A Rattling Good Read

Tim has a good many books in his toy collection. At first sight it may not be obvious how books fit into the 'toy' category, but Tim has found many books over the years that appeal to him, which have ended up in his collection.
He divides his books into 'hardware' - meaning that there is something unusual about the structure of the book itself, and 'software' - where the contents of the book, what is printed on the pages, is the unusual factor.

[@Seth_M-T]

0:42 "When you now hold it over a candle flame, and warm it up, it sets on fire. Remarkable."

[@wangus]

The really remarkable thing about _A Void_ is that it's a translation-from a French novel with the same restriction.

[@CannonGround]

Mr. Tim, there was a book discovered in Sweden not too long ago that you might be interested in reading about. It was hinged so that it could open 6 different ways, and depending on how it was opened it contained a different story.

[@bigchooch4434]

7:04 "100% plagiarization. What a clever idea." Try telling that to my teacher.

[@TheAzorg]

show him / her that video

[@rayanderson5797]

I feel like it was more work to do that than it would have been to just write a basic western story. That would make for quite an object lesson.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

well is it really plagiarism if it’s fully cited?

[@davidallman]

Speaking of books, I'm afraid Tim's wasting his voice on not narrating novels for audiobooks.

[@jordirapper]

Just imagine "There once was a boy who cried wolf. Heh. He played with a ball. That sounds like fun, don't you agree? I have many balls in my collection. It began in my childhood when ... And we never saw them again but it did help me get started on my collection and ... but I just ordered the thee instead. I have many thee kinds and thee cops in my collection as well when ... And that's why I like to collect books ... What was I doing? Oh yes! The book, nice."

[@stevebabcock2499]

@@jordirapper that would be more entertaining than most books by themselves

[@n00b4liciou5]

Tim should have a series of books on tape. He would never read the story inside the book, he'd just describe the book (the artwork, texture, weight, smell, contrast of soft cover and hard cover) for about 5 minutes.

[@deathhzrd]

Yes please

[@LordArikado]

I've got a book that's similar to the counting sheep book. It's called "Fifty-Thousand Shades of Grey", and it was written by the cheap tat/electronic tat/expired food reviewer Ashens. It's the phrase "Shades of Grey" repeated 50,000 times. Unfortunately it's out of print now, so good luck finding a copy for a decent price.

[@ky-gp4sz]

That's my favorite book, sadly I don't have it

[@LordArikado]

Good luck finding a copy now that it's out of print. The cheapest I've seen it going for is $50.

[@PhillySmithy]

Such a wonderful collection, I look forward to seeing more

[@StewMM]

I have Ashens '50 Thousand Shades Of Grey' It's like the sheep book but with 'Shades of grey' 50 thousand times

[@ASilentS]

I've got a book from I think the 40's where every page is cut horizontally about 3/4 of the way down. The bottom section serves as a little vocabulary book you can reference whilst independently reading the book in the top section. Another novel novel.

[@MatthewThrone]

Book from the nile.

[@bruceturnbull4219]

I used to have a book as a child called Reflections. When you reach the end of the book, you turn it upside down and the illustrations become different, then you read the book end to beginning to finish the story

[@deathhzrd]

Only Tim would have a book in a book in a book in a book

[@ZacHawkins42]

Tim should read "House of Leaves". The most mindbending work of fiction I've ever come across.

[@ArtFluids]

There should be more waterproof books

[@ghuegel]

Ipad, Kindle, or Nook in a plastic bag. Now, all the books are waterproof!

[@eoghannlamond1034]

ghuegel I dropped a book while hiking in 2010 - it went a good 1300 feet down sheer rock; I recovered the book on my way down and last re-read it just a handful of weeks ago ('Moab is my Washpot'). An iPad, Kindle or Nook would have a 50-50 chance of surviving a fall off the average dinner table.

[@MattMcConaha]

Eòghann Lamond Then don't take a Kindle up a mountain. Everything ever has strengths and weaknesses. Including paper books.

[@lordofedges6487]

ghuegel Wasn't there a problem at some point in time with stupid people thinking software updates could make their cell phones waterproof?

[@aditya95sriram]

Waterproof books: Ideal for reading while floating on the Dead Sea. leisuregrouptravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Dead-Sea-Floating1.jpg

[@ersatzwilderness]

Anyone who's a fan of Perec and Queneau is ok in my book. Brilliant collection as always Tim!

[@designanddirection]

The "What men know about women" book reminds me of a novelty record which was completely silent it was entitled: The wit and wisdom of Ronald Reagan.

[@sabastiankilgore9510]

Thanks for making such great videos guys, I have been feeling down recently and yet you guys never fail to bring a smile to my face. Much appreciated :)

[@Sim0n98]

I've seen a book called Fifty Thousand Shades of Grey. The whole book is just the phrase, "shades of grey" fifty thousand times over.

[@medicaldemoman]

Ashens?

[@Sim0n98]

yes

[@blossomtrees927]

yes! i was about to comment that. ashens is awesome.

[@rockerseven]

Simon Gallagher as i've been watching these videos, i realized tim is kinda like an older version of stuart ashen lol

[@LordArikado]

+Simon Gallagher I've actually got a copy of that. He sold them on Amazon for a few months. Good luck finding a copy for a decent price now though.

[@JoeeyTheeKangaroo]

"100% plagiarism... what a clever idea " My teacher did not agree.

[@educacaofisica4334]

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, I WOUD BE NOTHING WITHOUT THEM

[@MrLeroyFox]

I want to lay down on a cloud made from his voice...

[@flacidPillow]

It's kinda funny because it's not his voice that impresses me, but his fluency does. His eloquence goes a long way, while someone like Morgan Freeman is praised over his low voice. Though I do not doubt Freeman's eloquence.

[@MrLeroyFox]

***** But Freeman is the best of the best. Can't compare apples and oranges. :p

[@flacidPillow]

Leroy Fox They're both fruits.

[@MrLeroyFox]

***** Well to be honest I don't understand some expressions either (me too could easily compare them), but you know what I mean. ;)

[@MattDriiiver]

Anyone read House of Leaves? Amazing, if could totally fit in Tim's collection

[@tymesho]

recently stumbled onto your vids and subbed, very interesting stuff! I really like how you present them too, simple, and informative. thank you!

[@sunofslavia]

Astonishing collection of sophisticated fruits of boredom and quirkiness. I like it!

[@DougPalumbo]

Great books and another interesting video...thanks Tim!

[@WickedJ133]

I would love to see a video of music boxes, Tim has to have a billion of those.

[@trancehi]

I've got a disguised book. It's a proper old antique in the shape of a book all bound in old leather. Twisting the corner accesses the pouring spout to a hallmarked solid silver alcoholic hip flask shaped as a book and the book is called 'A Pleasant Surprise'. This is a proper old and expensive antique looking book and you wouldn't know what it was without picking it up, only to reveal something brilliant.

[@DrewskiTheLegend]

Wow

[@PumpkinHeadJim]

this channel is absolutely fantastic

[@peachygirl2374]

I can always count on tim to cheer me up

[@djsolaris979]

I want to thank you, Tim - I purchased a few of these books for myself since watching this video. I'm a book collector too! You have quite an impressive collection. :)

[@MrIshmael456]

Tim, I loved this collection. I collect and read many books, but never have thought to try to find quirky "Novel Novels". Will have to do it! :)

[@dwah1986]

I can't be the only one that's headed straight to Amazon...I love you, Tim.

[@DocFunky]

Yup, got a ton of new books on my wish list now.

[@OatmealDonk]

that "vast" book is super rare!

[@shortshotgunman5582]

4:38 That tiny book Contains Water From The NIle

[@jospantostado5406]

It contains the secrets of the water from the Nile

[@adenowirus]

A few unusual books from Poland: "A Perfect Vacuum" by Stanisław Lem is a collection of reviews of nonexistent books. Some of reviewed works are actually impossible to write. "Imaginary Magnitude" by the same author is similar, except this time it contains forewords and prefaces. "The Gates of Paradise" by Jerzy Andrzejewski is a novel set during the Children's Crusade. It's remarcable for the fact that it contains only two sentences. While the second one is rather short, the first one is extremely long. "Alea Iacta Est" by Stanisław Dróżdż is a set of six tomes together containing all 46656 possible results of rolling six six-sided dice. It exists in a single copy and is essentially a more compact version of a installation under the same title.

[@turb0u1337ka]

The book with sheeps would be better if the sheeps were disordered... Because in such variant there are actually only three numbers that we need to count: height and width of a page in sheeps and the number of pages =)

[@GoldenHay1]

Finally someone made book pages that are not out of paper.

[@wogsykirk1156]

I've just watched this whole video and thought it was brilliant. I've just had a joint too so im stoned out of my tree. These videos are awesome but when your stoned they are even better.

[@YASxYT]

I like penis in mouth

[@peterawesomeness1]

Dude me too.

[@AndreasIndustriePro]

*100% plagiarazation* *what a clever idea*

[@LordArikado]

I also had a book when I was a kid that I used to love but no longer have in my possession and can't remember the name of. It was about a bug, either a grasshopper or a cricket, and it had a cutout of him on a stand, and as you turned the pages he would pass through a hole in each one and appear on the next page. Then when you reached the end, you were supposed to take him back home by going through the book in reverse, which would put him back on the first page.

[@maxhengst2252]

I love this channel!

[@viissecretto]

Me too! It's so calming

[@tonyferber3252]

I think the salesman with the "fan" book saw you coming Mr. Rowett.

[@pcbona]

Cameraman does a great job. Very smooth filming.

[@dpeltm]

nice collection!!!

[@nick-vr1gy]

Ah, I just love Tim

[@EBProductions]

i love these longer video's

[@joannegray5138]

I once bought a book entitled "Hugh Grant's Guide to Fidelity" (published after he had his Divine encounter) and the pages were totally blank. Didn't realise that someone else had already had a similar idea.

[@GlassesnMouthplates]

The "Vast" novel sounds like one of those "Writing fiction with A.I" challenges.

[@NarutoUzumaki-jg4pw]

Quite the collection of NOVELties

[@Xaplelul]

Such a fulfilled man.

[@KHmixerX]

Brilliant.

[@warmcrunch3829]

This is my favorite

[@jonathonweeks2410]

Of course if you're interested in other novel novels, there's also the book of every color in existence: www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/09/this-book-contains-every-rgb-color-that-exists/ and the ubiquitous House of Leaves, a horror story that plays with typesetting and font and bizarre nested references and appendices to tell several strange stories (often all at once).

[@a10cgaming67]

waterproof books from the nile

[@BiancaWong]

You are a cool grandpappi!!

[@kylered1268]

How very interesting!

[@jeffcolorado]

Tim, in case you haven't heard of it, there's a book by poet Christian Bok called Eunoia. Each chapter in the book uses only one vowel, so there's an A chapter, an E chapter, and so on. The word "Eunoia" is the shortest word that uses all the vowels. The book also never uses the letter 'Y'. A very clever book that should be in your collection, if it isn't already there.

[@gimpdoctor8362]

this guy is in salespeople's dreams...

[@benjaminoechsli1941]

Thanks!

[@Optropicraft]

He should get Ashens's book, "Fifty-thousand Shades of Grey"

[@xxanimexnerdxxkelson]

"All that men know about women" I think it the most amusing out of this collection

[@jay-]

"100 plagiarization, What a clever idea!" Wish my teacher thought the same.

[@evesword4270]

I'm a FAN of that book!! Haha.... I have no friends

[@spooky1800]

(Beginning of every video) Tim: *INHALES LOUDLY*

[@viissecretto]

*SIGH*

[@whynotanyting]

At 6:30 I believe that the image has hidden text when you read it from an angle. I don't know if it does, but the way it is drawn makes it look that way.

[@thepip3599]

Neat!

[@PumpkinHeadJim]

there was a tab of LSD in the smallest book in that book safe one

[@DukesArchive]

Please help, I'm addicted to these videos...

[@YourCrazyOverlord]

+BluSpecter454 Right there in that boat with you, friend from a year ago.

[@complexity4326]

lol same

[@compmaint]

I like the part about the books...

[@PochamaRex]

A book in a book in a book in a book in another book. It's bookception.

[@YouSwellow]

Novelty novels

[@djtaitai]

I can't believe he left us wondering what was inside that little red book..

[@complexity4326]

big chungus is gonna finesse those books

[@douro20]

The waterproof book was probably made of Tyvek.

[@francescodelre1274]

"All that men know about women" All pages:EMPTY Tim:"N I C E I D E A"

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

I am thoroughly interested by this one - I would like to get into collecting these, since I have many experimental books, but none with no letter e, or the best one I think is the rewritten story in different ways. Know of any in stores now???????????????????????🏰

[@JakonDeluxe]

0:19 90 Pounds for that book?

[@d.s.parentsr6502]

I just had an idea of a flip-book of a flip-book of a flip-book of a flip-book of a flip-book.

[@evillttlimp]

What about Stuart Ashen's 50,000 Shades of Grey? That one made me giggle

[@dawnp2534]

as they say, knowledge is power

[@viissecretto]

Tim is full of it.

[@C-otter_]

There is a book called Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn that is "a progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable" which basically means that it is composed of letters sent to different characters and throughout the story Dunn stops using different letters of the alphabet.

[@AcheroniD]

Tim is adept at cooking the books and destroying the evidence Remarkable

[@mattthe1idgaf797]

Book from the nile

[@-feonix48-47]

BOOKCEPTION!!!!

[@liamrickard3783]

Book from the Nile

[@TDMFAN]

Reupload? I swear I've seen this before...

[@grandillusions]

A couple of the books have appeared in previous videos. But this is the first video Tim has done, featuring just books. And we shot it 2 days ago.

[@TDMFAN]

Ahhhh well that's cool then. Definitely recognised a few but was great to see some new additions :D

[@obmoder1]

Grand Illusions Does someone else run the channel or are you just speaking in third person?

[@tyjuji]

obmoder1 I believe it's Hendrik Ball, who runs the channel.

[@grandillusions]

Yup, that's me. George Auckland and I shoot the videos between us, and I do the editing and uploading to KZbin. I also answer the comments on KZbin! Hendrik Ball

[@chrisn8349]

Did anyone catch the name of the puzzle book at 8:00 ? The one with the mixed up story pages?

[@JonnyThrash_]

ive got a book in which as you read the story your asked to make a choice at certain points...the book then tells you what page to turn to in order to continue with the plot. of course, different choices lead to different paths or even death. kinda lets u customize your adventure

[@Mr-Trox]

+Francisco Arce Yeah, the Choose your own Adventure books used to be super popular.

[@LordArikado]

+Mr. Trox My favorite variation on that concept was the Goosebumps ones. Nothing's cooler for a young horror fan than being able to make their own Goosebumps story.

[@Seita833]

Anyone know what the Jacob's ladder book is called?

[@SleepySigh]

That folded book is fantastic! Any idea where one might find instructions?

[@grandillusions]

I don't think there are instructions anywhere. Just do it. Take a book you don't want, and make 3 or 4 folds on one of the pages. Then keep making the same folds on subsequent pages. I think you may have to unfold some of the pages, in order to finish the folding, and then maybe use tweezers or something to refold the last pages - the last ones will be a tight squeeze!

[@SleepySigh]

Thank you! I went ahead and looked up instructions for folding books. I used a book with photographs in it so the end result was colorful. Cheers for the inspiration!

[@KingOfChaos213]

SleepySigh I hope it wasn't a first edition, worth a bit of money because it won't be afterwards.

[@SleepySigh]

No, I bought it at a chain bookstore on clearance. There were many like it on sale.

[@faynEmrHater]

so what can you put in there? a book, and what's in that book? another book, and what's in that book? My Crack. what a lovely idea.

[@praveenb9048]

03:56 Any ideas about what one could do with unsuccessful e-books?

[@Charlesb88]

A recipe book you must bake first to use is called a "Cooked Book"😄

[@nicholastosoni707]

"...And this one here is a volume that I don't think is going to be a bestseller any time soon. I found this little handwritten note inside which gives the book's title as _The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey_. The text within, I can't make heads or tails of. There's a few Greek symbols here, and what I assume to be an equation of some kind, but on the other hand, there's all this clockwork."

[@BanditLeader]

He didn't say that in the video

[@nicholastosoni707]

Bandit Leader *That's the joke*

[@BanditLeader]

Nicholas Tosoni no it isnt the joke, because what you said isnt a joke

[@Mo-dz5rb]

Tim should do an asmr

[@eyesofNOTHING]

What's in the book... another book... what's in the book, a gun *bang... Wow.

[@angusjtaylor7745]

another good novelty book is 50 000 shades of grey by stuart ashen

[@viissecretto]

Grand Shades Of Grey by Tim Rowett

[@TheBuggyGal]

Pages from the nile

[@Nilguiri]

Ha! That last picture of the books pouring out of the window was in Madrid a few years ago. I saw it! It's in the Palacio de Linares, which they say is haunted. Here's a photo: www.elle.es/var/ellees/storage/images/elledeco/diseno-arquitectura/piezas-de-diseno-con-libros/palacio-de-linares/4697033-1-esl-ES/palacio-de-linares_ampliacion.jpg