![]() ![]() There’s something so geekishly natural about it, not just in terms of the new-owner’s joy of a stack of recently-purchased books but also as a reflection on just how seldom any of us ever really gets to do such a victory-dance in real life. I even like some of their shared activities – the “tags” they inflict on each other, the bookshelf-tours they sometimes take their readers on, and of course the “book hauls” they so regularly film, in which they hold their latest book- acquisitions up to the camera and talk about them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our books today comprise a small Stevereads landmark: my very first book-haul from Book Outlet!Īs some of you will know, I’m delighted to spend time watching all the enthusiastic young people (and a few old enough to know better!) over in the nerdy, inordinately friendly corner of YouTube known as “BookTube.” I love the camaraderie in the ranks of the second-tier BookTubers I watch regularly (the first-tier of BookTubers, like the first tier of all other kinds of YouTubers, is entirely populated by martinet A-holes who have $15,000 professional lighting systems, bone-deep contempt for their viewers, and not one single scrap of interest in the worth of the ‘content’ they’re making)(so I don’t watch them), and I find their unabashed enthusiasm for all things books and reading completely endearing. ![]()
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