I'm just about to send off my application after enquiring in-store and finding a vacancy. I was psyching myself out a bit as to whether I was well-read enough to apply, but your video has put me more at ease about the whole thing :) Thank you for sharing your experience and advice!

OMG,Hi Anna Talks, am so greatful for your video.😞it was just yesterday i went to waterstones and i was told by one of the staff members they have vecancy, and she made it sound so easy, i was over the moon. so i applied. but i found today that i was rejected. and i cried so much cause i have been after a chance to apply for waterstones for literally a year. now that i finally got the opportunaty to apply. it was a dead end. all my previous experiences have been in hospitality and retail. i am confident that i have what it takes to work in a bookstore. i am so heartbrroken honestly because in my cover letter i talked about my love for reading, from when i was a kid to now. throughout the years my reading habbits kind of fizzeled out due to personal issue. but a few years ago i got back to reading again so much so that i have more books than clothes. i study medical biology at the moment however i really wish to build carrier for my self around books. but so far my social media presence has been the closest i got to that dream. i dont understand how and why they rejected me😭😭 i really dont want to give up . am sorry this is the longest comment in the history but i didnt know who to talk to about this😓.

What a terrific haul! That issue of "Bat Habitat" is one of my favorite zines of all time; I'm so glad you loved it, too. 💓

going to my first zine fest in a couple weeks so in order to calm my ridiculously high anticipation, i’m watching fantastic videos about other people going! i loved this and the little anecdotes included throughout. great haul as well :)

What if you already asked them over email and they said no? Should i go in and ask again?

This video was so wholesome! Congratulations! I looks really cool.

Wow. This video was extremely helpful. I cannot emphasise this enough.

Zines are the lifeblood of DIY publication. I taught a class last summer to middle schoolers at the Portland Art Museum and I love the amount of variation in zines. Looks like you had a great haul! Thanks for sharing!

awe i don't normally leave comments but i just discovered your channel, i hope you make more videos talking about zines and making them again in the near future! your aura is so calming and your voice is so nice, the way you talk about other people's work is also really sweet, i enjoyed my time watching this

Thank you A LOT! I previously published my comics in a book form but it is just too expensive, but I want to continue to make my short story/comics. I stopped because I got dejected over the costs. This inspires me (with resources) to do it IN SMALL DOSES! Thanks a ton, from the United States!

Anna this was so wonderful I'm so new to this world learned a lot from you

Amazing

Really great content, love your enthusiasm and passion. But maybe it's because i am a bit older...well quite a lot older than you, I come from an age where the punk zines of the time were seriously hand made/ DIY products, and I always think of " Zines" on like you said old newspaper type paper stock, certainly a matt finish?! That's just my personal opinion! Otherwise really well done!

Next week I'm having an interview for a bookshop, I'm really nervous but I think your video helped me to feel a little bit more confident and ready, thanks!

I've just ordered Brainscan 33 and 34 thanks to you! I made sure to let them know in my checkout notes.

We miss you :(

I know this is off topic, I’m sorry, but I’d really love to know, what’s the name of that blue nail polish?

I totally agree that 'doing something with your hands' is a great solution to doom scrolling and getting out of your head. Totally a way to calm people! I'm a writer usually, but recently I've been very invested in zines - which I find very meditative

your enthousiasm is contagious ! 😄 congrats ! your zine is awesome ! I want to make one too 😊

Im sorry but a dissertation is also brand new too. My course was social humanities and for the dissertation we had to come up with an whole new concept with new reasoning that had never been done before. We could regurgitate infirmation but it had to be original. Zines are not new either in their concept. Both have to be original. I'm not against zines btw. Im an anarcho punk n create zines myself. My dissertation was also on how the law is created to keep the poor suppressed and the rich protected.

You get an A from me...excellent work

I have an interview with Waterstones tomorrow! really hoping I get it, this is literally my dream job...

Oh wow even your avatar is styled like how we grew up ?

why is your Generation styled like how our Generation grew up ?

Wait, wait, @12:26 did u just say “i never made a zine before, so I didn’t really know how to do it” so u decided to just host a zine workshop. Hahaha, you’re the best!

I enjoyed this video even though I may not ever work in a bookshop...I shop in them almost weekly!

Love the finished product. Where did you get it printed?

Recently discovered Zines. Now I’m obsessed. So many avenues to explore. Great video and congrats!

I’m doing a zine workshop with youth at a trans* affirming conference this weekend, and this video showed up in my feed… so grateful for the tip about plants and music because I have time to add them!

you are amazines! Sincere, enthusiastic, genuine. I love this video, thank you for working so hard to make this. I am inspired 😊😊😊

8:56 See the issue here is my friends do not read books whatsoever so I'd be in rather an awkward situation here 🤣

Thank you so much this video alone has made me more confident to get my dream job!

Hey Anna it’s a year late and your video could still help an individual who is located an ocean away from you. I stay in South Africa started working in this Rainbow book shop. I just started today and after work I was just clouded with to many information on different book, different authors and other things about the work. Went through KZbin trying to learn if there’d be any lessons on my situation, and I have to say I am so lucky that I came across your video at first site. It’s perfectly sums up everything. Thanks your and have a blessed day❤

I’m trying to get a job at the independent mom and pop bookshop that recently opened up near my house and this video helped a lot, thank you!

thank you anna, im applying to copperfields currently and i hugely appreciate this!

I really wanna get a drawing of me and my bf in a heartstopper design/aesthetic

ive made a couple zines lately, super fun and a very accessible way to do art

Wow, I loved this video! Thank you!!

I also love love your energy!!!

I love this so much. I loved the process, and your thought process as well!

I’m in the US but hoping to get a job at a smaller book store or somewhere like barnes & noble or half priced books. I have social anxiety and autism so I’m hoping the environment will help me bring me out of my shell and get experience? What are your thoughts? Do you think the environment is too fast paced for someone like me? 😓 I’m 22 so my social anxiety is much more manageable than it used to be..

This video was so well made and I really loved watching it! I strongly agree with all you said in the video and believe that shows like Heartstopper are so important. Watching Heartstopper for the first time made me cry a lot because it was so validating for me - it was watching it that finally made me feel really comfortable to express and talk about my queerness openly :)

I work at a beautiful new library and people walk in every day saying: 'I want to work here!' That's lovely, but it's a Union job, so it's three years picking up casual shifts at the minimum to apply for a posting, and you need your info tech cert. (2 years). I wish it was easier...

I agree with you in everything, I'm 16 and I'm really happy that I can see more and more queer characters in media, Heartstopper really has that bubblegum almost 'too happy' feeling, but I loved that, I needed this positive show. I figured out my sexuality 3 years ago, I hated myself but some shows on netflix, the internet and my friend group helped me to accept myself, and I feel lucky to have these things as a queer teen. And one more thing I love about the show is that the cast members are really teenagers and they shown their skin mistakes, and didn't covered it with makeup, it told me that it's totally NORMAL to have pimples, and not a perfcet skin. I loved your video and your cute drawing, today I will draw my friends in a heartstopper style💙💛

hi! i have an interview at a beautiful local bookshop today! i hope it goes well, i’ll probably update this, but thanks for this video anna!

Very interesting. 😃👍

I’m so happy that I have seen the end result of the major project. I was very curious when you said about the zine in your ‘what’s in my bag’ video. It’s so interesting!

hi Anna, I discovered your channel literally yesterday because of your drawings for ruby's planner and I just wanted to say I really love it here. I watched quite a few of your videos now and I'm absolutely going to keep up with whatever you do next. your style and whole aesthetic is super cool and you seem like such a wonderful person. also I've never heard of the concept of a zine before I saw your videos on it but I am definitely gonna look into them more now. funky little booklets on niche subjects is exactly my cup of tea :) I hope you have a nice day 🌈

hi ana ! I hope you are feeling well , I want to say thank to you because this video was so marvelous so magical so TRUE about everything has around book selling, bookshops and booksellers ❤️ While I was hearing you I was in tears of happiness, because I don’t know hahaha I cannot put in words what I was feeling… but I am sure that one of my dreams is to get hire in the moat beautiful bookshop here in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Ateneo Grand Splendid) I hope that dream come true someday ❤️❤️ have a wonderful day

So cool, Anna! I would be interested in a zine review video in future! Also, I never read any zines, but because of your videos thay have came to my attention and now I am very interesting to check some out myself!