Hi everyone!
My name is Frede and today, I'm gonna be doing the BookTube Watching Tag.
Everyone and their grandmother has done this tag already, but I didn't really get to sitting
down and filming it myself when it was making its rounds last month or so.
But I think the questions are really interesting and fun.
So I decided to sit down and film it after all although I have not been tagged but I
don't really care.
So this tag was originally created by Harriet Rosie and I will leave her original video
down below.
And now let's have a look at the questions.
The first question is how many channels are you subscribed to?
And for me that is 166.
But that's not exclusively BookTube, I also watch a couple of other people like people
who do artsy stuff or, I don't know, vlogging stuff that's not related to books.
But mostly it is BookTube.
Question number 2 is when do you normally watch BookTube?
And that very much changes for me.
So I have been trying recently to spend less time on my phone, especially before I go to
sleep and also right after waking up.
I actually wanna try and get into the habit of not spending the first and the last seconds
of the day on my phone.
But usually, I will watch quite a lot of BookTube in the morning actually, when I have breakfast,
when I get ready.
Sometimes I will actually also watch- or like not watch but listen to BookTube when I'm
walking around.
If I have enough mobile data I might actually do that if I'm trying to catch up on my never-ending
Watch Later list.
I also listen to a lot of BookTube when I do chores.
So when I clean the flat or when I make food or something, I will usually always have a
YouTube video on.
Which makes it a bit difficult to comment consistently which is definitely something
I need to be better at.
But every now and again I do try and pause and write a little comment and then continue
doing whatever I was doing at the moment.
But sometimes I also just sit down in the evening and knit or embroider and then watch
BookTube.
Yeah so I think those are the main times, in the morning, in the evening and when I'm
doing something like cleaning or cooking.
Question number 3 is how do you balance watching, reading, and making your own videos?
Not particularly well. [laughs]
So I think reading has the main priority for me.
Obviously you can take a book to places where you can't film or edit or watch YouTube, but
also I think it's just, you know, this is kind of why I'm here.
So I think I spend most of the time reading actually.
Then making my own videos, sometimes like right now, I'm kind of back in the swing of
things so I've been filming quite a lot.
But it does take quite a while because on top of the time that filming and editing takes,
all my videos have closed captions.
So because I do this with every video that I have, I've gotten faster over time with
captioning, but it does add a bit of the time.
I think when I watch more I film less and I think when I film more I watch less?
So I'm kind of trying to find a bit of a better balance with that right now.
I think it's been working quite alright like the past week or so.
But that's something that's really difficult for me to actually balance that.
Like as I said with the other question, I have a Watch Later list that is never empty.
It's at like 60 or something right now which is quite low for my standards but usually,
if it's not a person where I get really excited when they upload it might take one or two weeks
until I actually get to watching their videos which is quite frustrating, I'm trying
to be better at that but it hasn't been working so well so far.
Question number 4 is is there a difference in the videos you like watching and videos
you like making?
I think for me that might be individual book reviews.
I always kinda wanna do them but I always feel like I don't have enough to say.
Because the Recent Reads videos that I do, they are just five books per video so I think
usually, that gives me enough space to talk about the book.
You know, most of the time I don't feel like there's much else to say.
Or like I don't have much else to say.
But I do enjoy watching individual book reviews, even those of books that I haven't read.
So I do actually like watching individual book reviews, I just don't particularly like making them.
Question number 5 is who is the first BookTuber you subscribed to and do you still watch them?
I'm not exactly sure because I sort of discovered BookTube twice.
The first time I discovered BookTube was at the beginning of 2014, I kind of stumbled
across I think German BookTube actually.
But I didn't really like it, most people I came across were reading books I wasn't really
interested in but the format of people talking about books was kind of very interesting to me.
So at some point I think I ended up on English-language BookTube and watched some of the bigger YA
people but again, books I'm not very much interested in.
So I kind of forgot about it, about the whole BookTube thing.
And then I found it again, or I remembered it and then looked for it again in 2016 I
believe, in that summer.
And I think the first person I discovered then where I was like "Wow!
You have a very interesting reading tase and I really want to hear your opinions."
That was Jean over at Jean Bookishthoughts and I still watch her videos.
I love her videos a lot, I think she has a lot of interesting things to say.
I love her accent.
So yeah, that is actually a person that I'm still watching even almost two years after
I discovered her channel.
Question number 6 is who is the most recent BookTuber you subscribed to?
For me that is Laura over at Paperback Winter.
I subscribed to her channel last night so I think that must be the most recent subscription
of mine.
Question number 7 and question number 8 kind of go hand in hand.
Question number 7 is share an old favourite BookTuber and question number 8 is share a
new favourite.
So for the old favourite I'm going to recommend the channel by Cinzia over at Cinzia duBois.
Cinzia reads very abstract literature I would say.
Most of the time, books I've never heard of in my life and most of them also I don't think
I'm ever gonna pick up.
But it's so interesting to hear her talk about all of those books.
I think she is so intelligent, I think she has so many interesting things to say.
Every now and again she also makes sort of video essays where she explains certain academic
concepts and sometimes also in connection to a book or something.
So I really, really enjoy watching her videos and back when I first discovered her channel
I binge-watched almost all of them.
So yeah, I think Cinzia is an amazing BookTuber and a very interesting person so I would definitely
say that this is an old favourite.
And then for the new favourite question I actually found that quite difficult.
Because over the past couple of months I haven't really been looking much for new channels
to subscribe to so as I said, I did subscribe to Laura over at Paperback Winter last night,
so the past couple of days I've been trying to find a few more I guess smaller BookTubers
as well, but I haven't watched enough from them to say wow those are like my new favourites.
So I'm gonna go with someone that I've been subscribed to for a couple of months and that
is Matt over at MCS-books.
His videos similar to those of Cinzia actually I think are so intelligent.
He is so eloquent and I just really enjoy watching those videos, getting in contact
with concepts maybe I wasn't familiar with before, or just generally thoughts that I hadn't
had in my head before.
He also experiments every now and again with the way he wants to visually create his videos.
So super interesting, and I always really enjoy watching Matt's videos as well.
Question number 9 is what is one of your BookTube pet peeves?
There are a couple of things that just kind of annoy me, but I'm also a very petty person
in general.
So usually, things that annoy me about people are very tiny things that actually don't really matter.
One thing that I don't really like which I also did for a while but then I realised how
stupid I think it is is people, I'm just gonna grab a bunch of uni books mostly, when they
do their thumbnails, doing it like this.
So you don't see the spine.
Which is just so stupid.
Because when I wanna look for new channels I don't wanna click on a bunch of videos watch
them and then see if it is for me or not, I wanna be able to look at the thumbnail and
see okay, are there book spines I can read?
And judging from that, am I interested in this video?
So it's always a bit irritating when people don't do that.
Also one thing that I don't really like but that is under a certain condition and that
is background music.
I find that extremely irritating but only if it's a chatty, I'm sitting in front of
my camera and not doing much more video.
Like this one.
I think if you do montages or a voice over or something else like that, I don't mind
music, but if it's really just a person sitting in their room, talking to their camera, if
that's the case I find background music quite irritating.
I might still watch the video if it's a person or a book that I really care about,
but it does annoy me. [laughs]
Also one thing that I don't like but that's not really something that adult
book BookTubers really do is extreme excitement and yelling which a lot of YA BookTubers do.
Like I mean maybe that's fun for some people but I just find it so off-putting and so exhausting.
Like when I click on a video I don't wanna be yelled at.
I don't like this for me seeming fake over-excitement.
I find it irritating and I will usually not watch those videos.
But as I said, it's a good thing that that's something that usually only YA readers do.
So I'm on the safe site with that one.
And question number 10 is what have you learned from other BookTubers?
I think a lot.
One thing that I didn't learn from a BookTuber but from a YouTuber was captioning my videos.
So I started to watch Rikki over at Rikki Poynter sometime last year in summer and she's
deaf and she makes a lot of videos about deafness and also about captioning.
And watching her videos I thought, why are my videos not captioned?
I should change something about that.
So I think this is a big thing that I learned just a perspective.
Because it never occurred to me before that deaf people might want to watch YouTube videos.
So this isn't a BookTube person but it's still something that really influenced the way that
I make my videos.
But then also something very general I think that I learned from just watching a lot of
very different people on here, is trying not to be so tense and trying to fulfil a certain
thing that I think that I need to do.
Because so many people do so many different things.
Even if it's just a little tag video like this one, there will be so many different
answers and ways of dealing with those questions.
And I think kind of realising that and watching a lot of very different people helps me relax. [laughs]
The other day I rewatched some of my very early videos and it was really cringey
because I was so tense I think and like trying to speak perfectly.
Like while I speak and make mistakes I notice that now and it irritates me, but I just don't
really mind I think.
So what I'm trying to say here is that watching a lot of very different BookTubers and very
different approaches to a very similar basic thing has helped me relax more in my own videos.
If that makes any sense.
The last question sort of is to tag people but I actually think that everyone has done
this already.
I can't really come up with anyone who hasn't.
So if you haven't done this tag but you really want to, please consider yourself tagged,
do the video.
I think the questions are very interesting and a lot of fun, tell me if you do the video
so I can watch it.
Also one thing that I never say at the end of my videos but I kind of actually wanna
try and do that every now and again because I always forget about it, I always have my
Twitter, Instagram, and Goodreads links in the description.
So in case any of those social media places are interesting to you, do reach out to me
if you like.
I kind of every now and again forget I even have that Twitter and Instagram account because
it's not my main accounts.
But I do wanna try and use it more regularly.
So in case that's interesting to you, just putting this out there.
But yeah so I'm gonna shut up now, thank you all for watching this video and I will see
you in my next one.
Bye!
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