Oh man, the movie stickers drive me nuts! Also the rewrites and modernizing of classics really annoy and sadden me. I agree with you. Open a discussion if it bothers you, don't ruin it for everyone else not offended by it.
I heard about the Roald Dahl rewrites too. I believe that the UK publishers are the ones that greenlit the major changes and the US ones refused. I could be wrong though. 😅 Either way I’m with you on how wrong it is to change art to make it pc. The whole point of art is to make us assess and question our understanding of the world around us and our place in it. You can’t do a lot of self-reflection in a completely sterilized environment.
10/10 BRAVO. Don't get me started on tv and movie sticker tie ins, hideous! And as for rainbow shelves NOOOOOOO . Also people that call themselves book reviewers that don't actually review. Have an opinion. Oh.... and people that apologise all the time and get super defensive for buying books.....duh..................and breathe.
Laughing about the Thriftbooks sticker. 😂That sticker is annoying! It is so hard to get off of the spine! If I am putting it on a shelf I definitely find a way to get it off(a tiny dab of Goo Be Gone). However, I buy a lot that go in bins for my kids(usually for educational purposes) and sometimes those suckers stay put!
This was hilarious! And we’re SO with you on the color-coded bookshelves 🤢 Thank you so much for the shout out, too! We have the booktube newbie tag going up next, and then we’re doing this one! -Billy and Noelle
I thought you were nitpicky about the cover style changing, until I remembered my Signet paperback Shakespeare collection, and how the spines have changed over the years -- the circle S has changed several times, and sometimes there's a black band, and one book has a black oval with Signet Classic inside, but the author is listed as just "Shakespeare" instead of the full name. They did keep more-or-less the same fonts for title (block) and author (italic). Big whoop, I know, but it's a lot of books and it looks funny on the shelf. We have one little library box in front of some townhouses, and I've never seen anyone go near it, or any interesting books in it either. It stands, untouched, and I may have to make a project of it.
I completely get it - you want a set of books to look like a MATCHING set of books. It would be great if you took on the Little Free Library as a project. Good luck!
One of my biggest annoyances is covers that are not uniform especially at the spine. Also some books that have a cover nearly the same as all the others in the series. e.g six books and the covers are perfectly uniform but the character is facing a slightly different direction to the point its hard to know what book is in what order or if its already been purchased or forgotten.
@@mildrumpus I am now watching your Girl Scout Cookie Tag. Love how you outlaid your channel and I think in this channel I will do Tags that are appropriate for middle grade readers. Thanks friend I am enjoying your channel.😀
This was a fantastic rant! 😂 Your feelings about Jennette McCurdy’s book are similar to my feelings about Britney Spears’ book. Do I even need to read it anymore? (I’ve also recently discovered the Celebrity Memoir Book Club podcast, which is delightfully snarky. I may not care if they spoil it for me.)
I just knew this tag would be up your alley! One thing I've realized watching these videos is that deckled edges may be divisive, but the rainbow bookshelves seem to be a unanimous thumbs down!
This was a wild ride! 😅 I enjoyed listening to your annoyances. I will admit to having rainbow shelves and I will die on that hill. I never have issues finding my books and I love how it looks. 😅
This is my first video of yours that I have watched and I had a ball watching this video! I may be inclined to either film this myself or film something with the other Gladiators. We will have to see. I, too, am in agreement that a great cover scheme is very enticing when it comes to garnering my attention. In particular, I like simple covers, such as the Stephen King Signet editions, the Hermann Hesse Picador editions, and many of Heinrich Boll's books have nice covers. Barnes & Noble Classics has good covers as well, but I wish they would publish more books, because I feel that they have reached their limit. If you ran out of classics, go find some more, because they are out there! Spoilers do annoy me, but I do my best to tolerate them. One of my English instructors spoiled the ending to Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina in the same class. I was slightly spoiled by the ending to Gone Girl between an episode of Jeopardy! and a television special gave me an idea as to the circumstance as hand in which a woman ran away from her husband and daughter. I keep thinking it was an episode of 20/20. I am more of a bookstore person, but anytime someone annotates a book and it ends up being for sale or borrowing, it annoys me. I buy books to read myself. If I wanted an annotated version, I would look for an annotated version. I can only imagine what Little Free Librarys can warrant. The woman who censored the book is entertaining in her own right, but I would still find it annoying. I remember reading Stephen King novels in 8th grade and the teachers had to censor out the inappropriate words and text. I agree 110% about book club stamps on books. My copy of The Reader has the Oprah "O," because it was a selection for Oprah's Book Club. I took a piece of index card and taped over it and because the book was white, it blended in perfectly. I do not care about book club stamps! I am not fond of movie tie-in books either. Novellas in short story collections? I do not really care. Many of them engage in this method. Richard Matheson did this with I Am Legend and The Shrinking Man, but they headlined the collection. Stephen King inserted The Mist into Skeleton Crew. Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis is frequently utilized this way, but I label it as a short story or novelette anyway. Yep, characters decisions get pretty annoying, but it would take too long to list them. I organize my books in a way that sorts out the genre, the writer, and their books roughly in chronological order in which they were written. I have my own methods, other have theirs, but I definitely feel that the reading experience takes priority over the visual experience. Thank you for sharing! -Josh
By the way, I just received five packages from Thrift Books tonight. Just want you to know I’m sitting here scratching all the white labels off of the spines!😊
Oh yep. Matching books, colour arrangements of books - not a reader. Collect books for their cover only and their sprayed edges - not a reader. Books are brand new as never handled, never dropped, never coffeed or snacked on, never opened- not a reader. Book shelves super neat - not a reader. Messy shelves are readers, those books are used. Not harmed, used. Keep them slighty loose. Not too many in a row. No more than 3 on a vertical stack. Never get from bookshelf by the top. Basic book care is evident by shelves, and if the owner is a reader. Books carefully stacked many high on top of each other - not a reader and worse, a book killer. So many people have books, so few read. They're a decor item now, just see the lairy 'haul' books in unboxings - solely judged by the cover. That's my complaint of the day. Your complaints much better, enjoyed thank you.
Oh, goodness, The Giving Tree! I have not seen your video on it. But I hated that book! I guess because I only read it after I was well into adulthood. It was SO DEPRESSING and awful!
Very entertaining! I definitely agree witht the printed stickers, whatever they advertse, just let the book be a book. Design a good cover if you want to market it. Book store stickers that leave residue is another pet peeve, obviously... The book I'm reading at the moment is sticky and collecting gross dark grey matter as we speak... As for the rainbow, I would never buy a book to fill in a certain color (madness) but I don't agree that the way you sort your books take away from the reading in any way. I have one rainbow shelf because it looks better that way than in chaos, and no other way really makes sense for me. I'm a visual person, so if I'm looking for a book I might be more likely to remember the color of the cover than the author, so alphabetical would just be no use! Who wrote it? It's green. I do agree with "I don't like it when authors are dead" though. Although you might say they live on through their work. How annoying is this comment? ;D
The religious woman who drew some panties on the baby... For goodness sakes don't let her near an art museum or a church that has paintings of Mary with the baby Jesus and/or cherubs The Holy Weaner will suffer the wrath of the iconoclastic Sharpie!!! Not really a pet peeve but a tad annoying is when you want to finish a series and you can't get the edition that completes the set, so that book is has a different style cover and/or even a different effin size. The former I can get over, but the latter...actually that is a pet peeve after all! lol So I get where you are coming from when publishers waste money on graphic design by revamping their identity. Penguin books have a lot of history with the colour orange, so it's weird to me they should drop it.
What is bugging the $4!+ out of you? Leave a comment and let me know. 😎📚👍
“We should just go to their living room and take a sh*t” omg made my day this was hilarious.
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"Victoria isn't a newt!" is my new go-to argument ender.
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"...complaining is my favorite past time." 🤣🤣🤣 That Thriftbooks sticker!!!
LMAO right on about the living room punishment for library book vandals
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Ohhhh the movie sticker! I mean, just STOP with that publishers!!! 😊💙
…and on “Emma,” of all books. 🙄
Gah! Movie stickers! And I did not like that Emma movie so even worse. 😂
Oh man, the movie stickers drive me nuts! Also the rewrites and modernizing of classics really annoy and sadden me. I agree with you. Open a discussion if it bothers you, don't ruin it for everyone else not offended by it.
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Oh, my stars 🌟!!! This is hilarious 😂😂😂 I love your honesty.
I think it's hilarious that this is how most people are being introduced to my channel. 🤣
This is such a fun tag idea!! And I honestly can't argue with most if not all of your points. 😂
Thank you! 🙏
What a fun bookish tag, will have to do it in the future.
I have watched this tag 3-4 times...you are the first to really sell the annoyance factor!🙂
Also, if I watch it on 2X speed, it adds to the fun! Thanks for the fun! And you are NOT wrong on most of these things!
Ah haha! 😂
I heard about the Roald Dahl rewrites too. I believe that the UK publishers are the ones that greenlit the major changes and the US ones refused. I could be wrong though. 😅 Either way I’m with you on how wrong it is to change art to make it pc. The whole point of art is to make us assess and question our understanding of the world around us and our place in it. You can’t do a lot of self-reflection in a completely sterilized environment.
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10/10 BRAVO. Don't get me started on tv and movie sticker tie ins, hideous! And as for rainbow shelves NOOOOOOO . Also people that call themselves book reviewers that don't actually review. Have an opinion.
Oh.... and people that apologise all the time and get super defensive for buying books.....duh..................and breathe.
***breathe***
I loved this video so much! I could literally talk for hours about the McNally Editions! I still lose sleep over that design change.
It was good while it lasted. 😎📚
Laughing about the Thriftbooks sticker. 😂That sticker is annoying! It is so hard to get off of the spine! If I am putting it on a shelf I definitely find a way to get it off(a tiny dab of Goo Be Gone). However, I buy a lot that go in bins for my kids(usually for educational purposes) and sometimes those suckers stay put!
Goo Be Gone is a lifesaver.
You crack me up! 😂 I definitely agree with you about sprayed edges no longer feeling special… seems like they’re everywhere now!
Yeah, sadly it has turned into a cash grab. 😕
I don't always peel the sticker from the spine for fear that will tear the book.
I get that. Earlier, someone revealed in the comments that the secret to removing them is exposing is briefly warming the stickers with a hair dryer.
I have used a hair dryer on low setting before as well as a product known as goo be gone.
@@krzysamm7095 Yes! I swear by Goo Be Gone. 😎📚👍
I think you should collect the books marked by the religious lady.
This was hilarious! And we’re SO with you on the color-coded bookshelves 🤢 Thank you so much for the shout out, too! We have the booktube newbie tag going up next, and then we’re doing this one!
-Billy and Noelle
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This tag is hilarious 😂 Thanks for sharing, I basically agree with everything you said 😊
Thanks for watching! 😎📚👍
Great tag! Really enjoyed your answers
Thanks for watching! 😎📚👍
Brilliant responses. I’m loving this tag. Such fun responses from loads of people 😊
Thanks for watching. I’m getting a kick out of watching everyone’s responses as well. 🙏🙏🙏
This is a very amusing tag! I really enjoyed watching this!
Thanks! 🙏
I thought you were nitpicky about the cover style changing, until I remembered my Signet paperback Shakespeare collection, and how the spines have changed over the years -- the circle S has changed several times, and sometimes there's a black band, and one book has a black oval with Signet Classic inside, but the author is listed as just "Shakespeare" instead of the full name. They did keep more-or-less the same fonts for title (block) and author (italic). Big whoop, I know, but it's a lot of books and it looks funny on the shelf. We have one little library box in front of some townhouses, and I've never seen anyone go near it, or any interesting books in it either. It stands, untouched, and I may have to make a project of it.
I completely get it - you want a set of books to look like a MATCHING set of books.
It would be great if you took on the Little Free Library as a project. Good luck!
Might as well take charge -- I'm planning on moving in a year or so and need to thin my shelves.
One of my biggest annoyances is covers that are not uniform especially at the spine. Also some books that have a cover nearly the same as all the others in the series. e.g six books and the covers are perfectly uniform but the character is facing a slightly different direction to the point its hard to know what book is in what order or if its already been purchased or forgotten.
I hear ya. Gggggrrrr…
@@mildrumpus I am now watching your Girl Scout Cookie Tag. Love how you outlaid your channel and I think in this channel I will do Tags that are appropriate for middle grade readers. Thanks friend I am enjoying your channel.😀
@@hypersanitybooks4-kids Place & Time is another good one.
This was hilarious. I don’t even know where to begin! Excellent version … and remember Victoria is not a newt!
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Oh fabulous! This is definitely a perfect tag for you!
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How I laughed. This is my new favourite of your videos so far. And I agree with everything you said.
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Great answers! I agree, I hate when they change books to take things out they don't like.
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This was a fantastic rant! 😂
Your feelings about Jennette McCurdy’s book are similar to my feelings about Britney Spears’ book. Do I even need to read it anymore? (I’ve also recently discovered the Celebrity Memoir Book Club podcast, which is delightfully snarky. I may not care if they spoil it for me.)
I'll have to check it out! Thanks for watching. 😎📚👍
Completely agree with every point!!
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This was just brilliant! Thank you so much for this delightful tag video. I'm hysterical watching you. You made my night!😂
Ah haha! Thanks. 🙏
@@mildrumpus”Jenna Bush, no one wants to read with you!” I screamed with laughter! 😂
I just knew this tag would be up your alley! One thing I've realized watching these videos is that deckled edges may be divisive, but the rainbow bookshelves seem to be a unanimous thumbs down!
Thanks for the tag!
My greatest annoyance is when the website says the book is in such and such store and when I go there it's not there.
Argh!
😂 Keep on complaining.
What annoys me about the ThriftBooks stickers is that removing them often takes sometimes off the underlying cover too. 😡
I LOVE the way you have your books organized. Someday I’ll have a similar set up. Thanks for watching! 😎📚👍
@@mildrumpus Thanks. I blame that whole set up from my job in the 80s working for Crown Books.
This tag is too good 😂
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Love this. I agree with so much. Instant sub!! Look forward to more from you.
Thanks for watching! 😎📚👍
This was a wild ride! 😅 I enjoyed listening to your annoyances. I will admit to having rainbow shelves and I will die on that hill. I never have issues finding my books and I love how it looks. 😅
You do you! Live your best life. 😁
You must really love my chaotic shelves, lol!! 😂
I do, actually. What can I say? I’m a Gemini. 🫠
Those printed on stickers are the work of satan 🤦🏻♀️
Truth. 😎📚👍
They are!
Oh my goodness the stickers!!😢
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This is my first video of yours that I have watched and I had a ball watching this video! I may be inclined to either film this myself or film something with the other Gladiators. We will have to see. I, too, am in agreement that a great cover scheme is very enticing when it comes to garnering my attention. In particular, I like simple covers, such as the Stephen King Signet editions, the Hermann Hesse Picador editions, and many of Heinrich Boll's books have nice covers. Barnes & Noble Classics has good covers as well, but I wish they would publish more books, because I feel that they have reached their limit. If you ran out of classics, go find some more, because they are out there! Spoilers do annoy me, but I do my best to tolerate them. One of my English instructors spoiled the ending to Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina in the same class. I was slightly spoiled by the ending to Gone Girl between an episode of Jeopardy! and a television special gave me an idea as to the circumstance as hand in which a woman ran away from her husband and daughter. I keep thinking it was an episode of 20/20. I am more of a bookstore person, but anytime someone annotates a book and it ends up being for sale or borrowing, it annoys me. I buy books to read myself. If I wanted an annotated version, I would look for an annotated version. I can only imagine what Little Free Librarys can warrant. The woman who censored the book is entertaining in her own right, but I would still find it annoying. I remember reading Stephen King novels in 8th grade and the teachers had to censor out the inappropriate words and text. I agree 110% about book club stamps on books. My copy of The Reader has the Oprah "O," because it was a selection for Oprah's Book Club. I took a piece of index card and taped over it and because the book was white, it blended in perfectly. I do not care about book club stamps! I am not fond of movie tie-in books either. Novellas in short story collections? I do not really care. Many of them engage in this method. Richard Matheson did this with I Am Legend and The Shrinking Man, but they headlined the collection. Stephen King inserted The Mist into Skeleton Crew. Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis is frequently utilized this way, but I label it as a short story or novelette anyway. Yep, characters decisions get pretty annoying, but it would take too long to list them. I organize my books in a way that sorts out the genre, the writer, and their books roughly in chronological order in which they were written. I have my own methods, other have theirs, but I definitely feel that the reading experience takes priority over the visual experience. Thank you for sharing! -Josh
Josh, you HAVE to make the video!!! Thanks for watching. Glad you found me. 😎📚👍
I will keep it in mind for our next Free for All of miscellaneous content!
Just wonderful!
Ha! Thanks. 🙏
By the way, I just received five packages from Thrift Books tonight. Just want you to know I’m sitting here scratching all the white labels off of the spines!😊
You are doing the Lord’s work.
If you use a hair dryer in the label for just a couple of minutes, it will peel right off.
@@gaildoughty6799 That’s a great tip. 😎📚👍
I knew you'd kill this tag.
Thanks for tagging me!
Oh yep. Matching books, colour arrangements of books - not a reader.
Collect books for their cover only and their sprayed edges - not a reader.
Books are brand new as never handled, never dropped, never coffeed or snacked on, never opened- not a reader.
Book shelves super neat - not a reader. Messy shelves are readers, those books are used. Not harmed, used.
Keep them slighty loose. Not too many in a row. No more than 3 on a vertical stack. Never get from bookshelf by the top. Basic book care is evident by shelves, and if the owner is a reader.
Books carefully stacked many high on top of each other - not a reader and worse, a book killer.
So many people have books, so few read. They're a decor item now, just see the lairy 'haul' books in unboxings - solely judged by the cover.
That's my complaint of the day. Your complaints much better, enjoyed thank you.
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Oh, goodness, The Giving Tree! I have not seen your video on it. But I hated that book! I guess because I only read it after I was well into adulthood. It was SO DEPRESSING and awful!
Girl Scout Cookie Tag. Check it out. I disdain that book.
This was fab!
Thank you! 😎📚👍
Very entertaining! I definitely agree witht the printed stickers, whatever they advertse, just let the book be a book. Design a good cover if you want to market it. Book store stickers that leave residue is another pet peeve, obviously... The book I'm reading at the moment is sticky and collecting gross dark grey matter as we speak... As for the rainbow, I would never buy a book to fill in a certain color (madness) but I don't agree that the way you sort your books take away from the reading in any way. I have one rainbow shelf because it looks better that way than in chaos, and no other way really makes sense for me. I'm a visual person, so if I'm looking for a book I might be more likely to remember the color of the cover than the author, so alphabetical would just be no use! Who wrote it? It's green. I do agree with "I don't like it when authors are dead" though. Although you might say they live on through their work. How annoying is this comment? ;D
Not annoying at all. You do you! As for the sticky residue, I have found that Goo Be Gone is pretty good at taking it off without damaging the books.
@@mildrumpus Thanks for the tip! I’m not sure that’s available in Sweden but if I see any I’ll give it a try :)
Ok destroying that Mark Ryden like that...I'm so upset.
Right?!! 🤬
😂😂😂 thank you for this
Thank you for watching! 😎📚👍
The rainbow color coordination bothers me, I try not to judge but I end up tuning out on the reviewer cause I drift back to the bookshelf. 🤦🏻♀️
The religious woman who drew some panties on the baby...
For goodness sakes don't let her near an art museum or a church that has paintings of Mary with the baby Jesus and/or cherubs
The Holy Weaner will suffer the wrath of the iconoclastic Sharpie!!!
Not really a pet peeve but a tad annoying is when you want to finish a series and you can't get the edition that completes the set, so that book is has a different style cover and/or even a different effin size. The former I can get over, but the latter...actually that is a pet peeve after all! lol
So I get where you are coming from when publishers waste money on graphic design by revamping their identity.
Penguin books have a lot of history with the colour orange, so it's weird to me they should drop it.
Yes, very strange choice for Penguin to drop the orange in their design. Thanks for watching! 😎📚👍
What do you think of Spine Breaking of books. I can’t do it.
I know that there is a popular BookTube video out about it now. I couldn't bare to watch it. I do everything that I can not to break a spine. 🫣
For the algorithm.
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