why you should OWN books // reasons to read

what's a book you have on your shelf, and what's it remind you of?
check out the rest of the reasons to read here: • reasons to read
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if you're interested in any of the books referenced and want to pick up a copy for yourself, here are some links! (I'm not affiliated with thriftbooks, although with how often I buy from them maybe I should be):
-Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott: www.thriftbooks.com/w/bird-by...
-Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon: www.thriftbooks.com/w/steal-l...
-Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-emp...
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason: www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-ric...
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timestamps:
0:00 a hot take
2:38 a book & memories
3:55 unread books & physical space
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[@vrindabansal6196]

This is actually why i love to rearrange my book shelves every few months, cause i can just sit there in the middle of my books and be reminded of everything i felt while reading them ❤.

[@timdemoss]

what a fun experience! physical triggers like that are just the best

[@airsicklowlander7756]

They haven’t figured out a way to put unskippable ads in books yet and thats why they’ll always be superior.

[@timdemoss]

don’t jinx it - if they start doing that I’ll be so sad. (love the stormlight reference)

[@plundbohm]

Books are movies in my mind.

[@timdemoss]

I do love how books (and some other non visual media) make you contribute creatively. you get to make the pictures. thanks for watching!

[@GingerSadClaps69]

Hell yeah 🦅🦅🔥🦅🦅🔥

[@Goolop77]

Just passed an old collection of the Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis. My first thought was that my boyfriend’s dad gave them to me. He said he read the series two times over: once when he was in college, and once when he had his first kid (my boyfriend’s older brother) and read them to him every night when he was a toddler, eventually reading through the entire series. He gave them to me because he doesn’t read much anymore which makes me a little sad, but I’m still really grateful for them. What memories they possess! Also a little part of me hopes I can read them with my future kids at bedtime too haha.

[@timdemoss]

Those stories have stuck with me a long time. It might be time for a reread. Thank you for sharing!

[@BANGProductionz]

I walked past my bookshelf and honestly found more books that I had either never read or got part way through and never finished! It disappointed me to see. But. There is one book off my shelf and on my coffee table. It is The Little Prince. My friend got it for me and it reminds me of his kindness. It was also a favorite of Mr. Rogers. I haven’t gotten too far in it, maybe page 30. It has a quote in it that says “what is essential is invisible to the eye”. Id like to remind myself about it more often so, I hope to read it so that I might remember it more. Can’t cook with what’s not in the kitchen after all!

[@timdemoss]

so glad to hear! my shelf has a very large amount of unread or unfinished books - I had a few examples of them in the original recording of this video but cut them for time. but you’re certainly not alone :) thanks for sharing!

[@hammerbeam]

I love movies, books, and music, and I own a high amount of all. I own almost two hundred films. I don't even know how many books I own, and I have about 50 records. I love all three mediums. Movies are probably the most engaging. It blends so many different art forms together. Movies can have wonderful visuals, a stunning soundtrack, great story, good characters, beautiful costume design or architecture, etc. But I like that books and music take up eras in your life. I can pull a book out and think about the couple of weeks or month it took me to read and where I was and what I was doing when I read that book. Same with music, I can think about all the places I listened to that album or when I first heard it. Movies are brilliant, and I definitely enjoy rewatching them but they don't remind me of specific periods of time in my life like books and music do.

[@timdemoss]

reminding you of the era you were in when you first encountered it…I do love that about art. Thank you for sharing!

[@sitka0516]

you’ve put into words why i feel so strange about leaving my books in storage for the summer. i know it’s more practical to leave them at university and im sure as hell not moving them thrice a year but I MISS THEM!

[@timdemoss]

college is a strange time for that with all the moving! Don’t worry, someday they’ll be on a nice shelf where you can see them all the time. thanks for watching!

[@tessademoss7665]

i walked past and saw never let me go by kazuo ishiguro and remembered that this institution in the book raises kids to harvest their organs and i wrote a paper on it and then accidentally left my own “this is crazy they’re crazy no cap” comments on the last page for my honors professor to see and write “what.” also it’s such a sad book now i want to read it again thanks tim

[@timdemoss]

that is a CRAZY premise. love that you left that comment in there. welcome tessa

[@braden8924]

I just got a new bookshelf for my room and you perfectly articulated why I love to walk into my room and see all my books on display at once. But I love what you said about the unread books showing what you care about. (Also your video reminded me that someone recommended Bird by Bird to me a while back, so I'm gonna read that now).

[@timdemoss]

wonderful! thanks for sharing. & congrats on the new shelf :)

[@samdamada9932]

I just saw a French book in my shelf and reminded me that I wanna learn french

[@timdemoss]

I ordered The Little Prince in Portuguese in hopes that I would learn. Now it just stands on my shelf as a monument to my shame :P

[@samdamada9932]

@@timdemoss Portuguese (Brazilian) is my first language, it can be actually pretty difficult to learn. But if you start there (with children's book) I think you can catch pretty easy, if you already learned some other language

[@timdemoss]

oh boy I will try … but I’ve never had much luck. So much respect for you guys who know multiple languages 🫡

[@davidmiller5823]

A western written by my grandpa! I think I have the only copy. I remember reading through it and recognizing a style so distinctly his that I could almost hear him narrating it. When he got that copy printed a crucial detail was left out towards the end, so he wrote it in the margins using pen. Seeing it made me want to spend more time with him. I also noticed the lack of fiction on my shelves. Apart from that book, The Catcher in the Rye was the only other fiction. I'm going off to college over this summer and I'm tempted to bring my books, not to reread but to serve as reminders of life lived! Also seriously this content is incredible. Short and effective, it just makes me want to read. 11/10

[@timdemoss]

make another copy of that book if you have the chance! keep it safe :) thanks for watching!

[@lemon-lime-sillies]

i saw “the Martian” by Andy weir and it reminded me of how much I needed the humor that book provided to me amidst a loss unlike one I’d ever experienced before. and it reminded me of escaping into a world where someone else felt alone, but they found their way out, just as I could.

[@timdemoss]

saw the movie, never read the book. sounds like it would be a great read :) thanks for watching!

[@sasha_nivar]

I loved this thank you for making this video! I love my library and I never thought of it like this but I always felt this! i print some of my books sometimes but there is somethings but I love physical books for the reminder!

[@timdemoss]

thanks for watching & for the encouragement! :)

[@browsevoltaire]

Great video, passed by psychocybernetics and reread my annotations

[@timdemoss]

thank you! psychocybernetics is a wild title and I’m assuming the whole book would go over my head (if it’s nonfiction). also good reminder on annotations - I really need to start doing that with more books so I can remember what the heck is inside them

[@browsevoltaire]

@@timdemoss Just got into reading a book a month for this year, like a resolution. Psychocybernetics is really a big title for no reason. Its the original “get your mind right” book. Any book on the subject pulls from it. Very easy calm read, I enjoyed it.

[@timdemoss]

@@browsevoltaire oh delightful. just added it to my thriftbooks cart. looks a lot less like the science textbook I'd assumed it was. how has your reading resolution gone? what books have you been tackling?

[@browsevoltaire]

@@timdemoss So far I’ve gotten a book in every month since January. Communions by Lehrer has been my favorite.

[@timdemoss]

looking forward to the year-end list :) thanks for sharing. psychocybernetics is still in my cart waiting for my next batch thriftbooks purchase

[@Roboboy17]

I walked past my bookshelf and saw my hardcover copy of The Martian Chronicles/Golden Apples of the Sun/The Illustrated Man. It's a book I've read 1.5 times but intend to keep it forever because 1. I LOVE the poetry inside 2. It's just a really pretty looking book, and 3. Because my dad got it for me one day on a whim, and it reminds me of him whenever I see it.

[@timdemoss]

three great reasons to read right there! thanks for watching!

[@jeffbuckleysgf11]

The perks of being a wallflower was one of the books i passed It certainly reminded me of Emma Watson (weird reminder since this is basically books > movies but whatever) It reminded me of Charlie’s best friend and my own And it reminded me of my friend who is abroad and was reading this book a couple weeks ago

[@timdemoss]

ha! books are better than movies in just this one specific way - this is a safe spot for you to reference movies don’t worry :) I’ll probably tackle movie-related videos at some point in the future. hope you get the chance to reach out to your friend & say hey!

[@jeremiahhunter2331]

Books are awesome 🤩.

[@timdemoss]

😍

[@sebastianmontano9979]

I feel this way about the movies on my shelf, but yes I would say all art benefits from having some sort of physical presence. I also have books and videogames on my shelves, I would do music too if I had more money.

[@timdemoss]

The physical presence is just so helpful. Going to start getting physical movies too…do you use Blu-ray? Worth it?

[@raiden_187]

My very first novel I ever bought just arrived, It's a fantasy series called elric saga. I'm really excited to read them.

[@timdemoss]

hey have fun with it!! happy reading & welcome to the channel :)

[@samdamada9932]

I have a very big DVD shelf in my house hehe and also a bookshelf

[@timdemoss]

terrific! I feel like it’d be terrific to have both but since I don’t own any DVDs yet it seems daunting to try and start a collection…maybe someday

[@samdamada9932]

@@timdemoss I love cinema and I'm studying it right now, but I think fisical media of movies are very important to preservation too. Everyone should have some

[@timdemoss]

you’ve convinced me. maybe I’ll begin :) I’ll make a shortlist of the films I want to preserve and maybe slowly start from there

[@samdamada9932]

I just realized that this video still have 127 views, I`m really glad that youtube recommended it to me

[@timdemoss]

me too! I’m just starting but I’ve got a list of maybe 20 more ideas so we’ll see how far I get before I run out of steam. glad to have you on board

[@BrittanyBaas-zr1ne]

I just saw The Count of Monte Cristo on my bookshelf! I remembered 1. eating monte cristo sandwiches while discussing the book in book club earlier this year 2. that I still need to finish reading it haha oops and 3. my husband because it's his favorite book :)

[@timdemoss]

thank you dear...three very good memories :)

[@hugoantunesartwithblender]

Great video, altought for me the reason books are superior to movies is because fiction books are a lot more imersive

[@timdemoss]

totally agree that a book can immerse you in a completely different way. although (and I tried to walk this line pretty carefully here) they're just different art forms at the end of the day, with their own uses. it's why the thumbnail has an * on it :) movies have the visual aid that books can't get and books can tackle introspection way better, plus they can go on for a lot longer and still find an audience. thanks for watching!

[@hugoantunesartwithblender]

@@timdemoss i think the immersion depends. For mez even the environment is immersive, because i create it, almost automactly even witouth environmental descriptions of the book. Not that im special, but it was a habit 😅

[@cvbncvbncvbn2]

nice youtube titles

[@timmydemoss3935]

@timmydemoss3935 0 seconds ago The books on our library shelf, as you know, are many and varied. What jumps to mind for me-without even looking at the shelf directly-are the Agatha Christie mysteries that I used to read voraciously as a teenager. What I am reminded of is the sheer enjoyment of diving into a story with all sorts of intrigue and twists & turns (especially “And Then There Were None”). The action point for me, when it comes, is to simply stop long enough to read a book for enjoyment again. A mystery would probably top the list-very likely a re-read of a Christie book I’ve long since forgotten the plot to-but anything else featuring a good story would work too. Thank you for the reminder! :)

[@timdemoss]

I’m glad I grew up with that full shelf. I think I read most of our Agatha Christie books in high school and my first few summers back from college. They’re brilliant. Good reminder for me to order some used copies to build up the shelf