 Julia and welcome back to my channel, and for today's video I'm going to be bringing you guys kind of a different kind of video today. That's not the way it goes. I am still waiting. So you've probably seen subscription box videos floating around on booktube. They are fun to watch but I've also complained. I've also mentioned in like more of a criticism on booktube that it's the amount of them per channel. Like if I'm getting six unboxings per channel. It's a little much. Just a little much in my personal opinion. But today I thought if you want to buy a subscription box I've had my first experience with the subscription box buying it myself and being sent them. I've had both those experiences now and I think subscription boxes are really fun to open. I think it's really cool. It's also great for a gift. You can just send it to someone and I think they have a lot of... there's a lot of good things about them and so I wanted to unbox three different subscription boxes and tell you guys my journal thoughts on them and what I thought of them. These these three clips are taken on separate days and I'm a mess in all of them and I was mad about school so I came home and I was like ooh boxes. So if I seem like really like mmm and then really happy that's why. So yeah let's jump right into it. So for the uppercase box. This box I really thought was really interesting. It's one of the more like it's not as expensive as some of the other boxes. I believe it retails for $23 US and plus shipping. But I think that's a really good price considering the hardcover itself. It's usually a YA hardcover. Well it's always a YA hardcover. So uppercase usually includes a YA hardcover and then some little goodies along with that come in a cute little bag and yeah. It is pretty inexpensive. It's about $23 US which is pretty good compared to some other subscription boxes out there and the thing I really liked about this one was the little goodies and how little like practical they were and they're not just like something like a keychain or whatever. Don't get me wrong I love my keychain but I thought it was really nice. This one had coffee in it. Something I'm obviously going to use. It had a notepad in it. A beautiful notepad and I believe it had something else in it and then it had the hardcover book which usually those hardcovers in Canada go for like $24 so if the box itself is $24 then it's pretty cool and it's a pretty good way to get it. And it also comes signed which is really amazing as well. I really appreciate that. I think everyone appreciates when they get a signed book. Upercase if you're looking for like not if you're looking for a more affordable subscription box. Something that's not like 20 goodies. Something that's kind of small, minimalistic, stuff like that. I think you would think really like this box. I did quite like it. My only critique would be we love love the goodies in this box. Just my only little bag. My only little con was just the book for me. I personally which this is not really even like a critique. It's just something I wanted to note. The book for me I don't typically read. High Fantasy is probably not a book I would have picked up on my own but I know it was a really popular release of that month. So I understand why it was a part of it. It's just I personally am not too interested in it and I probably wouldn't have bought it myself but now I have it. So now I'm gonna read it. But my point is it just I think it just really depends on what you like and it's probably gonna I think the majority of them come with YA fantasy new releases. They might come with contemporary as well but it's typically really popular YA new releases that come in the uppercase box. So yeah overall I really liked it. I really think the price is worth it. I think the goodies are worth it. The book I'm gonna see if there's gonna I want to check the website and see if there's any hints to know what the book is because I think that's really cool as well. If you figure out what the book is then like I think that's really beneficial especially if you own the book that comes or whatever. So yeah overall uppercase was a pretty solid box and I was sent the uppercase one actually. Next up we have the Nocturnal Readers box which this is my second time ordering from them. The box into Canadian dollars like the price plus shipping cost a lot of money for me to get here. I do think it's worth it. I think the books in here as well are books that if you bought full price they're super expensive so the fact that they come in this box is great but for for me to get this box is about $50. So will I order every month? No but I think it has a lot of benefits to it. So for the stuff in here I really love what they give you. I think you get so much stuff. I think you get a lot of variety. You get a print. You just get a lot of little knickknacks and a lot of references to horror films and books. So definitely if you're into horror specifically definitely check this out. It's not a YA box pointing that out now. Usually it comes with a hardcover and a paperback and they are usually comes with a hardcover and a paperback and I just really like that you get two books typically in this box and it comes well last last last month it came with two paperbacks and this month they came with a hardcover and a paperback and I think it's really cool and usually adult books are quite expensive especially hardcovers can retail for $35 in Canada so the fact that you get it in a box with a bunch of other stuff and an extra book is absolutely great. So I think if you want a lot of stuff and you're a big horror fan this box is so great for you and I really love this box personally so like can they send them to me for free so I don't have to spend $50 and next up here last but not least we have Page Habit which you have probably seen floating around a lot. I have a lot of friends who have affiliate links with them and who are brand ambassadors for them but basically Page Habit is a subscription box where you can choose a specific genre so you can choose YA. You can choose literary fiction or there's a few other options as well there's a romance one you just pick a box and it comes with a hardcover book that has annotations in it by the author so it has sticky notes in it that are written by the author of what they thought about at that certain point in the book or some little hints along the way or just little notes from the author while you're reading and there are certain page numbers and there are certain pages and the thing I really liked about Page Habit was you get to choose what you want so I ordered so they sent me the horror themed box for January and I did really like it I love that you got an adult horror hardcover and that retails for about 35. Page Habit I believe is a pretty decent price as well and we like that you get annotations in it I think it's really cool and I was just so excited about it I think it's really I think it's super cool that you get annotations like I like that touch and I think it's really interesting and I just think a lot of the things are really really cool and I really liked Page Habit and something that I also really liked about them was their donation I just love that every month the money you contributed some of it goes to a good cause and I think that's really cool and there's a lot of things that are exclusives to Page Habit I just really like Page Habit I was surprised about how much I liked them because I feel like everybody makes videos about them but I was really pleasantly surprised by the box that I received and I think it was really good pairing the prices for Uppercase, Page Habit and Nocturnal Readers these are all USD and I think these three boxes are really cool I think they all had their pros and cons one of them is more minimalistic simple like nice inexpensive like Uppercase's which I think is really good I also think Nocturnal Readers box is very good just they have a lot of stuff in it you get a good amount of books like I think you do get your money's worth my only comment that would be like some shipping issues which they've been emailing about a lot because like the past few months there's been some shipping issues I don't get my boxes till really late in the month and like one time I didn't get it till like early next month which was because of shipping issues but they respond to their emails they're very good with all that sort of stuff so that's what I really like about the company they're very interactive and they do address whatever's going on and yeah I don't think that's a permanent issue but I thought I'd mentioned the shipping errors that they've been having I think it's important to note page habit I really liked it I think it did take a little bit of time to get here that might be because I live in Canada I don't know but I think it's a really cool box and I think the a lot of people talk about it for good reason so definitely all these boxes were successful in my opinion if I could order one every single month just one I would probably order the page habit box and let me tell you why I think you get an annotated book you can get a YA book a horror book whatever you're feeling and you also get some goodies and a donation as well so yeah page habit was probably the winner for me in this scenario but I did enjoy all the boxes and I love all of them I didn't have any big issues with any of them just some shipping issues with nocturnal readers and page habit took a long time to get here which again could be from where I live I live in Canada though it's not like I live in the middle of nowhere and uppercase it's just I wasn't thrilled about the new release like I thought it was cool but like for my personal taste it's not exactly what I was looking for so yeah there you guys have it I hope you guys enjoyed this battle of the subscription boxes video if you want me to do a part two to this let me know with different subscription boxes that I would love to I think it's a cool video idea in my opinion hopefully you guys liked it let me know down below and what subscription box and at these three would you order which one have you ordered from what would you consider ordering from and all that sort of stuff and I'll see you all super soon with a new video bye