 if i take the pain or more someday previously on my channel the booktube rut but i also feel as though there will be a shift in the booktube community tea an awesome place to connect with people with your same interests the best community on youtube and it's not even by us and i don't want to let them down either hey guys it's julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video i'm going to be doing my second part in my booktube rut series the first video called titled the booktube brush was basically a collab and it talked about it was a discussion collab there we go and it talked about some things um related to a certain topic in terms of booktube and for today's video well first off i just want to say thank you for the amazing feedback on it i really appreciate it but i want to discuss today um how much booktubers should be reading and i remember when i first started my channel well at the very beginning like when i first got into my groove i was reading 25 books a month and now i'm reading like the last few months i've only been reading a few books a month which feels really weird to me and i know a lot of people don't read 20 books a month and some people do and i kind of want to get both perspectives and see like is it like should we really be focusing on quantity like i know some people read mediocre books just for the sake of like reading seven books for a readathon or they will finish a book that they're currently reading even though they're hating it just so they can add it to their goodreads challenge and then there's that whole goodreads challenge you know december's creeping up on us the new year is coming so it's like everyone's going to be setting that challenge now so what are you guys going to be setting your challenge to um in the past years i've set it to 50 and then when i hit 50 i set it to 100 um but what are you guys going to be doing i know some people set it to one and then they don't feel pressure but are some people going to be really strict about the goal probably think about reading more as you get so many more stories so many more experiences that you experience through books but the cons like the months that i've read three books i can obviously remember in detail what happened in all those books more than i could what happened in all the 20 books that i've read which is kind of just a given and a memory thing and do you think that maybe when we're reading so so many books like 20 books a month and you read that one five star read in there do you think you really get to appreciate it when you're jumping to the next read right after or that kind of thing is what i wanted to talk about so today i've included some people in this video who are going to give me their thoughts and opinions on this topic and thank you so much to them for participating um i will have them linked down below so i hope you enjoy the video and their thoughts and make sure to let me know your thoughts down below as well hey guys my name is brit from the booktube channel basically brit and i've been making videos for over three years now and it all started out because i just absolutely loved and reading books and wanted to talk about books and you know when i started booktube i sometimes read over 10 books a month and just like an average of like five to ten books which was just amazing unfortunately over the years i just came to the conclusion that i just can't read that much anymore i have a lot of work to do for university and just for my job itself which means that i'm reading fewer books a month which also means that my wrap ups are not as big and sometimes i just don't really have a lot of books to talk about on my booktube channel but in my opinion that is just totally okay because booktube is for readers whether you read 10 books a month or just one book a month or one book every two months you are more than allowed to make booktube videos and when i think back of just the beginning of booktube and just seeing how many books people read on booktube i also felt like i had to read that many books in order to you know make videos on youtube and i thought that otherwise people didn't really want to watch my booktube videos so sometimes if i was not enjoying a book i would just like work my way through it and just really skim it to you know add a book to my good reach goal and to add a book to my red list to make sure that i just read an extra book but now after a couple of years i was just like why do i do that if i'm not enjoying a book just dnf it really what doesn't matter that you don't finish a book and that you can't add another book to your red shelf because it is definitely not about the quantity of books it is about the quality i would much rather take my time with one amazing book and just read one book a month then read five crappy books that i'm not really enjoying because life is too short to read crappy books and for example i can also think about a couple of questions like am i reading enough well i'm definitely reading enough i wish i could read more but i just have a lot of work to do so the time that i do get to read is good enough for me and whether that means i finish one book a month or five books it's totally okay because i would much rather just read fun amazing books that i'm just enjoying instead of just working my way through as many books as possible to have like a massive wrap-up and yes we all know that big wrap-ups attract a lot of viewers but you know that's okay the people here on booktube are so nice anyways and they will always support you no matter how many books you read so in my opinion really just read the books you want to read don't feel pressured to read a certain amount of books i personally would never do that no when i was younger i did i was like oh no i have to reach my goodreads goal but now i just don't care anymore i put my goodreads goal on one book and i reached it within a week and i was so happy and now it's just like there's no burden on my shoulders whatsoever so now i'm really just enjoying the books that i'm reading at the moment and i really do not feel pressured to read a lot i'm still a reader even though i don't read as much as i did but just know that no matter how many books you read you are a reader you are a booktuber and you are more than welcome on this lovely bookish community hi folks i'm the tasha from the channel my reading is odd and i'm gonna talk to you guys today about the quantity of books and what that means in the scope of booktube and as readers am i reading enough now i am in the mind frame that as long as you're reading something whatever pace that is you are a reader how many books do i need to be reading in a month to be a valid booktuber then as long as you're reading something great um booktube is made up of a lot of people who read 20 books in a month 10 books in a month and sometimes one book in a month and all of those people are okay and all those people's opinions about books are valid you know if you are reading one book a month and you feel like that's not enough then just know that you have an endless possibility of things to talk about you can talk about things that you've read in the past things that you want to read the way that reading enriches you there's so many different topics that you can talk about in booktube that aren't just here's the 20 books i read for me personally both are valid um i typically read about 10 to 15 books a month which is a lot and some people consider that a lot um that is just the pace that i read books given my lifestyle when i choose to read i make it a hobby of mine i make it a choice to read as well but you know it doesn't matter as long as you're reading a book that's fine and if you want to come on camera and talk about books in a video format and post it on youtube then you are a booktuber so yeah don't ever worry about how many books you're reading in a month in comparison to someone else comparisons are just ugly anyway so just you do you read whatever books you'd like to read at whatever pace you're reading them at and talk about them if you want and you are a booktuber do you read mediocre books for the sake of quantity i am a mood reader so i will grab whatever interests me at the time and if it's not doing it for me i put it down and go okay this is not my time to read this book if it's truly something that i hate that i don't think is good then no i typically don't finish it occasionally i'm known to just skim it just to kind of get the just of it so that i can talk about it in a way that makes it sound like i've actually read the entire book i don't i don't typically like to judge books or rate books on goodreads unless i've finished them to some degree and so if i'm looking to rate it and not just put it down then um i will skim it just to kind of get the just of the rest of the story but in terms of reading mediocre books just to get that number up no read whatever you want whether that is you know a good book or a bad book sometimes it's fun to read bad things or label think books that are labeled as bad um but again it's whatever your mood suits right so if i want to do that then i will i want to read books that i know i'm gonna like lice too short to read bad books all the time right so just read whatever you think you're gonna like that's my suggestion and then lastly i'm just going to discuss some pros and cons in terms of reading 20 books in a month versus reading three or whatnot i find again as long as you are absorbing what you're reading at whatever pace that you're reading it then great if you can read 20 books in a month and absorb all that information and remember what the books are about great do it why not right um same thing if you want to read three there's certain months that i read a little bit slower or different genres that i actually read a little bit slower just so that i can fully grasp the information that's being handed to me so that i can retain it i read it a fairly fast pace myself i think and a lot of the times i will forget what i read so i have to sort of train myself to read a little bit slower read a little bit more critically sometimes and just sort of take it a little bit slower i actually really appreciate it when people have clear concise opinions about the books that they've read so really that's all that's important to me as both the booktuber and someone who watches a lot of booktube oh yeah my overall thoughts is quantity of books does not matter as long as you're reading something what your reader does not matter as long as you're enjoying it and read at whatever pace makes you comfortable so yeah i do hope you guys like my opinion and thank you julio for including me in this video um i'm excited to see what everyone else has to say bye i'm ali from hardbackquarter and let's just say that the person i was when i started booktube is definitely not the person that i am today it's been three years of learning how to not give a fuck problem with booktube and just being on youtube in general is that we all seek a little bit of validation so many people out there are doing so many other things they read more than us they buy more books than us their aesthetic is more pleasing than ours things like that can really bog you down one of the big questions that i feel like is constantly coming up is the validation of being a reader especially whenever you watch booktube because so many people are reading so many books they're doing all these readathons and they're finishing seven eight nine books in a week their good read challenges are set at a hundred at the beginning of the year and there you are wondering oh how am i gonna read a hundred books how how am i gonna read seven books in a week that's impossible i have a life i have a job doesn't mean that these people don't it doesn't make you any less of a reader the problem is that you're just facing all of this all these people that are doing all this and it just makes you feel kind of shitty the thing that was booktube is that it can be really great because you find this community who loves books they love talking about books the problem is is sometimes we do it too much i'm not saying that's a bad thing if you read 20 books a month good for you i've done it before if i do it now oh no oh no i thought that reading 20 books a month would make me a better booktuber but at the end of the year i couldn't remember half the books i'm not very good at remembering things you gotta find your comfort zone and so what if someone reads 20 books a month and you read one was it one really fantastic book you're doing good you're doing great the thing with being classified as a reader is that you don't need to seek validation from everyone else you need to seek it from yourself if you consider reading a hobby you are a reader i don't care if you read one book a year if you consider it a hobby that you enjoy you are a reader you could be a booktuber or just a reader that reads maybe three really fantastic things in a month and you do some deep in discussion videos on those i couldn't do that on the 20 books that i read in a month it's not gonna happen and booktube is more about the authenticity of your videos and the entertainment level of your videos more than it is about how much you're reading or what you're reading it's about how you talk about those things and it's just the way you present it i think the problem too with booktube is that we get caught up in reading books that we don't really like so many people are reading these books and they're writing about these books so then you sit down and read it say you pick up six of crows because everyone talks about six of crows you pick up throwing a glass because everyone talks about throwing a glass and then you sit down and read it you force yourself to read it even though you don't like it because that's what everyone else is talking about that tends to be a problem booktube that i've seen a lot is that we hype up these books so much and we shun people who don't like them and it doesn't make any sense just let people read what they want to read let them enjoy what they want to enjoy if you don't like a book it's okay to dnf it it's okay i'm giving you permission to dnf it it's so liberating when you start to dnf books you don't have time to read shit books let's be honest and when there's so many other fantastic books out there waiting for you and you don't have to read the most popular things on booktube chances are if it's so popular and everyone's talking about it you're going to get the gist of it anyway you're going to figure out the jokes you know you don't need to be excluded from booktube because you haven't read a popular series it's fine a series that you do like and that people are talking about would make your own video about how fantastic a series is get a small following behind it you'd be surprised how many people are going to jump on a book based on your recommendation and how many people are going to want to talk to you about it because you recommended it there is no validation you make your channel you make the rules that's what's great about it that sounds like some really cheesy thing that should be like written on mugs or something and handed out that was me spewing thanks julia for having me on the channel and i'll see you in the next one bye hey guys what's up i'm jay from the channel captured in words on my channel i make various types of videos related to book fantasy fantasy books specifically i mainly read adult like high and epic fantasy some videos you'll commonly see on my channel include in-depth reviews lore and theory videos first off thank you julia for having me on your channel now am i reading enough i feel like this is a question that a lot of booktubers and a lot of people that watch booktube have asked themselves now i feel like they're sort of a trend or idea on booktube that you should be reading x amount of books in a month after all youtubers are influencers and i feel like a lot of people get influenced by booktubers that they see reading a large mass of books in a month and i know even for myself when i first made my channel like three years ago i was influenced by a lot of booktubers and i thought i should be reading that amount of books and this caused kind of a reading fatigue for me and to be quite honest i almost quit making booktube videos and at this time i wasn't having fun making videos either i was making a lot of book calls and book tags and stuff that you see a lot on booktube which i think do have value obviously people like to watch those but i just don't really enjoy making those videos so sort of like cam from wolfshop publishing mentioned in julia's previous video let's shout out to him you guys should definitely check out his channel but like cam i came to a point where i knew i wanted to change the videos i was making and in doing so this also changed my reading habits so i've kind of become a slower reader but i'm really enjoying the books i've been reading i just don't have any need to read 20 books in a month i wasn't having fun cramming a bunch of books into a month and i wasn't taking in the content as well and to be honest i kind of feel like this is common on booktube not to put down ya as a whole i've read a lot of young adult books that i think are amazing but i also think there's just a lot of bad ones out there that get really overhyped and i'm just gonna put it out there but i think part of this could be because people read them so fast they don't notice a lot of the bad quality and the thing is there is no license to be a booktuber there's no qualifications other than that you have a passion for reading you don't need to read a certain amount of books somebody can literally love one series and make videos on that series and be called a booktuber this is just a fun community to talk about books you don't need to read 20 books in a month and i think one of the things is that people want to feel validated like they are part of the community but i just don't think you should really care you should just read the books you want to read and read the amount of books you want to read and you don't need to question if you're valid or not everyone is valid i feel like it's also quite common to read a lot of awful and mediocre books just so that you can add that to your goodreads and to me it's more about the quality i think i think that's i think that's a little bit more important now as for the pros and cons of reading 20 books in a month compared to three books a month the pros for reading 20 books is that you can knock down your tbr pile and say you've read a lot of books but if you read only three books in a month i feel like you're able to absorb a lot more and take a lot more out of a book you can take your time to enjoy the book you're reading maybe look at some of the themes and symbols and form a more solid opinion for when you do put up reviews or make a video plus you don't have to be restricted to the type of book that you're reading whereas for the cons of reading 20 books you kind of have to restrict yourself to reading shorter books and books that are more fast paced you might also miss a lot of red herrings and foreshadowing if you're trying to rush through a book which by the way i don't think i've ever read 20 books in a month if you're able to do that and still enjoy a book and take a lot out of it then keep doing you but i i don't really want to do that so yeah overall i don't think reading should be about the quantity of books that you read but more so the quality and how much you're enjoying and taking out of a book anyway that has been my rant and hey feel free to follow me on social media maybe maybe check out my channel i would i would recommend it that it's good i also just opened up a discord server dedicated to readers there's different channels for like spoiler chats as well as just book recommendations and general chatting and merriment so if you'd like to make some friends and join in on the conversation the link to that will be on my channel thank you again julia for having me on your channel thank you guys so much for watching and thank you again to the participants um i really appreciate all of them taking part and yeah part three is coming in december so look forward to that if you care um but thank you so much for watching let me please let me know your thoughts down below i'd love to hear what you guys think about this discussion and maybe some things that you're going to be going into the new year with like you're maybe you're going to have a new perspective on reading in the new year or like a new goal in the new year let me know what it's going to be and i'll see thank you guys so so much for watching i'll see you soon with a new video bye