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Angury

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I would be interested to hear people's thoughts on booktubers. Are you aware of the group and do you follow any booktubers on youtube?

 

For the uninitiated, booktubers are people who upload videos on Youtube about books they read, authors they are interested in, books they plan to buy/have bought as well as sharing their thoughts on upcoming books, book shops in their area, their bookshelves, and really anything bookish!

 

There are specific types of videos that booktubers post including readathons, tours of their bookshelves, book-shopping/touring bookshops, TBR videos and interviews with authors.

 

There are a wide range of booktubers out there from all over the world covering a wide range of genres. I think it's a lovely way of sharing your love of books being part of a community through such a visual and aesthetic experience. The booktubers that I currently follow include:

 

 

Looking forward to hearing everyones views and potential recommendations!

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I used to watch quite a few nice, young ladies on YouTube talk about books. I don't watch so many now. Sometimes they discontinue their channels. Sometimes they move into topics I am not so interested in. My favourite was Katie from Books and Things, who discusses Victorian literature a lot. She reads quick, she thinks quick, she speaks quick. I occasionally watch Becky M for science fiction book reviews.

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNBgyHiLdu0lVN9Hr-xTLLw (Books and Things)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwpMfAT2jtdZ2VFH56nE6bg (Becky M)

 

I have come across Ellie Dashwood recently. I am not sure she really counts as a BookTuber. She discusses subjects related to Jane Austen. She must be some sort of educator because she is so professional.

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0AnXj-FmgHRtDcFMd_kFyQ (Ellie Dashwood)

 

Another young lady whose content is amazing is Nerd Cookies. I don't think she really qualifies as a BookTuber, either because she discusses topics relating to LotR, Dune.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXYIDTytNEO3NgDVwdOKjWw

 

There are quite a few YouTubers who interesting explore topics raised in Lord of the Rings.

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I always have reservations with opinions on YouTube as there is far too much undeclared paid promotion going on. Couple that with clickbait titles and purposefully controversial videos to gain more views and it gets harder and harder to know what is genuine and what is not. It's especially bad when it comes to tech channels but the problem is spreading to all areas of the site.

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I generally found the BookTubers I followed pretty straightforward. Quite a few of them were undergraduates. Some of them work in publishing. I wondered if a big reason for starting their channels was to get into publishing, because I expect that is a difficult industry to get into. Some of them did review books they were sent. I suppose it is difficult to be brutally honest about a book when you have had contact with the author, but if they declare that they were sent the book, you can take that into account. I rarely read a book because I see it reviewed on YouTube.

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