 Hello there! My name is Agnieszka Szarkowska, and I'm one of the co-founders of AVT Masterclass. In AVT Masterclass, we mainly focus on hands-on practical exercises, but I know a lot of you are interested in actually reading something more. We get a lot of questions from different students, from different people, where I can read more about subtitles. So in this video, I'm going to show you the most important books on subtitling in English. There might be other books out there that are not in English, and I'm not going to focus on them today. So let's start with the oldest book that's simply called Subtitling. The first edition was written by Jan Iverson himself and the ultimate, the final version of the book. The newest, you could say, version is written together with Mary Carroll. Both Jan Iverson and Mary Carroll are recipients of the Jan Iverson Award, given by Isis. This book is dated from 1998, so in many respects you may think it's not really up to date. But I would say it contains a lot of issues that are still valid today. Pros and cons of dubbing and subtitling, of course. Some fundamental principles of subtitling, such as reading speed, text compensation, as well as accuracy and the need for quality control. They also talk about line breaks, synchronization, punctuation, other conventions, and the last chapter on equipment and tools might indeed not be very useful nowadays. But definitely a book worth looking into. Now, let's move on to what I often call the Bible of subtitling. Actually, I have two of them now because this is the first edition. It's called Ojivisual Translation Subtitling by Jorge Diaz-Cindas and Aline Remal. By the way, they are also recipients of the Jan Iverson Award. And this book was published back in 2007, it was then accompanied by a DVD. But now I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about this because I have the newer, better edition. Or it's actually, they've changed it so much that I think it's a fully-fledged new book. I think we have to say that. It's called Subtitling Concepts and Practices, published by Rutledge. And it's been prepared in cooperation with Una and WinCup, Subtitling Software Manufacturers. And once you get the book, you get access to some trial versions of these Subtitling programs, which I think is pretty cool. And not only that, instead of the DVD, the book now has a companion website with more materials, more exercises. This book is actually great if you are interested in the theory of Subtitling and if you're interested in practice. So I think it has a very large audience in mind. So if you're interested in Subtitling, this is the book that you need to start with, the book that you need to have. Okay, now let's have a look at this one, Subtitling Norms for Television by Jan Pedersen, back from 2011, John Benjamin's translation library. It's quite pricey, it doesn't have a very sexy title, but I think this book is actually great. Jan Pedersen is an excellent author, he's very clear and funny, and he focuses in this book on translating cultural references. So if this is something you're interested in, and I think it's one of the most important issues in Subtitling, you should definitely have a look at this book. My personal favorite is Chapter 4 when he explains different translation strategies that could be used when you come across cultural elements from retention through generalization to omission and substitution. And then there are loads of examples, mostly from Scandinavian languages, but they're back translated into English, so that's great. Definitely something you may want to have a look at. And these are the most important books on Subtitling. Happy reading!