Reorganizing My Bookcase

My most thrilling episode ever!

[@ThatReadingGuy28]

You underestimate how much bookish people love to scan other people’s bookshelves 😂

[@stretmediq]

I'm a paramedic and if I respond to a house with a lot of books it's a real temptation to not look at them while I'm taking care of the patient

[@DC.....]

@stretmediq enters house... Replace Sir I'm a Paramedic.... What's wrong Sir.. Patient: I think I'm having a heart attack Stretmeiq: Are you experiencing shooting pains in your.... Is that A Poe Patient: What.. arrgh my Heart Stretmeiq: It looks like a complete works Patient: My Heart.. I'm Dying.... Stretmeiq: Yes definitely a Complete Works Patient: I can't believe this Stretmeiq: I know.... It's such a great collection you have....

[@stevengentry9396]

Bookshelf tours and rearranging are oddly relaxing and compelling. It must be something endemic in bookish people. Like others, I'm very glad you kept your 3-volume Sherlock Holmes set pretty much where it was. Very nice video.

[@caroldewey5043]

I also was glad to see Sherlock Holmes still in pride of place. I love to see that when I watch you.

[@jvon6074]

Looking forward to the Howard shelf.

[@johannemilsom7503]

Michael, I loved this video! The Reading Guy is so right! In fact, I would love to sit in a comfy chair, with a cuppa coffee and check out your book collection! Ah, we all have dreams......🙃😊

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Thanks Johanne!

[@garylovisi357]

Thrilling and fun! Amazing and exciting! Glad you did not send Holmes away. Fun video, now let’s get a gander at the REH shelves!

[@jeremyfee]

Organizing the shelves can be so difficult! I always liked seeing the Starfleet logo there behind you. It looked nice next to the John Carter not-a-lightsaber sword.

[@Leebearify]

How elegant!! I love it

[@PaxPanic]

I was waiting on the edge of my seat until you said you weren't moving Holmes 😂 ...this is going to be another video with 20k views I bet because your shelves are iconic by now!

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

This is literally the dullest video I’ve ever done! I was just going to move everything and see if anyone noticed.

[@lavernehodge3320]

Very nice! Had to frequently stop so I could read titles and study. Really glad American Gods and Sherlock didn't go anywhere. Thought we would get to see behind those doors.

[@snowysnowyriver]

I've been looking forward to this video....and I'm not ashamed to admit it! Book people love a good bookcase rummage! 😁 Whatever you do....don't move Roger's chair!!

[@mediumjohnsilver]

That looks like a new fancy pants edition of _Appointment in Samarra_ that I haven’t seen before.

[@jameswilliamson3591]

Can't wait to see your unhaul video. I'm planning to do more unhauling myself, and hope to get some inspiration.

[@ITCamefromthePage]

I found this exciting Michael and I don't regret watching it for a second.

[@Blondie101010100]

Love all your editions. Exciting for me! 😁😁😁👏

[@nedmerrill5705]

Before: Man! What a Mess! After: Man! What an Organized Mess! 😊 I envy your some of your editions, like your _Appointment at Samarra_ and _The Spy._ You can envy my solution - ebooks!!

[@marilynmcintosh2674]

Looks great!

[@lchauk9518]

Love a good bookshelf snoop! I’m a bit confused though. In my ideal library, fiction would be shelved first by genre, then possibly sub-genre, then alphabetical by author (anthologies would go at the beginning because “A”, sorted by the name of the first editor.) Mass Market paperbacks would be separate, but in close proximity, as a slight concession to aesthetics. As it is, I have books all over the house and way too many in bankers boxes. I do have a very small shelving unit meant for DVD’s for those vintage severed unicorn head paperbacks from the 60’s and 70’s, which I have a special fondness for. So, my confusion is - what was your method for choosing and sorting the books on this shelf? Right now I’m looking at To Kill a Mockingbird sandwiched between what appears to be an anthology of ghost stories and a 2 vol bio of HP Lovecraft. Why? To me TKAM belongs with literary fiction/ American south. I could understand if they were fancy. If I had a collection of fancy books they would probably be shelved together regardless of genre. I only have one fancy book - Easton Press Ivanhoe. I found it at my mom’s house - I asked her where she got it, and she said she thought it was mine. Nope. I asked a friend who collected fancy books. Nope. Well, it’s mine now, and it sits in lonely splendor so it doesn’t make my ordinary books look even more ordinary. I just wish it was something more interesting. No disrespect to Scott, who is my first cousin many times removed, if I understand cousinship correctly. I’m looking forward to your someday video on William Hope Hodgson. I’ve only read The House on the Borderland and I couldn’t make heads or tails of it. I hope all his books aren’t like that.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

My brilliant organizing is pretty much “do these look okay together and do they fit?”

[@waltera13]

I appreciate your ironic humor about assuming other humans care about your bookshelves. We do, but you are right to assume that no one *should* 😉 I tried to record bookshelf tours a number of times during lockdown, but I was afraid I'd just look like an insane old shut in. Your wry smile tells me you've worried about it too. Which strangely, makes it OK. Then we met Steve. . .

[@anthonyvictor3034]

Ohhhhhhh! The memories you generate with this video. But what amuses me too is how is how the monsters, Lord Ganesh and the Madonna and Child face off Cthulhu…keeping him away from your books😀

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Ha! Exactly!

[@MsReadsAlot]

Yay! Arabian nights made the cut! 😍

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Of course!

[@curtjarrell9710]

I'm anxious to see the unhaul video. I need to do that with my collection. Maybe I can pick up some pointers from your actions. Have fun.

[@DDB168]

Lovecraft on every shelf - spooky. I'd take the doors off the bottom shelf. 😉

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

That would release the horrors!

[@cammobunker]

I have to admit your bookshelves exacerbate my OCD in some ways. I, myself, would be putting all the books by, say, Lovecraft together. Because reasons. That's just me though. Drives my wife nuts. I was please to see you have the Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Baring-Gould. Have that one myself, and love all the old Strand Magazine illustrations.

[@denisadellinger4543]

I don't know why, but I enjoy organization and clean out videos. Even if I've never seen any of the influencer's videos, I will watch their cleaning videos. I think it is because maybe if someone cleans, I won't have to. Never mind that it is someone else's house.

[@lulygok]

October calls for a spooky manor tour

[@bookrisingisclosed]

Love these type of videos. Enjoyed this very much. :)

[@BookBlather]

This was cool, but you know what we all really want to see is the vault.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

That would be a dangerous video to make!

[@troytradup]

Your new LOTR is very pretty. I'm glad you have retired the older edition -- its sad spine has been messing with my OCD for months now. 👀

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Ha! Yes, it has slumped horribly. The poor thing has not aged well.

[@bigaldoesbooktube1097]

Some lovely editions 🤤

[@stews9]

Great collection of books and I even gleaned one for my Wish List.

[@nyc88s]

I just discovered your channel. I am loving it and you!

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Thanks!

[@supernova1969]

Excellent video. I hope that someday you'll say something on World's Finest Comics of the 'sixties . Thanks a billion!

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I will, I promise!

[@janicecuroso1042]

Very nice, but please put the wanted picture of you and Justin back!

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I did!

[@salty-walt]

You're making me feel on the spectrum today my friend! The visual distraction of that Sherlock Holmes silhouette always sets me on edge, I use the William Hope Hodgson Nightshade set to anchor myself, and focus on your face. That is undone! I am undone! I don't know man, I live surrounded by books, and I thought your messiest shelf was probably your cleanest shelf. I thought the thing that made your shelves look disorganized was not that you had little figures, but that you had too many little figures. The Barnes & Noble faux leather editions look nice individually, but they make for a horrifying shelf - especially in the background of a video. **Sigh** I'll have to work on it. You do you.

[@jessiebaillargeon4191]

I have most of the Three musketeers I have Charles Dickens I'm debating on starting the cricket on the hearth tonight I love your collection

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Thanks!

[@zombieprincess82]

Such pretty editions. These videos can be really relaxing. It's like cleaning videos too, they can be quite helpful if I can't sleep. I'd love a rummage in those cupboards though.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I’ll be sure to put up a video of me vacuuming, just for you!

[@zombieprincess82]

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 😂 that would be delightful, thank 😴

[@paulmonahawk4921]

What fun!

[@FrankGrauJr]

Looks more tidy.

[@BookishChas]

Epic video Michael! I can’t wait for the unhaul of doom! 😂

[@wbbartlett]

You Tube has been spying on me. I rearranged one of my bookshelves yesterday & this morning this old vid pops into the recommendations. Spooooooky.

[@jamesabbiati5775]

Yup. That tickled the 'ole bookbone. Lots of great editions I'd like to get my hands on! I need to retire early so I have more time for reading. But then I'd have no extra money for buying books. The universal dilemma...

[@Creek54]

So impressive! About 80% of mine are mass market paperbacks that have been read more than once. My Game of Thrones books look like they've been dragged behind a car.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I have a few that look like that.

[@briteskin]

I feel like a failure. I have had my new shelving for weeks now and still not as organized as yours. Still have piles of books to put back in storage and still trying to find others. I'm also dealing with a dilemma of trying to decide on digest sized manga to buy. Currently have Archie Digests for at least uniformity but those are already designated to go since donate them to my great nieces and nephew in hopes I can get them into comics. I didn't manage to get their mom, dad, or aunt/uncle in to comics and hope to rectify it with this new generation. Thanks for some ideas for possible decorative additions. I need better theme stuff than my latest toy pick ups waiting to be stored. I have a buddha, praying hands, and a sphinx but could always use more.

[@nunyabizness6595]

When we in Nov-Dec, I hope the house has recessed book shelves so I don't have to do anything. All my books are different sizes so a closed bookcase like yours wouldn't work unless I laid them flat. I have paperbacks, hardback and graphic novels.

[@zlmat]

Can you please make a episode about Robert Bloch? Thank you

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

That’s a great idea.

[@Yaksh.tb07]

ohhhhhhhhh my god thats ganesh on your shelf. we consider them our mythical god according to hindu mythology here in india considered as ' vignahartha' which means he solves all of our vigna[problems]. Where did you get him? have you ever visited india ? Btw i watch your all videos[ my fav booktuber]. your book collection is so good, I am so jealous of you cause my father dont let me buy many expensive books lol.

[@ThisJustInBookTube]

It’s looking good! Well, except that you didn’t put our wanted picture back up.. 😜 Also, was kinda hoping for a time lapse of the work. Ah, well. Still looks great!

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Don’t worry, our wanted picture is back up!

[@towerjunikeka-tet1979]

Pardon me if it's too personal but what's the catch behind Madonna since you are not a religious man ? Cause im keepin' one on my bookshelf also,and im not a fan of organize religion,my nanny used to give me picture every time when i left house more than two days to keep me "protected" :)

[@katarinasvensson9801]

Love your bookcase where did you get it

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I got it at a warehouse in Oakland over twenty years ago. It doesn’t exist anymore.

[@katarinasvensson9801]

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 to bad its gorgeus and thanks for answering

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

Do we ever get to see the vault? Careful camera angles can hide the corpses and rats.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I don’t know. There are a lot of corpses and rats 🐀.

[@MagusMarquillin]

Perhaps those Robert Howard collections weren't fancy enough for your backdrop - they're quite fancy by my standards - but I really feel he needs to be beside at least one of the other Lovecraft sets since they're BFFs, and Clark Aston Smith and probably all the pulps that inspired him, or that he inspired, or were just contemporaries. That's what I go for, except I have a fantasy/Sci Fi divide, so he's near Burroughs but far from Welles - they can see each other across the room though.

[@troytradup]

Unrelated to your video (except more to put on your shelves): have you heard about the new Fantagraphics release of EC's Bradbury comics? Seems like it would be right up your alley.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

It is. Of course I’ll get it!

[@AnnNovella]

Oh those books are real??? 😂😂😂😂

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

No, of course not. It’s all CGI.

[@KARINA29534]

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 😂😂

[@leonoldfield9765]

You call that a messy bookcase?!!! 😂😂😂😂

[@jessiebaillargeon4191]

Sherlock's my favorite you have to keep him and I'm right in the middle of his story you can't get rid of Sherlock my favorite character though is John Watson

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I would never get rid of Sherlock.

[@jessiebaillargeon4191]

Oh I know you wouldn't but I would hate to see him come off the shelf that's what made me watch your videos in the first place and I keep threatening my boyfriend that I'm going to leave him for John Watson LOL I just think he's got one of the greatest personalities yes I'm well aware that he's a character in a book and not real and would actually even if he was no longer be alive today but I am crushing on that character I have to admit

[@txmatt2112]

It’s crazy but I have the exact same rhino on very top!

[@sgriffin9960]

You (choke) moved the (choke) Robert E. Howard books. 😵

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Yes, but it will be worth it when my REH shrine…. I mean bookcase is completed.

[@dylantindall5573]

Thank you for removing the photo and figurines from the frame! I found them irritatingly distractive. Nice spines, so why hide them? The figurines deserve a stage of their own. However, are we going to overlook the light reflecting from the Baring - Gold which, disrupting the light balance at center of shot, fails to contribute any information to the over all composition, but rather undermines both the sense of solidity of the Sherlock Holmes and the line of the shelf leading to the speaker? Perhaps following Holmes with darker volumes from the shelf below will solve the lighting issue while also enhancing the retreating line and thus better defining the features of our lead player.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

The features of the lead player in these videos is better off in darkness or covered by a mask. I’m afraid I put up the picture frames again just to ruin the look of everything!

[@Jbvain]

During the sneak peek inside your cabinet, I saw a couple S.A. Sidor paperbacks. Do you like the stories? They do have nice covers. But, I haven’t read them, yet. Thanks!

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I haven’t read them yet either. They do have nice covers.

[@chadm8868]

Love your content (Except the creepy smile:). This is an excellent example of why people should visit their local library. Not everyone can afford a $40.oo book. This feels like you are a book collector ahead of being a book reader. Do you think you are a collector or a reader?

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I’m both. That’s how us creepy BookTubers roll.

[@chadm8868]

Well played. I enjoy the content.

[@gregorynichols4103]

Awfully rude, Chad. Michael doesnt have a creepy smile. Try to mind your manners a bit better when someone is offering you free content like this.

[@KARINA29534]

I'm early 😘😘 i love you Micheal