 Just another little update here about what I'm planning and what's coming up. I had intended to have a number of videos done by this time. It's been a full week since I published that update video and I haven't been able to get to them, but I wanted to do something. So here's a second update. What I'm planning to do with the first part of episode number 100 is I'm going to do a 30-second review of all four books in the Space Odyssey series. I reread all four of them. I had told myself that I would never reread 3001, but I did. The second part I'll talk about the 2001 book and then I'll talk about the movie and then I'll go from there. I said in my last book tag video that I might start doing reviews of science books and I am going to start doing that and I'll begin with I have this two-volume set of the American College Encyclopedic Dictionary. hefty set Again, this is something that belonged to my mother and I acquired a copy just the other day from eBay turned out they were they were all over the place again eBay you can find books on eBay every kind of book you can imagine pretty much Including things like this that you think would be obscure, but they're everywhere I Have some things to say about this set that I grew up with and that'll be my number one science review. I Do have an odd comics review planned for you. I should have done it over the weekend, but I'll get to it and that will lead directly into a comic to review for the 30-second sci-fi review and I do have a lot of board games that I could do for the board hoarder series I need to change the name of that. I've never liked it, but those are time-consuming videos to make There's a lot of editing involved in those. I was thinking what I would do would be a Preview video that would show a Number of board games that I'm going to be covering in the future, but that would involve Even more work, so I don't know Anyway about the update that I did last week. I appreciate the Contact from everybody. I appreciate all the things that people had to say The subscribership grew a little bit The update video got more views than I usually get but those views didn't spread to the rest of the videos It's hard to know How factual the YouTube statistics really are I really don't know what YouTube is actually keeping track of and what they're updating and What statistics they might be changing after the fact? I think they actually change Statistics after the fact in some cases and also I've complained about this before YouTube doesn't necessarily tell me when people have left comments These days I see an a little symbol up in the corner the little bell symbol that tells me when someone has made a comment But they didn't used to do that But I mean not even that they didn't send me an email or have the little notice in the corner or anything These days they have the little the little bell symbol in the corner. So I do know when people are made comments But when someone sends me a direct message I have no idea I discovered a few weeks ago that someone had left me a message and It was in my messages list from months back and They had messaged me again, and I think a third time even I had no idea because YouTube was not telling me I mean no indication at all. I just had to wander in there myself out of curiosity one day So who knows I I I have no idea I Look at the number of minutes viewed In the past month YouTube shows you the number of views the number of video views and the number of minutes estimated minutes watched and for someone like myself who's not well known and who's Mostly a private person. I think it's astonishing that I put myself in front of the camera at all But when I look at those numbers of the numbers of minutes viewed and the estimate is like 15,000 minutes viewed in the past month sometimes 20,000 that's Amazing that's astonishing. It's kind of frightening even for someone like me who's not getting a whole lot of views That's a lot of minutes of people listening to my voice Yeah, that's that's kind of frightening One person who left a comment said that he appreciates the fact that I'm not reviewing new books That I'm I'm reviewing books that have for the most part been forgotten even the what are considered classics For the most part have been entirely forgotten by popular culture and it's a good thing that I'm bringing these up again I'm glad to hear that because that's That's what I have in mind really so More and more I'm thinking that I'm not gonna talk about new books at all and I've had several people not only After this last update video, but in the past I've had people tell me actually thanking me for talking about Putting a book down if I'm not enjoying it and actually advising people to stop reading a book if you're not enjoying it and It's amazing to me That that people seem to be expressing such relief actually relief And having someone say to them. You don't need to finish reading a book It I'll I'll actually do a special video about that right after I finish this I'll record a special video about that very subject because I think it's worth talking about Let me tell you about the other things that I'm doing. Of course. I have the tumbler the 30 second sci-fi tumbler and Again, if you're not looking at that you're missing half of the stuff that I'm that I'm posting on the subject of science fiction I also do a tumbler and a Twitter Called one sketch today. That's my most popular tumbler by the way By a long shot it gets more views than anything else. I'm doing but ironically it gets less Viewer feedback than 30 second sci-fi does 30 second sci-fi is getting very little compared to other things, but One sketch today gets a lot of views, but it doesn't get any feedback and also ironically one sketch today Has almost no input from my own art these days for the first year or so I've posted a drawing every single day these days the other artists who I'm posting are the ones That I'm posting and I'm not doing any art. I also do the Twitter called science forward I Have a website called recasting manos calm If you're looking at my youtube channel, you're also seeing the manos talk show that I do called talk to the hand I Published those periodically and I have a website called Shut up about Star Wars calm What I in one of my videos in the past I was wearing a t-shirt that said shut up about Star Wars and I'm going to use that to try to sell shut up about Star Wars t-shirts And I'm also Going to do an Indiegogo to try to sell mr. B natural t-shirts So look for a video about that. Okay. I'm going to turn off the video now and Make a video About putting down a book See you there You can support 30 second sci-fi and my other projects by becoming a patron. There is a link in the description below