that is a humble reality to swallow.
@@The_Cause Whenever I see the announcement of a “revised” edition, I take notes on the editorial team and avoid buying other books by them. If the consumer clearly signals they are not spending their money on that sort of crap, the marked will be more likely to correct itself.
People ask me all the time why my library is so large. Why keep books around. Read and release... HGTV and the minimalist lifestyle has done just as much damage to people as those who want to edit the content. Feel free to come browse my stacks anytime. I also have two french presses available in the library for... reasons.
Haha yes indeed! I admire your reasons. Hard to pass up a good french press coffee and a library. Thanks so much for watching my friend and stay blessed!
I have. Further down in the comments we go into it. Most would be suprised to learn which ones they started with. Thanks for the friendly comment. Stay blessed!
Ironically Amazon does not have it. lol I found it on some other sites though. I will have to check it out. I am aware of what side he was on but I have not read very deep into it. Thanks for sharing!
Rob, thanks for these! I've been buying my beans for about 30 years from our legendary roaster, John, at Salt Lake Roasting Co.I didn't realize you had another channel. Wow! It was great just seeing your sense of humor. I fully agree with having physical media. I'm a classical music/opera geek and it's amazing to me how limited the ability to purchase CDs has become. Even on Amazon, classic performances that have always been in print are now no longer in print and generally cost a lot via third party. Some great works have become rare because ideas or concepts don't reflect today's PC values. Even the MET Opera channel has a disclaimer of how past performances might be problematic for today's audiences. It ends with, we are making them available because of the artistic merit we feel they have. Really, aren't I capable of distinguishing how certain practices, such as dark skin makeup for certain roles, might be offensive to today's audience AND aren't I capable of judging artistic merit? Anyhow my friend, your vids are always welcomed! I'm drinking a nice mocha java blend that was roasted Saturday. I grind my beans right before I put them in my French press. Hell, yeah! God's Peace my friend! Mike
I try to keep this channel a tad more serious but I am sure that may change as time passes by. I like having a more structured channel like this one. All good points you bring up and I especially agree with the capability to discern for yourself. We have pushed tolerance and inclusivity so hard that we have achieved the opposite. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed!
You might not know. They are already rewriting some classic books. To make them more political correct. To change how they read to forget the past in which it was written. I even heard of some company or institute. Using AI and rewriting the Bible.
I have and it is terrifying. It bothers me to think about Charles Dickens or Twain being revised to meet modern standards. The question I have been trying to answer is how do we challenge it? Hopefully, we can find our courage and figure something out. Thanks for watching my friend and stay blessed!
I get wanting revenge, but why did he have to ruin the other employees and the business owner? Gees, why isn't seeking forgiveness to the people who lives he made harder 😐
@@The_Cause I was being slightly hyperbolic, of course. I'm somewhat of a data hoarder. I have a 96TB server at home, of which approximately 24TB are books. I'm in a 3rd world eastern european country, so most books that I'd like to read simply aren't available, and with online orders, getting a paperback or a hardcover is pesky as they don't always arrive, get ruined at Customs and the shipping costs more than the book. I'm an avid reader, I'll never read all of those books, some of which are duplicates, but many of these things need to be preserved, and given how certain companies had the audacity to remove books off of users' bookreaders, I'd rather hoard eBooks than rely on Amazon and other electronic publishers and distributors for my books. To me personally (and many would disagree), the medium is irrelevant, the content is what matters. Papyrus, paper, stone tablet, ebook, audiobook, doesn't matter as long as I have the book..
All great points. After reading through the comments I think storing books on a hard drive is an important means to safeguard the material as well. Fire, floods, and other things can consume physical books in minutes. Do you mind if I ask what country you live in?
@@MarioKL Based Macedonian bro. Are you getting all of them from Libgen? I think they have a scrape option, where they let you download all of their data.
@@The_Cause Their "point" is that all of America's greatness was built on the backs of slaves--as if, after a long and hard day of picking cotton, the slaves went back to their shacks and wrote great literature or conducted science experiments. Yes, slavery was a tragedy, but trying to steal the credit for all of America's artistic and technological advances and claiming the slaves were the ones really responsible is pure nonsense.
@@aLadNamedNathan One of their main teachings is that the Revolutionary War was begun because the colonists knew Great Britain was about to abolish slavery - never mind that it was started in Boston and that the South was hardly involved until much later, or that most northern states got rid of slavery before Britain did.
@@CornerTalker Everything you say is true. Another fact is that Britain didn't begin trying to end the trans-Atlantic slave trade until 1807, nor did it move to end slavery itself until even later than that--long after the Revolutionary War was over.
I've been telling people for years to start building their own libraries, both physical and digital. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one raising the alarm.
Yes indeed! It is a very important thing indeed. Cheers to raising the alarm my friend and stay blessed!
@@The_Cause you too, mate!
Agreed
I was actually speaking with a librarian the other day and she mentioned that the books are disappearing. Meaning some higher government entity is removing them from the shelves so people don't have access to them. The book bans have already started way before they were open about banning books.
She also mentioned that alot of the old internet archives that had alot of old books that are no longer under copywright are being wiped.
People really should start collecting the old unabridged classics, because at some point they won't be available for the public anymore.
I am glad you mentioned this because I am going to touch on this in next week's coffee break. Library discarded books and how to get them. The more I think about it the more I realize how important this issue is becoming. Internet Archives like the Gutenberg project are so important but all it takes is the ownership falling into the wrong hands and the info is gone. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
@@The_Cause Yo, you should touch on how you can download the entire Gutenberg project, (or any website for that matter) onto a hard drive. We need to keep as many backups of these as possible, in case things get...complicated.
It's the Jews. They don't want you to know the past.
@@fabiangermanic1148 do you know how?
The "Orwell being relatively unknown" comment was sarcasm. Sorry if that was not clear. lol
We all know having an in-home library will inspire you to read more and foster an environment of education. There are other reasons as well. I hope you enjoy the video and let me know if you have started a home library of your own. As always stay blessed!
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Slinging beans and caffeinating dreams! That’s what it is all about Rob!
It's a good life indeed!
All good libraries deserve a coffee cup sitting somewhere in it. I dare say a library is not a library unless a coffee bar is included! Coffee, books, and freedom! Keep fighting the good fight you caffeinated disciple!
Oh there is always more than one coffee cup hanging around.
Was in a bookstore with a friend when I mentioned having heard that Agatha Christie's books were going to have their language changed, at which point he went and bought a bunch in order to have "unscrubbed" versions.
It is so crazy to even think that is happening. I have no problem with someone “creating new works” that are inclusive and fits the popular agenda of the day but if you start changing the works of the past because of disagreement, that is a scary precedent to set. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
@@The_Cause totally agree. Thank you. Blessings to you.
I'm glad I found this video, and your channel. My wife and I have an eBay bookstore, and we also sell books at our roadside stand. Many people that have stopped at our stand have told us that they are concerned that history is being changed, e-books can be turned off, books might one day be unavailable, etc. We've even had several people only interested in books that have been published prior to certain years. Whatever the reason, our sales are up this year. I've shared this video on Twitter and Facebook. Perhaps it will set a spark in more people. Keep up the good work. :)
They've been removing books for years. It's mostly political and about white people. Any book that talks about white replacement, or tries to talk about white people in a positive way is being removed.
Also it forces you to read and looks amazing
Both very true!!! Thanks for watching and stay blessed my friend!
I have always collected books……mostly classics, some biographies and history books but since the pandemic in 2020 I have been more selective…….because I fear they will attempt to rewrite history so I totally agree with you. Having your own home Library filled with physical books is an essential.
Along with books you should also collect older dictionaries they change or shorten the meaning of words as time goes on I like to know what they meant in the past.
I like to think of books as little moments in time caught and bound onto pages, waiting for us to read them. Which is why a home library is truly something that everyone should have in their home, no matter how big or small it may be. There’s always something to be learned from people of the past and present. Thank you for your wonderful video!
Exactly no matter how big or small. Quality over quantity if you do not have much room. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
What you say is so true. I read a quote from a writer decades ago that said much the same thing. I cannot recall the exact wording, but it was something like: “A moment happens, is experienced, and is as quickly forgotten. This is where the writer succeeds. He manages to capture a moment of life on the hop.”
Agreed, those people in the early days of our country had libraries in their homes, like TJ who donated his after the Library of Congress had been burned down by the British. With todays tech you can have as large a Library as you want - digitized - and print out those books you want to. I have a large collection of Authors - Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Dole, Paterson, and others that I downloaded from a torrent site years ago. If you are on a budget this is a good way to start your library
I was just talking to my twelve-year-old son about this the other day. He was asking me if he was going to inherit my Harvard 5 Foot, my 55 volume "Great Books" set, or my Delphian Courses set. I told him, "You're going to need them long before I die. Start collecting now." I was so blessed to invest roughly 200$ altogether. I'd become aware of them, start looking to collect, and then stumble upon people who had them and didn't know their value. It wasn't long after that I realized I really don't need any other books...
haha yes indeed! I hope my kids are even remotely interested in wanting my old sets. That would be a good father feeling moment right there! A few old sets such as the Great Books of the Western world will provide enough reading for years. And you are right. Sometimes I see deals and the kids are literally just giving them away. Going to discuss that in next weeks video. If you are patient, you can build a nice library pretty cheaply. Thanks for watching buddy and stay blessed!
The thing with those sets is they often don't have great translations, lack useful notes and support material and miss some key works.
@@folksurvival That would be #1 They used the translations at the time (around 1950s), #2they lack useful notes because they expect you to do SOME of the work and not just sit at home expecting to be spoon fed a very different approach from modern), and #3 It's a huge survey by its very nature of all the key components of western civilization as they understood it in 1950s. Some things we consider 'key works' now weren't then or had to be cut for greater works. And besides..the vast majority of these Great Works and more are available free on the internet anyway or from discount publishers. You can find The Iliad in full for like 5$. Dover Thrift is amazing for that.
It's so interesting to see the concept of a banned book becoming such a polarizing topic. The most terrifying part about this to me are the real banned books are the ones we will never know about. It's not the ones in the museums with thousands of copies being paraded as a "banned book". It's the ones where the powers that be conspire to buy every copy to make it unavailable, release a new edition with modified content, make it unavailable online, etc. Its the ones that get small publishers harrassed or bought out by the big ones. It's no coincidence that all the big publishers are owned by the same people. Thank you for making this video.
You need to look into piracy. Look into Samizdat movements, like modern Libgen and similar. If you want to preserve a book, get it in .epub or other digital formats, clean it and upload it to one of those sites. It's illegal, but it's also necessary. Eventually, they'll come after those sites and their serves, so you have to do it yourself.
Research important topics, find the best books on it and then become the one who saves it.
There is great interest in keeping the books, but there's an even greater interest in destroying them.
Right On! I just discovered your channel, and I share your passion for maintaining a personal, physical library.
Yes indeed! It is more important than ever now days. I am truly happy to have you here and hope you enjoy. Stay blessed my friend!
Same !
I've lived my entire life in a town which is home to a large, state-run university. Although my high school had its own library and my town has a public library, by the time I was in high school, my teachers were demanding of all of us pupils that we do the research for our research papers in the university library. Fortunately for us, anyone who was a "resident" (better expressed as "inhabitant") of my state could obtain a library card from the university library absolutely free of charge. After I became a university student, I saw the university library gradually become more and more restrictive during my time there. About a year after I got my master's degree and left the university, the library there changed its policy so that if one wasn't a professor or a student, one could have no access to the library without paying a $50 fee every semester. It was at that point that I said "screw this" and began amassing my own library. That was thirty years ago. Fortunately for me, at that same time I read Adler's _How to Read a Book,_ so the content of my library has some direction to it. It was Adler's book that alerted me to the fact of just how much I was cheated in my education.
Thanks so much for sharing. Adler's book was an eye-opener for me as well. We have so much to fix and as you mentioned this started so long ago. I do not even know what the path forward is to change it. I truly appreciate you watching my friend and stay blessed!
I remember that that the was the only to do research when I was young - I am 69 now - was to go to the library and look up the book and then read the book to find the information that you want, now it seems like libraries are slowly going extinct with the internet being so easy to access
Thank you mentioning How to Read a Book by Adler, I have downloaded it and will start reading it tonight, again thank you very much
Look at antique bookstores, get books from the 50’s and earlier. Especially books from the 1900’s and earlier.
I’ve always believed having access to books is one of the most important things in this life
I completely agree. If we ever lose that then we are entering some not very fun times. Thanks for watching and stay blessed!
Very true. Everyone should have a library of some kind
Yes indeed! Even a small one if there is not much room.
What a timely topic! I was fortunate to be raised in a family that cherished books and believed that a dedicated space for a home library was just as important as a bedroom and bathroom. I am currently curating a child's library collection for my first grandchild, making sure that the books I fill it with were printed before the 2000's, which is when I noticed the "narrative" really begin to ramp up. Ebay and Thrift Books are great resources to find earlier printings of books that haven't had their contents manipulated by publishers.
I envy you your family. My father always bragged about how he had a master's degree (in education, no less), but he also frequently uttered the words "I always hated to read." My family had pretentions of being educated, but those pretentions were hollow to the core.
@@aLadNamedNathan I used to think I was deprived because we never had a TV. My only escapism was to read the Harvard Classics. And now I am eternally grateful that my parents were luddites.😂
Now that is having your priorities in the right place! My wife and I were just talking about how important these books we are compiling will be when we have grandkids. I can only imagine what the narrative will be in another 15 to 20 years... Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
Just saw the no TV comment. We have recently made a decision to remove our from the living room and only use it on a dedicated movie night. The personalities that children mimic on TV are mind-blowing. I hope to raise them like your parents! haha
@@The_Cause When my own children were young, we were extremely poor and so we made the decision to cut out cable. We were fortunate to live in a rural area where the kids could go outside and play; 5 years and we didn't miss it. Even now that the kids are grown I don't have any cable or streaming services. If there's something I want to see, I will usually just buy it on disc to have and re-watch.
In times like these , books really are worth their weight in gold
Yes indeed! Fully agree with that!
I keep most of my library in digital format and print out those books that I want to hold on to by binding them.
How do you bind them? Are you just punching holes and putting them in a binder?
@@The_Cause You can if you want or there are videos on TH-cam that show you how to bind them or make a leather covering for them.
"A room without books is like a body without a soul" Cicero
haha yes indeed! I love that. Thanks my friend and stay blessed!
Two things in my house (besides family) that make me feel wealthy: my library and my wine cellar.
Haha yes indeed! I mean what really else is needed in life?! Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
My mother had assembled “Grandma Lo-Lo’s Banned Bookshelf”. Every book on it has been banned somewhere in the world.
I too have a home library that will be quite useful if and when the ‘grid’ stops functioning.
There's a museum of banned books (from any language) in Tallinn, Estonia.
haha that is a great idea! That would be a fun project to start. Grandma Lo-Lo understood what was probably coming. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
I love you for creating this channel. Please don't stop creating videos on self education 💖💖💖
Thanks so much! I am glad you enjoy them. I am most definitely going to keep publishing videos. I honestly really enjoy it! Thanks for watching and stay blessed!
I find this one of the most wholesome and valuable channels I watch. I always go away from the videos with a happyness and content.
You going to make me tear up Benrex! Pass me a tissue!
@@The_Cause If you come to Switzerland I gladly do that. I will even cheer you on while you run an ultramarathon. :P
Or if I go to America to visit the three people I like to meet then I will bring one with me too.
You are absolutely right - getting books with copyright in say 1900, is worth its weight in gold to me!
It's more than just a TH-cam backdrop. lol, love it.
haha yes indeed.. but books do make nice backdrops!
I watched one of your first videos a while back ago. Two weeks ago I happened to pick up a book at the library unknowingly choosing a Harvard Classic. I thought back to your video and decided to begin reading through the whole selections.
Thanks for the influence.
That is so awesome to hear! I am glad my videos helped inspire that. I humbly welcome you on this journey. I am sure you realize that it will be a long road to travel but please know that it is very rewarding. I have enjoyed it so much! Thanks for watching and stay blessed my friend!
Safegaurding of knowledge -- EXACTLY.
Yes indeed! It is an important subject that will become more important as the years go by. Thanks for watching and stay blessed my friend.
@@The_Cause Sorry for delayed response. You must read this, at lesast the part about the thrift store. There is a St. Vincent De Paul Thrift Store that I used to go to every-time I was in the area ( unfortunately, I don't go out that way much these days), anyway if you have a St. Vincent De Paul near your - GO there! Check it out because the one I used o go to ALWAYS had a lot of books - GOOD books! I found hard covers on Adams, Franklin ( Franklins Autobiography), I found the whole hard cover six volume set on Thomas Jefferson by Dumas Malone. One day I went there and there were maybe 40 books on the Civil War ( obviously someone’s collection who died, and the family gave it away. Out of that, I only bought a book on Lincoln which tells what tyrant he really was ( if you notice his monument, he’s seated on a throne lol - POS bastard, BUT he was shot, so he must have done somethng right, or the world oligarchic mafia wouldn’t have killed him. I found books in french ( which was weird because i live in Michigan), new books: Victor Hugo’s Notre de Paris, Le Petit Prince, new French English dictionaries, and books on verbs, all new. I found Shakespeare, things by the ancient Greeks and Romans ( my favorites, especially the Greeks and most especially Aristotle). Nothing cost me more than 2 or 3 dollars. My hardcover Jefferson set cost me 12.00 total. I guess you get the point.
I go to a lot of resale stores, because there are a bunch of them, near me, and some have a lot of books, but those books are 99 percent garbage -HOWEVER -- That St. Vincent was a gold mine, that never seemed to run out of gold. So, if you have one near you, you MUST check it out, and hopefully, it will be like the one I used to go to. Of course I must confess I don’t read, but I buy the books to safeguard knowledge. I might not read, but I know what’s worth reading and having in a personal library. Hope all that made sense. I like to write, but i don’t like to proofread and I type like someone with two broken index fingers, my fingers of choice when it comes to typing. I don’y read but I do journal, and that’s hop I practice and learn french. And just as an aside, since ai can never shut up, IF you are so inclined to learn a language, specifically French, ask me, and I can direct you to the best resources and methods to learn it. Czech Proverb: “Learn a new language, get a new soul.” THAT is TRUE. Nothing has ever stimulated my mind like “trying” to learn french. Did you know 40% of english comes from french? That’s because of William the Conqueror, and the Norman Invasion in 1088. The “ English” royals ( who weree after William french speaking vikings lol) spoke french, not english, so for the next 300 years that’s what the royals spoke. Did you know Richard the Lionhearted, the English national hero, didn’t speak english? He also came from France, slightly south of Normandy. I never knew that. Sorry. I ramble like a runaway train rumbling down a mountain side once I get started. Excuse my typing, and spelling.
The alteration in the contents to fit woke agendas has veen happening with all literature and media for decades. And you make here a point for something I never considered: to become a guardian of knowledge despite it being ubiquitous nowadays.
A brilliant point and worth our collective effort.
Yes indeed! Like a high tide the water is everywhere but all of a sudden you look around and the boat no longer floats... I think we could see the same with information and books one day. I truly appreciate you watching and stay blessed my friend!
It's like when Ballantine Books released the Bal-Hi Edition of "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury for high school students. It had changes made to not offend their young minds. It is a book about critiquing censorship, and the official publisher of the book was slowly censoring the book.
After Bradbury had them immediately stop and only print the original, uncensored version, he added a Coda section and said, "Fire-Captain Beatty...described how the books were burned first by minorities, each ripping a page or a paragraph from this book, then that, until the day came when the books were empty and the minds shut and the libraries closed forever."
I originally wanted to type out the conversation between Beatty and Montag when Beatty says, "...the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be." Then I realized I wanted to quote nearly 7 pages from Beatty arrives to when he leaves Montag's house. So if you're interested, the full conversation is on pages 51-58 in Fahrenheit 451. I have the 60th Anniversary Edition, but it should be on a similar page number for other uncensored versions.
So awesome! I will look it up today! I have been thinking of doing my next 8 book series on those types of books. 1984, Fahrenheit 451, animal farm, brave new world, etc. to give me a break from non-fiction I may just do that! Thanks for sharing and stay blessed my friend!
Brilliant commentary and content - as usual! You offer a strong word of caution.
Thanks so much for the kind words! I truly appreciate you always tuning in. Stay blessed my friend!
True, can wait
Stumbled across this video and wanted to say "kudos" -- I agree with you completely on the importance of building one's own physical library, no matter the genre or topics of interest, but especially in acquiring unabridged pre-1950 books going all the way back to the Classics of Greece and Rome, etc., if that is where one's interest lies.. I'm in my 60s, dismayed by where our society seems headed (I pray it isn't full-on "1984"), and so also agree with most of your comments. I pray I live long enough to pass my library on to my grand-nieces and grand-nephews (alas, their parents have no interest in physical books). Thank you for sharing your insights and ideas. Blessings.
It’s interesting when you discover that there are certain niches. That are not popular enough and the core content was published in the 19th and early twentieth centuries, that there are real gaps of information online. Great video, thank you
Good advice. I started collecting copies of primary and secondary sources of history, particularly the revolutionary period, years ago when i became aware of revisionary history.
That is my focus right now. I am trying to get my hands on as many old-quality revolutionary period books as possible. That is a period of history worth studying because many of the Revolutions we learn about failed. Very few have ever succeeded and that is a dangerous education to provide people if the goals of government ever become malign. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed!
What are some of your titles?
As I've gotten older, I rarely read physical books anymore, but have a bunch of audiobooks collected on old devices.
The books I do have are on home maintenance, shop projects, survival, herbalism/plant guides & quite a few history books with only a couple of classics.
When it comes down to it, you'll need more books for practical knowledge for fixing & building things as well as scrounging than classics.
Collect what interests you outside of those & old history books, otherwise don't worry too much about fictional classics.
Good point to have old books like that as well. I have some old books of dads that are leather working, knots, and rope making. I do not need them now but you never know when the day will come we may have to blow the dust off and figure that stuff out again. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed!
If preservation of knowledge is the aim, I would also recommend building a digital library as well. I know some like/do not like to read ebooks (I'm indifferent) but it is good to store these in multiple mediums. If we are drawing from dystopian fiction, Farenheit 451, for example, is about *physical* books being burned. Even if we never see a time like that, what happens if your house floods or catches fire by accident? All of those books would be lost. Back them up in case of emergency. It also helps share what may become rare knowledge with others by just copying the files and giving it to them. I would recommend against Amazon kindles because while they are easy and portable, Amazon could remove a book and you would lose access to it. Use PDFs and EPubs, storing stuff on your computer, phone, or a more open ereader (I use a supernote nomad and love it.) This doesn't negate having a physical library, in case something were to happen to your digital storage, but it adds useful redundancy
This is very solid advice. Actually, the comments on this video have really opened my eyes to other issues around this one. We flooded a few years back so I can most definitely see the purpose of having alternative backups. Thanks for sharing and this is something I will definitely be looking into. Stay blessed my friend!
I've got a sizable home library with about 1.5k books. Sure, I've not read all of them, but pretty much any book I do want to eventually read is there. The classics, philosophy, criticism, contemporary masterpieces. And it's a resource not just for me but for my daughter as she grows into her own love of books.
It seems to happen quite often; start with convenience and easy access, then begin limiting access and controlling availability after converting people to it. This has been slowly happening to the internet, just as it is happening with access to books.
Couldn’t agree more with all your reasoning brother! And especially as it comes to older books - the new updated and improved versions are a waking nightmare 😱
A walking nightmare indeed! haha Glad you enjoyed it and thanks so much for watching. Stay blessed my friend!
Another great video Rob. Looking forward to seeing where you go with this idea of a personal library. Thank you sir. 🤝🏼
Thanks Ken! I think next week's video will be helpful for anyone who is like me and trying to do it on a budget. Truly appreciate you watching my friend and stay blessed!
I love collecting and reading books, just recently got a big book on the Civil War illustrated by early photography.
Such a great video with a really helpful perspective. I have not thought about it that way! Thank you for sharing 🌱
Glad to hear you enjoyed the video. My wife and I were discussing it a week or so back and we are seeing it become more and more important to own some old books. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed!
Okay, when I travel I always take my Nintendo DS XL … not for any games other than chess, etc. … but for 100 classic books data card, both British and American editions giving me about 140 books, of which some 40 to 50 have my interest.
The number of times I’ve been stranded somewhere because of natural disasters or civil unrest and completely off grid … having a 140 book library 📚 is a wonderful thing (add another 40 books from the 100 classic children’s stories, too).
Oh, yeah, and I always took an emergency power unit for the Nintendo (good to have during electricity brownouts).
00:11 : that is my library!!!! ... more or less
Let me know when I can come visit and I will bring the coffee! Haha Stay blessed my friend.
@@The_Cause any time, my friend, any time! BTW: I appreciate your channel very much.
I appreciate hearing that my friend!
I didn't realize this was a problem until a few years ago. I read a biography which had a section documenting the person's involvement with a certain political movement.
At a much later date, one of my buddy was asking me about it so I got the eBook. To my shock, those sections were completely missing. There were no signs at all. I had to go double check with my physical copy just to make sure I wasn't misremembering.
Oh wow. What a telling story. I feel it is one of those things that go unnoticed so often that we do not even realize it is occurring. Thanks for sharing my friend. Stay blessed!
Great Video. I recently bought a book on Alexander the great and noticed that it was very politically motivated ion which they competently changed the history of this great man.
I have seen that as well. We read through a lot of kid books because of my kids ages and some I have to pull from the stack. Political agendas in children who are just learning to read blows my mind. Thanks for watching and stay blessed my friend!
Could you please tell me the name of that book?
Not only did you open my mind to a whole new issue I was not aware of but you also gave me a good reason to convince my wife for more books 😆
haha yes indeed! Tell her it is for the welfare and safety of humanity! Thanks so much for watching my friend and stay blessed!
Thanks for a very informative video, I have been building my library slowly over time with classics like Dickens, Shakespeare, Homer, Julius Ceasars works, Ben Franklin, to name a few, I start out digitally by downloading them and then printing them out and then binding them, I have some audio books like the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, what I miss are the Encyclopedias that I grew up with but there is the World Almanac and Book of Facts or Poor man's Encyclopedia. I am looking forwarding to your next video and will get the old version of Roald Dahl, there was a video done about Georgie's Medicine on TH-cam that was very good to listen and watch. Take care and stay well and happy
Nice! Sounds like a very nice collection. Audio books are great to in my opinion. Nice to have a good collection there as well. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
@@The_Cause I have some of my books in audio format too, like Harry Potter and Christopher Hitchens for example, You can either get the audiobooks from TH-cam, a Torrent website or Audible, for my printed out books I put them in a plastic sheet and then a binder, next I am going to bind them like the books you get at a book store
Nice! You know I have been having this urge to learn how to book bind and get into that art. Good luck with it my friend!
Great exposition! I was made aware of this issue some years ago, especifically about ebooks, so I always check if they are abridged or worse "revised".
Yes indeed. I never thought to check in the past but now I do as well. I can see how the ebooks could be impacted by this issue more. Thanks so much for watching my friend. Stay blessed!
Thank you for that! I have been thinking for years that it was very important to collect old books because of the digitalization of books. After seeing your video about the Harvard Classics, I went out and purchased them and am glad that I did! I would also highly recommend reading "The Story Of Civilization" by Will Durant.
Collecting old books is most definitely more important than ever. At a book fair, I picked up a set of Will Durant's Story Of Civilization a few months back. What a wonderful set of books that is. Planning to go through them with the kiddos in a few years. Glad to hear you were able to find a set of the Harvard Classics. Keep fighting the good fight my friend and stay blessed!
Make sure that your floor joists (runners) run adjacent to the bookshelf, not parallel. Otherwise you have 500lbs+ of books and shelf resting on one or two joists.
That is some solid advice! We underestimate how much the weight adds up. Thanks for watching and stay blessed my friend!
I dont understand what this sentence means, could you explain? (I not english native)
Excellent! Thank you for pointing out that review and how part of the book had been removed. years ago I watched a video about universities scanning books and destroying physical copies. If anyone wanted access to the scanned book they had to be alumni of the university. How's that for orwellian? My son LOVES text books and older ones at that. Our own library started destroying older books. We were heart broken. But we have noticed that more of the older books are slipping back into the basement for sale instead of going straight to the recycler. Also, about 4 years ago I went to the library for books on The Great Depression. They didn't have a single book on the subject. The librarian was more shocked than I was.
A lot of people who read will read ebooks. They don't realize the ebook can be removed from their harddrive at any time and they're paying money to rent the books. They don't actually own them. If I'm paying money to read a book, I want to own that book. Thankfully, the last time we were at our library basement sale, the woman who runs it, chatted with us and we left with three large boxes. We bought a lot of history and older books. I told her I love whomever it was that donated all of these older books and appreciate the library selling them. Hopefully she'll realize their importance.
I'm looking forward to your next video on building a home library Rob. 👍👍
Great comment! Love this! It is so scary the times we are living in regarding information and books. These comments have made me aware of the ebook drawbacks. I did not realize they could be removed or even altered after purchasing. I am very much looking forward to sharing next week's video because as you mentioned little bookstores, donations of old books, and library discards are all great places to find affordable books. Thank you so much for watching and I truly hope you stay blessed!
I have hundreds of books (mostly fiction), but since this year I have also started to buy ebooks because of space issues. I was hesitant at first because of the DRM, but luckily I solved that problem, making sure that whatever happens, I keep an original file. Whenever I read an ebook worth buying, I will do so, but it helped filtering the physical pile.
Great video! I've been thinking the same. I love having custom leatherbound books made, I recently got all of Gibbon's volumes in a beautiful and classic red and black leather cover. There's something about having the book in your hand, and having a nice cover certainly doesn't hurt. It adds to the experience and you feel more connected to the book as it has been bounded to your likings.
Most of my friends don't understand why I spend so much on a custom-made book when I can have the PDF of it for free. I'm sure most watching this channel can relate.
oh wow! Where do you get them custom made at? I would like to look into that. Thanks for watching and stay blessed my friend!
That sounds like pure bliss!
@@juliaforsyth8332 It indeed is! Definitely a worthwhile purchase. Strange my comment with the links to the binders' is being removed. I'll post again without the links.
@@The_Cause There are many of these custom book binder especially those based in India. The one I bought from is called GyanBooks here in India but sell under the name of Rare Biblio in America.
They customize the book to your exact preferences, you can decide the leather colour, gold-leafing pattern, cover text, cover graphics etc.
If you're interested I can send you the owner's contact, he's quite nice and he might give you a good deal if you mention your channel.
Don't know why but my reply comment got deleted maybe because it contained links. Looking forward to your next video!
I mean, in all i want to mention, even though my past inquiries, the best way for modemr day knowledge gain is reading on audiobooks and writing down future audiobooks tk read
Amen!
yes indeed! Two times for the ones in the back! haha Thanks for watching and stay blessed my friend.
Great video! I have many books and will keep buying classic (unabridged) older books just to ensure I’m getting the real deal.
When I heard WEF say they can create a new Bible. Nope! I now have several real Bibles just ensure AI isn’t being used.
Looking forward to your next video! I really enjoy them!
It is almost hard to believe what is capable of happening now. Blows my mind with the WEF stuff. I am with you on collecting the older books and slowly compiling a small library of classics. I honestly do not know any other way to challenge what is occurring. Thanks so much for watching my friend and stay blessed!
Oh my gosh, I _so_ agree! On occasion I've found poems on reputable poetry sites that are missing couplets or in one case even a stanza. I was shocked and wondered what percentage of their poems have errors. I was also worried because I only found these problems because I happened to know those poems pretty well -- what about younger users, who haven't been educated to memorize poems or even just read them multiple times? How would they even know there's a problem?
Can’t wait I meant
I will be honest, when I clicked away from this video to do a bit of writing (still hearing you in the background) I couldn't help but imagine the firemen with their helmets and their guns, 451 like the emblem of a nation on their brow, smashing into the houses of the book lovers to kill them and burn their books. Orwell and Ray Bradbury knew what they were talking about. I think Bradbury was more on point than Orwell, but that could be personal preference. If you have time to read some books aside from the Harvards, check out Bradbury, Rob. He has valid points that hold up today, fifty years later.
Love and Peace.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and love for the books! You’re right, Ray Bradbury and Orwell are both great thinkers. Their predictions seem to be becoming more and more relevant with the times. I just finished Fahrenheit 451 a few months back. What a great book! I read it right after making this video and wish I could have mentioned this book in it. Thanks for watching and stay blessed my friend!
@The_Cause
Glad to hear you like Fahrenheit! Funnily enough Bradbury wrote that book in the basement of a library on a rented typewriter.
Another good one, that sort of shook me, was a short story by him called "Bright Phoenix" which is a sort of prequel to Fahrenheit. Book burning is just starting up, and the librarian gives them the books. But what was interesting was the fact that everyone in the town could quote the great books! Like it was air in the lungs. It scared the firemen so bad they left. But what sort of struck me there was this. There isn't a town, anywhere!, in modern America that has an entire population who can quote the Bible, Abraham Lincoln, or the Great Poets. If we could get a population together, to actually be interested, there would be no need to worry about book burning. However, as Bradbury himself said, "there is more than one way to burn a book. And many people are running around with lit matches."
Again, thank you for sharing with us these great books, Mr. Milton. 😉
God bless, Love and Peace.
What a great quote! I will have to check out that book. I liked the flow of Bradbury's writing. Truly appreciate you kind words and thanks for sharing!
Great video, always search for the most true version of the book you want to read
That is a very good point indeed. In the past, I never really thought about having to do that. Most definitely something I consider nowadays. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
@@The_Cause yeah same at the beginning. But one time i discussed with someone about the change in some books through the time and that person told me if i wanted to read 1984, i should buy the oldest version of it, because in my country they changed some sentences and words in the book because it was too relevant in our today society and government. I guess more than language actualisation, its a change of the book identity and ideology that is being changed
Wow.. do you know what country your friend was from? Curious what country was doing that.
I recently asked *”what books did the Nazis burn”* and… I can’t fault them for it.
That is a very important part in history for people to research indeed. We often think it was all books but they do seem to have been very specific in the beginning. Seems they broadened there fire pit as more controversial topics were added. Sometimes what may start out as moral intentions can end up opening the gates to genocide. That is a time period that we should all study. Thanks for watching and stay blessed my friend!
Stoked to know I’m not the only one to question what we’ve been given in schools as the “bad” in history.
What the fuck seriously your reasoning with the book burning crowd?
@@cyancat8633 Reasoning? Yes. What’s the point of reading, thinking, understanding and forming one’s own judgements if you only arrive at accepted narratives? You should try it.
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Let us not forget which books the national socialists burned.
It might be prudent to look up Magnus Hirschfeld and Frankfurter Schule
Great point!
A very good topic to explore indeed. Often history repeats itself but from the other side of the pendulum. Maybe one day we can take the lessons and apply them. Frankfurter was a good read. Never heard of him until now. Thanks so much for sharing.
Time is a flat circle:)
I’m going to have to ponder on that one. Lol Thanks for watching my friend!
Might be a good time to by an encyclopedia set
Yes indeed! haha
Also, great content here!
Truly appreciate hearing that. Thanks buddy!
@@The_Cause Surely. Thank you!
Even if you buy an ebook it can be revised without your knowledge electronically but they can't do that with a physical book
I never thought about the ebook revisions until I started reading through these comments but that is definitely true. I have a couple but not many. I will most definitely continue slowly picking up old physical books as they come my way. Truly appreciate you watching my friend and stay blessed!
@The_Cause I've only read one ebook just to see what it was like and I hated it. That book btw was War and Peace
@@stretmediq Haha well at least you chose a "short" one! I have not read that one yet but I have seen its size.
@The_Cause well I read it before and the chapters actually tend to be rather short and I read it between running emergency calls on an ambulance when I was a paramedic
Cool ideas.
Have to think about it some more. I'd like if you would go a little more in-depth into the argument for the cultivation of a personal library with regards to preventing institutions from controlling the past. It remained a bit unclear for me.
Warm regards
Mr. Hoorn
You should do a video of your library and showcase the book you have
I am going to show a few of them in the next coffee break but a full tour would be fun. Thanks for recommending! Stay blessed my friend!
Blows my mind that you’d submit yourself to NPR
NPR concerning the radio? I don’t think I even mentioned the radio. Thanks for watching and stay blessed my friend!
A question for you, Ive been sticking around ever since the first post of the Harvard series and they are so good! I was wondering what editing software you use.
I use Adobe Premiere for video editing and I use Canva for thumbnails and Broll. Adobe also has many other programs such as illustrator and Lightroom that I use. Hope that answers your question and thanks so much for following along my friend. Stay blessed!
@@The_Cause God bless!
Only an American could say that "1984" by Orwell was a relatively unknown book.
I meant it as sarcasm but maybe I said it too seriously. Lol thanks for watching my friend and stay blessed!
Glad to hear! haha
Do you have any tips for how to know if a book has been revised or edited to omit certain language/content? Maybe just books that were published before certain year?
If you want to understand your fathers read the books they did. I started my library with the original works my father read in Spanish, then my mother's. I cannot stress enough the importance of different points of view with the subject of history.
Different points of view and also different periods written. Older books are perfect for that as well. Really cool you can read history in Spanish because I bet that offers an even deeper perspective. Thanks so much for watching my friend and stay blessed!
There is an additional problem that you didn’t mention. Young people who don’t experience physical media are losing the ability to recognize genre and credibility differences that physical media would have trained them to recognize. What’s the difference between a newspaper and a blog? Nothing on the visual level if they both reside on a webpage. But the difference between a physical copy of the Times and a pamphlet that someone wrote at home is immediately obvious. I’m no economist, but I also wonder about the stability of an economy where physical money is someday irrelevant.
Very good point. The only time I see anyone with a newspaper is when I see the machinist at work on lunch break. What is crazy is how fast all that was replaced and changed too. I remember Mom cutting out coupons from the newspapers. Times have changed indeed. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!
I think powerful people, keep philosophical and business books on their shelves. Is it okay for me to start with fictional books, I have a couple of genres on my bookshelf, and I only own 60 books.
I think so. Good literature comes in many forms. I personally think a well rounded set of books is great. Great philosophy, nice poetry, non fiction and fiction. Good luck on your library my friend! Stay blessed!
@@The_Cause Thanks so much! I feel kind of lucky to get a reply from you, I am sure that soon your channel will grow exponentially and you won't have time to reply to all the comments, love you videos man, keep the great work up! :D
I would live to see the channel grow to a nice size but sadly, as you mentioned ruined, I would not be able to keep up with the comments at that point. This is a nice size to still interact with everyone. I am feel blessed that people even care to watch! Haha
I am seeing something even worse lately. One example is a channel apparently dedicated to the works of CS Lewis. What I found was that some of the material was AI Generated in the style of Lewis, and it was even using an AI generated copy of his voice for the narration. Most people could tell thst it was an AI voice but many of the comments were asking, I can tell that the voice is AI, but which work from Louis was this text originally from?” Its very troubling to see where this is leading. As you described in your video,the samr troubles come to my mind.
This has also happened to authors and popular speakers who are still alive. Misattributing AI material to people who make a living on writing and public speaking.I always imagined that people were smart enough to keep educational and historical resources safe, but now I am afraid it is becoming more like Orwell imagined.
I always say that my books are my most priced possessions (probably not only metaphorically but literally 😅).
And hell, even if I politically lean towards progressivism/liberalism, that censorship and modification of past works for the sake of "inclusivity" is awful, how are we truly going to move forward if we are this condescending and dismissive of the past?
I think they are mine as well! haha If a fire breaks out and the family is safe, books are the next thing I am saving! haha. Ya the politicalization of everything is such a bummer. Live and let live is my view on it. If you do not like it don't read it or create something new but do not change it because you disagree. That starts to enter dangerous territory. Truly appreciate you watching my friend and stay blessed!
The downside with physical books is that they can become damaged over time. I have some extant early 20th century books, and some of them are in significantly better shape than others. 😅 Books are made from materials that don't last forever.
Very true but if kept in a good controlled environment they should last for a good while. The issue with the books you are referring to is that many were in non air conditioned or heated environments for a good portion of their existence. I will agree that the quality of books made today will most likely not last anywhere near as long as the older ones. As others have mentioned a good variety of storage methods is probably the best method. Thanks so much for watching and would love to know what your oldest book collected is? Stay blessed my friend!
Its funny because this video reminds me of how Sun & Steel by Mishima is basically impossible to find a physical copy of nowadays. Most likely because Mishima's proposal might be seen as dangerous alt-right or fascist ideology or at the very least contradictory to modern values. Makes you wonder how much popular philosophy could have been twisted from it's original text such as Nietzsche seeing how he's so controversial in his relation to Nazism.
Personal library: there’s no point in getting a dog if you’re not going to pet it. 👍
haha yes indeed! Thanks for watching Mike and stay blessed!
My problem is not the capability to build up a library. I have the luxury of enough surplus money for that. My problem lies in the fact that I tend to prioritize more dopamin rich activities. Because of that, the number of pages I read per day isn't too large.
Also technology is at a point where they could manipulate and change any digital copy you own, especially if they are on a cloud. I don't think they do it as of now, but it is only a matter of time, if things go on like this. As far as I'm aware technology is not advanced enough to do that with printed books. :)
I think we all struggle with the phone now days. If you use technology for work it is hard not to get distracted at different points of the day. I hop on here to answer comments and 30 minutes later I am watching the trailer to some movie being released. haha Discipline is a heck of a thing to master. I battle that daily. I hope all has been well brother and stay blessed!
@@The_Cause Things are always well in my household. I hope the same thing applies to you too.
I find it utterly terrifying and revolting that people would change a book without the author’s explicit permission. If you don’t like/agree with a book, write your own.
I can’t stand abridged versions either. They are, by definition, not what the author intended.
I wish people would respect the effort and creative decisions made by the people who actually wrote the books, especially heirs that are just making money of somebody else’s work.
I agree. I understand there are copyright laws and they expire but going back and revising the works of Charles Dickens or Mark Twain or any others just really infuriates me. The real problem is that we lack the courage to do anything about it and that is a humble reality to swallow.
@@The_Cause Whenever I see the announcement of a “revised” edition, I take notes on the editorial team and avoid buying other books by them. If the consumer clearly signals they are not spending their money on that sort of crap, the marked will be more likely to correct itself.
People ask me all the time why my library is so large. Why keep books around. Read and release... HGTV and the minimalist lifestyle has done just as much damage to people as those who want to edit the content. Feel free to come browse my stacks anytime. I also have two french presses available in the library for... reasons.
Haha yes indeed! I admire your reasons. Hard to pass up a good french press coffee and a library. Thanks so much for watching my friend and stay blessed!
If you're so smart, maybe you should look into what exact books were the N burning.
I have. Further down in the comments we go into it. Most would be suprised to learn which ones they started with. Thanks for the friendly comment. Stay blessed!
@@The_Cause Nice. Here's a friendly book recommendation "The International Jew", by Henry Ford. Yes, Henry Ford.
Ironically Amazon does not have it. lol I found it on some other sites though. I will have to check it out. I am aware of what side he was on but I have not read very deep into it. Thanks for sharing!
Rob, thanks for these! I've been buying my beans for about 30 years from our legendary roaster, John, at Salt Lake Roasting Co.I didn't realize you had another channel. Wow! It was great just seeing your sense of humor.
I fully agree with having physical media. I'm a classical music/opera geek and it's amazing to me how limited the ability to purchase CDs has become. Even on Amazon, classic performances that have always been in print are now no longer in print and generally cost a lot via third party. Some great works have become rare because ideas or concepts don't reflect today's PC values. Even the MET Opera channel has a disclaimer of how past performances might be problematic for today's audiences. It ends with, we are making them available because of the artistic merit we feel they have. Really, aren't I capable of distinguishing how certain practices, such as dark skin makeup for certain roles, might be offensive to today's audience AND aren't I capable of judging artistic merit?
Anyhow my friend, your vids are always welcomed! I'm drinking a nice mocha java blend that was roasted Saturday. I grind my beans right before I put them in my French press. Hell, yeah! God's Peace my friend! Mike
I try to keep this channel a tad more serious but I am sure that may change as time passes by. I like having a more structured channel like this one. All good points you bring up and I especially agree with the capability to discern for yourself. We have pushed tolerance and inclusivity so hard that we have achieved the opposite. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed!
You might not know. They are already rewriting some classic books. To make them more political correct. To change how they read to forget the past in which it was written. I even heard of some company or institute. Using AI and rewriting the Bible.
I have and it is terrifying. It bothers me to think about Charles Dickens or Twain being revised to meet modern standards. The question I have been trying to answer is how do we challenge it? Hopefully, we can find our courage and figure something out. Thanks for watching my friend and stay blessed!
I get wanting revenge, but why did he have to ruin the other employees and the business owner? Gees, why isn't seeking forgiveness to the people who lives he made harder 😐
What are you referencing? I do not understand the question.
Hmm, let's do a little test... Would you be okay with it if conservative books were banned?
I am not okay with any books being banned or altered. Why one side or the other would think it is okay blows my mind.
>You should own a home library
I do have one, it's 24TB large.
I would like to see what 24 TB of books would look like in a physical room! That is a lot of data! Have you used all 24TB up?
@@The_Cause I was being slightly hyperbolic, of course.
I'm somewhat of a data hoarder. I have a 96TB server at home, of which approximately 24TB are books. I'm in a 3rd world eastern european country, so most books that I'd like to read simply aren't available, and with online orders, getting a paperback or a hardcover is pesky as they don't always arrive, get ruined at Customs and the shipping costs more than the book.
I'm an avid reader, I'll never read all of those books, some of which are duplicates, but many of these things need to be preserved, and given how certain companies had the audacity to remove books off of users' bookreaders, I'd rather hoard eBooks than rely on Amazon and other electronic publishers and distributors for my books.
To me personally (and many would disagree), the medium is irrelevant, the content is what matters. Papyrus, paper, stone tablet, ebook, audiobook, doesn't matter as long as I have the book..
All great points. After reading through the comments I think storing books on a hard drive is an important means to safeguard the material as well. Fire, floods, and other things can consume physical books in minutes. Do you mind if I ask what country you live in?
@@The_Cause North Macedonia.
@@MarioKL Based Macedonian bro. Are you getting all of them from Libgen? I think they have a scrape option, where they let you download all of their data.
This is the purpose of The 1619 Project.
I will be honest, I have not looked into it enough to judge it very well. What point are they trying to convey in it?
@@The_Cause The 1619 project is everything you are warning us about but on steroids. It is a revisionist history project conceived in 1984. Avoid
@@The_Cause Their "point" is that all of America's greatness was built on the backs of slaves--as if, after a long and hard day of picking cotton, the slaves went back to their shacks and wrote great literature or conducted science experiments. Yes, slavery was a tragedy, but trying to steal the credit for all of America's artistic and technological advances and claiming the slaves were the ones really responsible is pure nonsense.
@@aLadNamedNathan One of their main teachings is that the Revolutionary War was begun because the colonists knew Great Britain was about to abolish slavery - never mind that it was started in Boston and that the South was hardly involved until much later, or that most northern states got rid of slavery before Britain did.
@@CornerTalker Everything you say is true. Another fact is that Britain didn't begin trying to end the trans-Atlantic slave trade until 1807, nor did it move to end slavery itself until even later than that--long after the Revolutionary War was over.
you have actual brainrot
What makes you think that? Something you disagree with? Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed my friend!