What is BookTube? 📚📺

[@saintdonoghue]

This was SO good! My only complaint is that it should be an hour long!

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

You get a mention as the most prolific booktuber...

[@bighardbooks770]

WTG Steve 🎉

[@MarilynMayaMendoza]

I was about to fall asleep and then I saw this gem. I love love love this video.At 70 years old, I am not the typical YA pearly white teeth Booktuber.You are well-versed on book tube. Good night

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

I don't fit into the typical booktuber stereotype either, and that is fine...

[@jeremyfee]

It's about time someone asked "What is Booktube?" I wished I would have known about this community a decade ago. I might have started much earlier. Hey that was me, in your FEEd!

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

I see your thumbnails often in my FEEd..(you post a lot). I think I was a little cocky putting out a DEFINITIVE guide when I'm a comparative newbie to Booktube....

[@LisaOfTroy]

Thanks for this video! It made me laugh especially about the part about unapologetically nerdy. Like Jeremy said below, I wish that I knew about Booktube a decade ago. It has been a wonderful, supportive community.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

I'm glad you liked the video. I felt a bit of an imposter putting the video out as I'd only been active in Booktube for about 6 months at the time. I am certainly no expert but I wanted to give a guide to those who had heard the term "BookTube" and weren't quite sure what it was.

[@BookishTexan]

This was really good. I could have used this when I got started and I’m sure it will help many who are thinking of starting a channel.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it, this required more preparation than my usual videos. 📚

[@CourtneyFerriter]

This was an excellent overview of BookTube, Jim!

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Thanks, Courtney, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 📚

[@GrammaticusBooks]

This is a great summary of Booktube Jim! Nicely done sir!

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Thank you, this is my most viewed Booktube video....

[@ScullyPop]

I love how you break this down. I mainly read works out loud.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Thanks. Reading out loud is great particularly for dramatic works.

[@attention5638]

This is really great, I wish I had seen something like this four months ago. It took me a while to actually understand what it was. Had no idea it was so huge. Thanks!😊

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Glad you liked it. Booktube is a global phenomenon, so it's not just the English speaking channels there are lots of French speaking book tubers, Spanish speaking and all the various Indian languages....

[@PaperbackJourneys]

Hey I'm a booktuber in Atlanta! You pointed right at me lol. This was a nice breakdown of Booktube.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

I live in the other Georgia, the country.

[@timetoread1795]

Lol, this was great!!! And thanks for the Invisible Cities shoutout!! WHOOHOO!!

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

I'm glad you liked it, I've been following with interest the Invisible Cities Project and have a book from Madagascar (Return to the Enchanted Island) in this month's TBR. 📚🌍

[@MargaretPinard]

Very thoughtfully balanced and cleverly phrased, Jim. Bravo :)

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

I took more time preparing this video than I usually do.

[@bighardbooks770]

This is great, Jim 🤘☘️🎉

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Thanks Allen, 📚. It's kind of cheeky me doing the DEFINITIVE guide to Booktube when I've only been posting Booktube content for 6 months....

[@PageTurnersWithKatja]

Love this video, so informative. I know most of your featured channels but there's some interesting new ones for me to check out.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

there are so many Booktube channels, if you know French or Spanish....there are plenty in those languages too...

[@cynthiasneath6372]

Great summary and explanation.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Thanks, it's a little cheeky of me, to put this out as I'm still a Booktube Newbie....

[@authoremileeharris1645]

Hello, nice to meet you! I saw your channel mentioned in a couple of channels I follow, so figured I'd better come over and take a look at your videos too :) Thank you for the informative video!

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Welcome to the channel, glad you liked the video :) 📚

[@kurikokaleidoscope]

Very brilliant and interesting.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Thank you for your kind words

[@BookBuds]

Hi there! New subscriber here! Great video ! At first I thought Book Tube was its own app. I was very confused, but now I get it lol. Thanks for this video!

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

You're welcome, it was kind of cheeky putting this video out, as I've only been putting out Booktube videos for 6 months....

[@paperbackmo]

Great video. I like how you mentioned that you don't have to fit the stereotype to be a booktuber

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Anyone can booktube... the more variety the better....

[@simplylauralee]

Thank you! So helpful!

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

I'm glad you found it helpful. I felt a bit of an imposter as I've been on Booktube less than a year, but I wanted to guide others, who might have felt as lost as me when I started.

[@sterlingreads547]

Wonderful video! I’m sure this is going to help a lot of people. 😊

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Thanks, I think my video needs more cats... 😸📗

[@sterlingreads547]

😆

[@drawyourbook876]

Oh wow, this is such a good idea for discussion!

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Glad you like it, what did I miss?

[@drawyourbook876]

@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff I don't know, it was pretty perfect. I I could add something, maybe more talk about the different communities and examples of discussions going on.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

@@drawyourbook876 Definitively need of an update, maybe after another 6 months, when I know more about the various communities.

[@livmilesparanormalromanceb6891]

gamarjoba! dzalian sasiamovnua :) tskhovrob tbilisshi? zan magaria, chemi ojakhi kartvelia!

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

I live in Tbilisi. I very been here 12 years, my wife is Georgian 🇬🇪

[@livmilesparanormalromanceb6891]

@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff that’s awesome! My husband is Georgian, great to see you on authortube :)

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

@@livmilesparanormalromanceb6891 I have a video about the pros and cons of living in Georgia: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqjRc6uurNGlpKs

[@CtinaLoves2Read]

Love this video.... Awesome

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Glad you like it...

[@knittingbooksetc.2810]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Recently I heard about Shaktember.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

That is a new one on me. The only Shakespeare I've read in the past ten years has been Macbeth and Othello, I don't often read plays.

[@knittingbooksetc.2810]

@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff I think they used to call it Shaketube, but now are calling it Shaketember. I read many of his plays several times and now I’m reading all of them, as a personal project.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

@@knittingbooksetc.2810 My literary project is to read all of Dickens novels, I read 4 last year, but I haven't picked up a single one this year. I have Little Dorrit available, but I have Anna Karenina and Mary Barton to read first... (one classic at a time)....

[@knittingbooksetc.2810]

@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff You’re doing it right. I always bite more than I can chew. Little Dorrit will be my next Dickens after I finish Our Mutual Friend. One Dickens at a time. 😂

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

@@knittingbooksetc.2810 Our Mutual Friend is one of my 😍favorites.

[@TooFondofBooksJH]

This video was great!

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Thanks, I thought it was a little cheeky of me a relatively new booktuber to have the gall to put out the "Definitive" Guide to Booktube....

[@TooFondofBooksJH]

@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff Not cheeky at all! You did some great research in preparation.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

@@TooFondofBooksJH Thanks. I hope people find it useful.

[@MargaretPinard]

40,000!??? Interesting--where'd you find that number? Hahaha, 'typical Booktuber' :P

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

The 40 000 is a guesstimate.... Which is why I say around 40 000....

[@MargaretPinard]

@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff Ah. I didn't mean to criticize, I just have no inkling how to extrapolate from what I watch... do a keyword search, filter by channel? Trying to wrap my head around 40k booktube channels is proving hard! 😝

[@General_reader]

Call me sexist, but if the thumbnail matches your description of a” general book tuber”, I automatically click do not suggest.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

I am confused by this comment. The thumbnail is just text.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Are you referring to the chapter on "stereotypical booktubers"?