i bought every book i saw strangers buying at the bookstore

[@justsomebody1171]

Fun fact: The library where I volunteer at has a rule that the shelf with returns isn't allowed to be empty because people like to browse it and look at what others have read.

[@meremeth]

My library has a 'recently returned' shelf, and I do love to browse it hehe

[@Hallmark44]

Why I always go to the discount rack of bookstores, tbh. Get to see what everyone else is reading for half the price.

[@silverrraven5349]

i love that idea, my library doesn't have that. you return the books through a chute into the back room where they are promptly reshelved in their usual place

[@JuriAmari]

That’s really smart. I wish my local library would do this

[@sarahkinsey5434]

@@silverrraven5349 My library has the chutes too but the books and stuff sit behind the desk for a bit, I assume when it gets full enough

[@themisfitcloud1771]

What a beautiful way to see through someone's eyes, reading the words they've read and perhaps be connected to one more stranger in this world.

[@jjk4754]

as much as i love reading books i know i’ll love, sometimes reading a book that you’re not sure on is a great experience, and even reading a book you are disliking is interesting too, it can really help me understand my taste in books even more

[@tmtb80]

Oh my gosh, now I just want to recommend so many books to you.

[@jjk4754]

@@tmtb80 you can never have too many recommendations

[@sn0wflake]

As a bookseller, I just find Jack so endearing in this video. Making sure to buy a book at each store (even at the start), being super nice to the cashiers, asking interesting questions, and even fixing the displays 🤧 thank you, Jack

[@user-bn1tj8dt5q]

jack back at it again with the slightly creepy booktube video ideas

[@jack_edwards]

it's a fine line between curious and weird

[@Ammara-lx6is]

@@jack_edwardshe’s on coke again!!!

[@evie2411]

​@@jack_edwards I'm new around here and have a genuine question: do you get consent from the people working at these book stores to record them and post here? Because I'd be pretty creeped out if I found out a KZbinr influencer was secretly recording me from the counter, even if my face was blurred.

[@iishayx]

I would absolutely love if you would consider starting a podcast where you just pick a book and share your thoughts and reflect about it. Something about the way you speak is so calming and I would be so motivated to finish a book just to engage with a new podcast episode. All the best!

[@jack_edwards]

a podcast........... may be coming

[@iishayx]

​@@jack_edwardsYayyy, that would be exciting!! Thank you and all the best always!!!

[@cherifa0mebellil88]

@@jack_edwards can't waiiiiiiit I love listening to you talk abt books reviewing them and sharing your HONEST opinion ... and a podcast is just a dream come true 🍀

[@scerenidee]

I ghostwrote this.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Dakota & Jack out on a bookstore crawl? The limit of chaos does not exist.

[@animeeddie2104]

Describing The Road as a 'road trip' book is WILD.

[@jack_edwards]

in my defence i haven't read it 😭😭😭😭

[@CaptainThugRdx]

​@@jack_edwardslmaoooo

[@dr.flaherty9372]

@@jack_edwardsit’s certainly a road trip book…

[@tmtb80]

While The Road is quite a trip. Sutree is the shit. Highly recommend. Many sentences are so beautiful they'll catch your breath.

[@theambitiouslawstudent4828]

I was just thinking that exactly! The amount of in depth analysis I had to do on that book for English lit coursework forever makes me remember every minute detail of this book and well jack is in for a journey with this book 😂

[@PokhrajRoy.]

List of Books 2:20 ‘Boulder’ by Eva Baltasar 2:39 ‘Permafrost’ by Eva Baltasar 7:07 ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy 9:29 ‘The Lonely Skiier’ by Hammond Innes 12:38 ‘Butter’ by Asako Yuzuki 15:32 ‘About Uncle’ by Rebecca Gisler 17:16 ‘Novelist as a Vocation’ by Haruki Murakami 19:41 ‘Greta & Valdin’ by Rebecca K Reilly

[@kaygreig656]

Plus Permafrost by Eve Baltasar about 3 mins ish

[@laraconde]

Eva*

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@laracondeEdited

[@birdyinabox]

🙏

[@dakotawarren]

my role in this video is simply to jest

[@sickboi2615]

lol

[@JamesLawner]

“Reading Books from Strangers” sounds like a Sally Rooney novel 😂

[@eword97]

The clip of you and Dakota smelling books together brought me so much joy

[@margaritacantero7768]

“I don’t judge you for your decisions so don’t judge me for mine. Buying books and reading books are two separate hobbies. Thank you very much.” Gonna write that down.

[@me1123581321]

Dakota's dress is PHENOMENAL!! ❤❤ Also, I absolutely love these "read what other people are reading" episodes. I'm so nosey, but how else are we meant to get a sense of our surroundings??

[@jerseyjhayne]

mr. jack edwards, you have ignited the bookworm in me. i have stopped reading for a while because well, digital times, i’ve preferred watching stuff instead of reading but i discovered your channel a few years ago which has made me come back reading. falling in love with something i have fallen out of love of is one of the best things in life. thank you for making me experience that

[@fw3614]

Once I read a few paragraphs of a book a woman was reading next to me on the T in Boston. When she got off I saw the distinctive cover but not the title or author. So I combed through a bookstore until I found it - Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins. That is how I discovered one of my favortite authors of my twenties.

[@Groundedsquirrel]

What a book and author to discover without knowing anything about Tom Robbins! Thanks for this, I haven’t read him in ages.

[@hebulanebula]

I have this book 📚 ❤ and I’ve done the same thing...except I never found the book... with this reminder , now, all I remember is that it was a thin green covered book. 😅

[@Groundedsquirrel]

@@hebulanebula maybe if you write a bit here about what you read someone will recognize it!

[@hebulanebula]

@@Groundedsquirrel I did look up green covers on Goodreads , and there are 621 books, but none of them look like hers. The problem is, I no longer remember any of the words . I wish I had just asked her . 🤷🏻‍♀️📚😁

[@JaydaAshlyn_]

@@hebulanebulathe perks of being a wallflower is a great thin green book

[@SleepyAE31]

14:37 I've never been to London and I don't watch a lot of book/reading channels so when I absolutely knew that I had seen Daunt Books before, it threw me for a loop trying to figure it out. Eventually, I remembered! They showed it in an episode of Who Do You Think You Are. Charles Dance's relative used to own the property and ran an art supplies store!

[@Taetaele]

I really want to see a new series where you review old classics from each country, as an Italian I would be really curious about your idea on the masterpieces of authors like Svevo, Pirandello, Verga, Primo Levi and Umberto Eco that we study at school!

[@buecherwuermin]

I had to read Primo Levi in school for my italian finals in Switzerland. His work is so good! I had to reread it in English/German though because i felt like I didn't get the nuance bc my Italian is not that good.

[@mayleennrecaj7777]

Can’t believe I am so obsessed with your videos that the algorithm decided to feed my addiction

[@samanthahackett8162]

"Buying books and reading books are two different hobbies" LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK! I've been saying this my whole life

[@az6604]

one is for the rich ones and the other isnt, simple 😭😭

[@bookthoughtswitheilish]

I love how all the bookseller's seemed really friendly/helpful everytime you asked what the previous person bought ☺

[@sambennett9769]

10:24 “lead up to a crescendo” nails on a chalkboard to a musician lol, the crescendo is the buildup itself

[@ghostlykelp]

Basically said ‘lead up to a lead up’ LOL

[@juf9055]

i thought crescendo was like the climax?

[@ghostlykelp]

@@juf9055 a crescendo in musical terms means ‘start building up’ or ‘get louder’, it’s not the word for the climax itself. I’m not sure if it has another meaning outside of music, it may do

[@maryseptihet]

12:00 - milk snake by toby buckley!! it’s a debut poetry collection from ireland and I highly recommend it !!

[@jack_edwards]

thanks for the rec!!

[@erina2600]

Aaaaa excited for you to read Greta and Valdin!! There’s one point where Greta literally hops on the bus that I get on everyday, and gets lost in a park so close to where I live which I just adored - it’s so fun seeing such familiar details in a book that’s getting very popular

[@lazedaisies]

i wish you would also included your reviews of these books in the video cos your reviews is what always sold me for the book, and not the blurbs. i trust you that much 😂 but i’m definitely adding butter to my tbr cos i love japanese lit too!

[@dorianhayes4162]

Today is Independent Bookstore day, and I’m getting ready to go out to 28 stories this weekend-this is the perfect accompaniment!

[@jasmin2186]

I tend to struggle with connecting to the characters in Japanese literary fiction often and yet those novels always have such amazing concepts! (she contemplated while adding butter to her tbr optimistically)

[@valkyrie_cain86]

I love Greta & Valdin! It got me out of a reading slump, and is my favourite read of the year so far. Would recommend drawing a map of the family relations though, as there are a lot of characters to keep track of.

[@emmeline-tyler]

The copy I read had a list of characters at the start

[@valkyrie_cain86]

Same. I've been reading in a bookclub though, and many people still found it hard to keep track with the list.

[@WithSquared]

I just bought 4 books for independent bookstore day, and I challenged myself to pick up books that I've never heard of before and based my choices only on the cover art and blurbs that interested me the most. it was fun to go in blind and come out with books I didn't know I wanted to get because I usually just go in, get what I'm looking for, and go. I might try this out at some point too, this seems fun!!

[@terri3401]

Jack buying The Road, Cut to an ad where in the background we see a DIFFERENT copy of The Road.. then later on saying “The Road by Cormac I would have bought for myself” … Sir it looks like you already did 🤣

[@ravensramen]

thats exactly what i was thinking 💀

[@matilderrr]

he has too many books at this point if hes forgetting he has them 😭😭

[@xepherM00nie13]

I knew I saw it in a past video!! Thought I was going crazy

[@dovemakes]

@@matilderrr to be fair, I have significantly fewer books than Jack and I've accidentally bought a couple doubles myself lol

[@ursaminor2052]

i think he filmed the ad in a bookstore

[@hrldn170]

Disappointing to see yet another BH sponsor on this one, with all the information coming out about how horrible they are and how they sell customer information- they literally worsen customer health. Not sure how you can continue to sell their services on your platform. If there is a contract, how long could it be? It has been months. I really wish you would reconsider this- someone struggling could take your recommendation and end up worse than before. Being an influencer comes with responsibilities- you're not responsible for anyone's mental health, but I can't imagine knowing all the public information about this company and still plugging them on your channel for potential vulnerable people to follow. This isn't just a gimmick water bottle or a mediocre online course you're selling- you're dealing with high stakes here. Selling therapy should never have been normalized. Even if you don't care about the ethics at all, I can't imagine that this is doing any good for your reputability or your public persona. I love your content but the BH sponsorships seriously make me question if you are someone I want to continue supporting.

[@MidrinaTheSerene]

How is this the first comment about BH I see? I am appalled that influencers do not do their due dilligence before saying yes to sponsors like this anyway, and now I read that it's not the first time Jack worked with them and he still goes on doing ads for them. I might not have been a subscriber for that long yet, but I guess here's another channel I have to unsub from. There are sponsors that will just be never okay, and BH is one of them - and a one time sponsorship without doing a check on what he sponsors is bad enough, but for MONTHS???? Ugh

[@hrldn170]

@@MidrinaTheSerene Yes, unfortunately they're a long time sponsor of his channel. I've been watching him for more than a year and they've been a consistent sponsor. When all the info about BH was first going viral there used to be more comments about it on his vids but to my knowledge he never acknowledged them, and people figured there's some contract he had to finish fulfilling for them. Then they stopped coming up on his vids for a while so I thought maybe he was done but this video popping up makes me doubt that he is being forced to do this under contract obligation. How long could this "contract" be, not to mention nobody knows if it even exists in the first place- it's all just benefit of the doubt that I am more and more reluctant to give him. I'm just appalled because I feel like the info about them is worth breaking contract for. I can't imagine selling their services the way he does in these vids. And the comments about BH have dwindled as well, which is disappointing. More people need to let him know this is not behavior they condone.

[@JunoNichols]

I just saw a video that says "Influencers are not your friends, they're business." Jack doesn't give a f@#£ as long as he's getting the bag just like the other influencers advertising sh!tty products/services.

[@krisdijne]

Well said!

[@halfwaytothehill2164]

Hello!!! Please listen to your community

[@para_kisa]

saw butter in the thumbnail and instantly clicked! i’m currently reading butter and it is such a unique novel, there’s gourmet, diet culture, and so many meaningful concepts in it. i’m only halfway through but i enjoy it so much!!!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

4:18 OUR GIRL GETS RECOGNISED

[@shareuhlin]

"one thing I'll never mind is my own goddamn business," LMAO relatable

[@evamatlach1986]

„Hit the road Jack“ 😅 As an Austrian who wasn‘t in London until now this bookstores are all so amazing! I have to go to London immediately! 💚

[@yvonneandbeyond]

Loved this video! I've actually just moved to New Zealand and picked up Greta and Valdin in a very cool bookshop in Wellington called Pegasus Books (They have super tall shelves and ladders! 😍). Very excited to hear your take on G&V when you've finished it! :)

[@WhoCutTheCarrot]

It’s wild how all these bookstores from different companies (other than the Book Bar) all look so similar inside and out! This is so funny. Idk if it’s a common English thing? I know in America (in California anyway) all the Barnes & Noble storefronts look very cohesive, but other book stores don’t all look like B&Ns lol

[@glovaldebenito]

Hey! An idea for a future video!! Maybe you should have one of those scratch maps and scratch all the countries you’ve read from before.. and then pick countries not scratched and make a video about books from those places!! 😊

[@matthiasgotsch8264]

jack, you give me so so much calm. You seem like the perfect guy to read in silence with and talking about the books we read afterwards. :)

[@emilyglonek7417]

13:56 I got genuine chills listening to the summary - I need to read that book!!

[@dovemakes]

If you ever make it to the Pacific Northwest usa, particularly Portland, you NEED to go to Powells! I'm literally about to head over there right now, it's the largest independent bookstore in the world. You'd love it, it's the size of an entire city block and 4 stories tall. New and used titles, rare book room, a bunch of zines and small press, a little cafe, and over a million books being sold at any given time. I love this concept, I think I'll ask the cashier while I'm there just to see what they say!

[@elliembh1726]

I saw butter in a bookstore literally just the other day and said I bet jack would like this

[@juliehughes1258]

12:03 I do that too! Fix the display. Same in grocery stores, where I face the display when I take something.

[@LC-fx2lo]

Those bookstores are so beautiful, I want to cry. I could live there. 😍😍

[@bertalorenzi4329]

so happy to see as a catalan that writing in your own language can get you this recognition from all around the world thank you!! and i also recommend you irene solà (when i sing mountains dance, my personal favorite)

[@imperatrice211]

I went to London in October and basically went through all these bookstores asking for recommendations from the booksellers for something that I wouldn't usually hear about, giving them my tastes, was so fun 😊

[@charliepearson7388]

Yay, so happy to see you got Greta and Valdin! It's such a lovely book. As a fellow New Zealander myself, it's so great to see her work getting international recognition.

[@snedadoku5038]

literally all i needed right now, i was scrolling your old vids and then *notification*

[@dollstylist041poll3]

The Road is a book you never forget. I think about it constantly

[@white_edits9439]

We need a video of you reading these books I’m so exited about what you will think of butter since I just started reading it!

[@leonnoel9501]

kinda funny that you specifically go looking for The Road at Hatchets and then there's just a different copy already behind you in the ad 5:52

[@58angieb]

'Hatchhards' of Piccadilly, London (booksellers since 1797) ,& not as Jack mistakenly said,'Hatchets' 😊

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Jack: “I’m not going to the counter and not buy anything.” Me, on a book ban: “Hehehehehe…”

[@sarahalsaeedi2600]

I absolutely love your book videos and brilliant bookish ideas! Your London tour took me on a virtual journey to some of the best places in the city, and I felt like I was right there with you. Thank you for sharing your amazing content! 🤩

[@PokhrajRoy.]

“Sounds like a dream blunt rotation..” THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A FAMILY FRIENDLY CHANNEL 😂

[@jubidrawer]

All the bookstores in London look so gorgeous!!!

[@Woman_of_Basil]

Every video of Jack and Dakota has such an infectious giddy energy to it. I’m in love with every video from this duo.

[@clr395]

Seeing as you are enjoying Eva Baltasar, another amazing Catalan writer is Irene Solà, with her "When I sing, Mountains dance"

[@eliseozarowski658]

The UK cover for Butter is SO good. I loved that book!!

[@BetteDavis19]

jack i beg of you please buy some lights for filming in your library!! ever since you moved there the videos have been pretty dark :) it's soo cute but just a tiny light might help!

[@rprjtt]

eee! as a long term fan from Aotearoa New Zealand, nothing makes me happier than seeing you hold Greta & Valdin :') it's gay and it's real and it's a bit heart wrenching and it's super funny! i've always thought you would love our poetry collections. if you ever make a trip to this side of the world and need a book tour guide, you know where to find me...!

[@fatimas8459]

I just watched the video where jack reads book from the subway and it’s really interesting seeing how he was saying bookstore there and bookshop here like unconscious Americanisation :)

[@headoverheels80]

hi jack! love that you're going to be reading a book set in NZ that's so cool! just wanted to let you know that maori is pronounced differenly to how it's spelt - it rhymes with moldy. i think there are vids on youtube that may explain it better lol but just thought i'd let you know in case you do a review for the channel! :)

[@marinaescriva-jx4ex]

Will be very interested in hearing your thoughts on Permafrost, and specifically Baltasar's racism. I read it in Catalan, and the only character of colour in the novel, a Chinese guy with two lines of dialogue, is written with all his Rs as Ls. I wonder if the English translation includes that too. Considering none of the foreign characters have a (written) accent in the book, that seemed like a bizarre choice, which my SEA partner found even more offensive than I did. Honestly never picked up another book by her. I'd recommend Irene Solà, or even better, a classic of Catalan literature, Broken Mirror by Merce Rodoreda.

[@zzrdz32]

I can't believe no one has pointed this out...

[@SynapticCleft13]

Mercè Rodoreda is amazing

[@nirali_t]

Love that you went to Bookbar! I live right next to it :)

[@RichardCharter]

Definitely would love to see more booktuber collaboration!

[@jessthomas7210]

The clip of you two sniffing the books was sooo precious

[@aaron_osborne]

I fell in love with Dakota’s content especially her journaling video recently.

[@nita182]

I'm a Catalan living in Switzerland and I've just spent a few days back home and read Permafrost. It is really really good. Can't wait to hear more about what you think about it. I just started Boulder now. It's funny that I only heard from this series because of you, because back in Catalunya Eva Baltasar is EVERYWHERE.

[@ramantinuwal1810]

Jack is so consistent. The last time he mentioned bookbar, he said the same thing.

[@melyibarra809]

Dakota and Jack!!!!!! A hit already

[@euphrasieroloson3318]

I read the Road a while ago and it CRUSHED me, I spent like 2 hours crying after finishing it and then felt vaguely grey for the next 2 days. Messed me up 5 stars, I'll never read it again lol

[@irenicgaze]

I wish your channel ends up on cable TV someday because this is a show I would watch everyday

[@XIII306]

what an unexpected collab- im here for it!

[@brelove1414]

am i insane or are the book covers in the uk infinitely better than what we have in the us?

[@nacho6438]

dakota is so funny every single frame she's in

[@jack_edwards]

i'm single-handedly trying to destroy her cool and mysterious aesthetic

[@jack_edwards]

cool and chaotic instead

[@desaravladasi2062]

@@jack_edwardsthis is literally what my best friend does to me 😔 (this is a lie i can’t stop yapping)

[@OliviaRFoley]

My fiancé (he’s from Guildford) took me to Hatchards for the first time over Christmas. It is such a gorgeous bookstore

[@imawesome.]

I don't know why, but every time you read those descriptions, it sounds like poetry

[@roon33]

I have the 'Norwegian Folk Tales' book Dakota is holding (15:02) at Daunt Books! I had a great time reading folktales from another country.

[@bestest_mensch]

I’d read Cormac McCarthy’s shopping list

[@ngairespoon]

Greta and Valdin is one of my favourite books, so cool to see the UK release happening now (the cover is so much more gorgeous than the New Zealand one and I'm jealous)!!! I hope you love it too ❤️

[@maplessence]

I prefer the New Zealand cover. & tbh, I thought the book lacked structure. Be interested to see what Jack makes of it.

[@LauraPricefitness]

Sniffing books might just be my favourite pastime, glad i am not the only one!

[@SahbaMobini23]

convinced me to go to my city’s book crawl today. this is such a fun experiment!!! and so fun to watch!!

[@inotbenobody]

The title "Permafrost" for a book about depression absolutely stopped me in my tracks wow

[@ChemicalPenguinn]

Truly there is no better way to spend a day than crawling around bookshops in London, or anywhere to be honest.

[@summerh3893]

I click so fast when I saw Greta & Valdin in the thumbnail! So excited to see Jack read a Kiwi book, especially one that I just read and absolutely loved.

[@Pazoo_underscore]

JACK AND DAKOTA CONTENT!!!! MY FAVES!! (im so late i was on my dofe im so tired)

[@Mirabelle_maier]

makes me so motivated to get out a book slump lol

[@pranjuliagarwal1264]

39 sec ago? Dammit. That's salvation.

[@jack_edwards]

thank you for being here!!

[@an33y]

Genius idea and way better thought-out idea than I thought it would be. I thought you were going into a bookstore and buying every book you see a stranger reading that you haven't read.

[@imahotmess872]

hey im a writer, and ur videos always put a smile on my face. i discovered u 2 yrs ago i think and i was already obsessed with ur channel. and ive actually read some of the book that you’ve mentioned before so thx for that! and omg ur so nice to ppl it makes me jealous! u earned a new sub!😊

[@PamsShenanigans]

that edition of The Road is so simple yet so pretty!!

[@sj_sunshine]

bookstore hopping? sign me up - the vibes are immaculate

[@acors_ca]

It's so nice when there's catalan representation in an english video. Silly little things that make one happy.

[@efkharisto]

What a crazy mix of books you've got there Jack! The only one I've read is The Road (which I loved) and the one I'm looking forward to is Butter (can't believe that it's based on a true story!)

[@kataaa94]

Omg BookBar is my favorite bookshop as well 🤗 the bartenders/booksellers are so nice and it's just lovely 😍

[@paularunslondon]

They’re so great! I love going in there just to read with a coffee. But it’s even better that if you fill up a loyalty card they donate a book to the local school. I filled up my book loyalty card last week, and will be getting my free coffee next time I stop in :)

[@JJ-rx8ym]

I love this idea. It was Independent Bookstore Day in the states yesterday. If you’d come after me, you’d have been stuck with a Bluey sticker and activity book.

[@LisaJC]

11:53 just looks like your new home bookshop

[@elodiewho]

The Road is my favourite book (the movie adaptation is also amazing)

[@larakuntschik4023]

i hope u do a part 2 wear u reed all the books and give ur opinions

[@sayuriakirayuu7944]

"It's giving Joe from You" 😭😭