 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book tag. I was not tagged this time, but I was going to do a shout out video for AG McDonald. He runs a fantastic animated book tube channel and he releases videos every single day. I'm not sure how that's possible. I don't know if he has some special kind of software or what, but he has a fantastic channel and I highly suggest you go check his videos out, especially his one for this book tag. This book tag is the dilemmas of the dilemma of a book nerd. Is that right? I gotta go look in here. Let's see here. But it was created by Lindsay's Little Library and yes, it is the dilemmas of a book nerd. Okay, I actually did my research this time and I'm not just running around half-cocked. Like John Wayne Bobbitt. The number one question is book storage. How do you store and organize your books? This is literally why I had this office built. If you guys don't know, this office studio, whatever I call this thing, a storage shed, was supposed to be a storage shed to begin with. But I found such nice wood paneling for the walls and everything and then I covered them up with bookshelves. I decided to do early on, if you guys, I don't know, if you've been a long time subscriber, I used to do videos like from the desk and whatnot. It looks so nice, the angles I could get and whatnot. I decided to start doing videos because my friend Cody Tidwell did a list of, I'm going off on a tangent, but let's just hang on top for a second. He did a list of his top six favorite Stephen King covers. So I did a list of my top five Stephen King books. That blew up. So here's your channel. Before that I did little stupid things like, I did, I did, I just made a noise for no reason. Before that I did the odd alcohol review. And I also did some little almost like vine content. There's one of me riding a bike where I say Hio Silver Away. Anyway, stuff like that. So this office was supposed to be a storage shed and off camera over here against the wall where my air conditioning and everything is, is just stacks and stacks of books. If you have attended my book sales on Twitter, you will have seen some of that in the background. I try not to take too many pictures of it because it's ugly. I mean this is literally just stacks of books from the bottom all the way to the top. And I know that might sound beautiful, but they're not, they're not books that are in good condition. So the spines are all creased and cracked and whatnot. But yeah, so I store books out here and mainly books that I don't plan on reading because I sell books on the side too. So yeah, I just got loads and loads of just books sitting over here. Bunch of James Patterson, Clive Cussler, Dan Brown. Let's see here, Jim Butcher. Let's see here. Oh, Nelson DeMille, even though I like Nelson DeMille a little bit. But that was question number one. We gon' be here a while. All right, dilemma number two, tracking. How do you keep track of what you've read and what books you own? I just use Goodreads. I mean it's kind of a boring answer, but at one point in time I used to add stuff to Goodreads that I wanted to read, but now I only add stuff to Goodreads that I own in some way, shape, or form. You know, audio book, ebook, ARC, whatever. So I don't keep track. It's odd because I don't keep track of the books that I want. I literally, I only use that for that. So I went and I wiped out my entire Goodreads and now I only add books that I own, but I don't have all of the books that I own on there. So I still to this day do not track very well because of that. So I will buy books two, three times. I have a book, a video, I think it's the top five books I want to read or something like that, but I don't think I'll ever get to, where I talk about I have five copies of The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I have three paperback copies and two hard covers because I can't remember if I have it or not when I get out there. I don't have that problem anymore, but I did have that problem. So I don't even track my books very well now, so that question kind of doesn't work for me. The lemon number three, borrow. Do you lend your books out? Never. I will give away a book before I lend it out. I feel the same way about money. I don't lend people money. I just, you know, if I'm going to get, I just, I don't want that drama of having to worry about whether or not they're going to give it back. I'm super paranoid about stuff like that. Not because I'm worried about getting my stuff back. It's because I'm worried about it ruining the relationship. So many times in my life, great, I thought great relationships were absolutely spoiled because of lending things and not getting them back or things accidentally getting destroyed and them no longer talking to me or responding to me because they think I'm harping on them to give it back or whatever. So I don't lend books. I give them away and if I can't give them away, I try to buy a copy for them. You know, if it's a good friend, I'll just go ahead and buy the copy because I, you know, I want the author to do well. So let's see here. Dilemma number four, buying. How do you buy or acquire your books? Library sales, yard sales, thrift shops and Amazon. I used to do half, not half price, thrift books. I did thrift books three times. I was talking to JB Taylor about this who I'm going to tag in this. I was talking to him every single time that I ordered a book from thrift books, I got a damn advanced reader copy. These aren't supposed to be resold. It says right on the cover that they're not for resale, but thrift books, Amazon's bad about this too, but you would think a company would see that whether or not either they won't buy, they shouldn't buy them or if they're donated, they shouldn't be selling them. I mean, that's anyways, but so I stay away from that. So every now and again, I'll go to eight books hunting certain copies, but it's so, so hard to find books that are labeled properly online. So I tend to buy, I try to get stuff off eBay if I'm looking for a collectible, but eight books every now and again, you will get lucky. All the time I see stuff listed over there as a first edition that is actually either a book club edition or, you know, a, like a, not, well, not second edition, but like a first edition, like 13th printing, especially with Stephen King stuff. And people will believe if it's a first edition, it's a first printing and that's not the case. You know, you can have a first edition and it'd be on a 13 print, 13th print, and it'd be worth absolutely nothing, but people are still selling them for, like, you know, a huge markup because it's a first edition. Okay. Dilemma number five, comments. How do you respond to the how do you read so much comment or similar comments? I don't really have anything else to do. I mean, that's, that's it. Like, I read, I write, I hang out with my family. That's, that's my life. I do this. I was talking about this on stream the other day, but I do this channel. The whole reason I started this channel was to start a community and have some kind of social hour kind of deal. That's why I respond to comments. That's why I talk to people like I do in, in, when I do the live streams. That's why I try to respond to most of the comments. I used to respond to them all, but nowadays I just don't have time. And I get, you know, hundreds of comments on, you know, my videos across, you know, throughout the week. But I just, I don't leave the house. I don't do anything else. I'm disabled. I've had five back surgeries. So I don't travel much. I don't go out much and I don't have any friends in real life other than my best friend who lives about an hour and a half from me and I can't get down and see him all that often because I can't ride in the car for that long. So I, I literally tell people, I don't do anything else. I read, I write and I hang out on YouTube and I especially spend time with my family. Okay, next up. Dilemma number six, next book. How do you pick your next read? I'm constantly being asked to buddy read things with people. So that's usually how I come across books, not come across books, but that's usually why I start reading something. And somebody goes, Hey, I haven't read that yet. You want to read it together. And I'm like, hell, yeah, either that or I'm reading for projects. So like Stephen King, Dean Coons, that kind of thing for the channel before the channel. I mean, I was, I still am a mood reader. I mean, I picked the goldfinch off the shelf. Well, also the movie's coming out and I wanted to be able to read the book before I saw the movie. I was interested. I've always been interested in that book. I'm loving it, by the way. And so I'm still a mood reader. Like I'll just pick things. I'm, I'm, well, Helter Skelter. I was about to say Helter Skelter was one, but it's not because I'm buddy reading that with Stephanie. They're great, by the way. Wicked Junior Reach. You need to check them out. And then Milo Unopolis is dangerous. I was just in the mood for that kind of, that kind of, you know, nonfiction. So I jumped on that. So I'm a mood reader, I guess, mostly, but I also read for projects and education. And very, very seldomly would it be education. But every now and again, I'll read something. I'm like Einstein's theory of time or, you know, whatever, something like that. Let's see here. When I'm feeling dumb, especially, I'm like, I got to do something. And all of a sudden I'm manic for, you know, I got to harm all the education. All right. So number seven, the lemon number seven, travel. How do you pick what books you bring on vacation with you? I don't go on vacation. And when I do go on vacation, I don't take a book with me because I'm going on vacation. So I want to get away from, you know, what I normally do. And I know, I know readers, you're like, oh my God, how can you not want to book on workers? I understand. But me, I want to get away from normal life. So if I'm going to go do something like Disney World, I'm going to wear myself out at Disney World. And then I'm going to come back to the hotel and pass the fuck out. Pretty much that's it. But I don't go on vacation because I can't handle the travel too much. I do staycations all the time. So basically, I mean, but I also have a very different life than like your average person because I don't go to a nine to five job or any, I don't go to, you know, I don't leave the house to go to a job. My job is, you know, writing and content creation and book selling and all that stuff. So I just, I don't vacation. So that's an interesting one. I didn't actually read through these. I did watch A.G. McDonald's video. I didn't watch the original video. Shame on me. Bad E. But I did watch A.G. His answers. Like I said, go watch that video. Great, great stuff. Cancel! I love that. You're going to have to really look, it went out and really looked for it in the intro usually. But that's kind of like his catch phrase. It makes me laugh every single time he says it. All right. Dilemma number eight, annotate. Do you write or highlight or mark up your books in any ways? Oh yes, Jesus. I write all over a book. But I don't plan on, I only write in books I don't plan on getting rid of ever. So it's like my old Stephen King paperbacks that my readers copies as they're called. I'll write all over the back of a book. I'll write in the margins. I write all over. I don't highlight because I don't own highlighters. I just don't see any purpose in buying them when I buy pins. So I'll just underline things. I'll mark the page number. I will write out why I'm marking that up in the back, that kind of thing, taking notes and whatnot. But yeah, I write all over a book. I know I got some of you triggered out there. I apologize, but you'll be okay. Let's see here. Number nine, Dilemma number nine, new or backlist. Which do you prefer, new releases or backlist books? I tend to veer toward backlist. If you're a fan of the channel, you know this. I do, however, review on that galley. So if something peaks my interest, it's new, like Wanderers by Chuck Wendig. I'm gonna be getting to that this weekend. If I can find my copy, I can't find it right now. I don't know what happened. It was in that house. Now I can't find it. So hopefully I get to it. But just kind of disappeared. I've never lost a book like that before. Except for like Watership Down, but that was packed away. But most of the time it's backlist books. If it's Stephen King, my favorite authors, it's gonna be their newest stuff. Caroline Kepnes, Haruki Murakami, at least when the translations finally hit us. When the English translation says, then I buy it brand new. But I guess it's mostly backlist, I would say. Cause I'm always rereading books. I have more fun rereading a book than I do reading it for the first time. Normally, because I catch so much more. It's like watching a movie over and over again. Like the sixth sense kind of thing. You start seeing all the red, all the hints that the director gave to us. I really enjoy that. I really like rereading, especially literary fiction that has theme, thematic elements, things like that. I really like that. So last one, dilemma number 10. I hope I didn't skip anything. Let me check real quick. I think I got everything. Okay, so dilemma number 10, sequels. Do you read books as they are released or wait for an entire series to be published before reading book one? I don't like sequels. I don't even buy a book. Normally, if I know it's part of a series, unless I can get the whole thing at one time, or at least the first 10 kind of deal. Like with a John Sanford, I plan on eventually getting to him. Everybody's telling me how great Lucas Davenport is. Some people say his other, like Virgil Flowers and a couple other ones are great. But that's, I don't normally, I never read something because it's a series. And if I do, I try to wait until it's over. Unless it's something like really pop culture-ish that I really want to get into. Like I tried Game of Thrones, didn't care too much for the first book. And then the second book, I actually think that the series was better, the HBO series. I know all these controversial opinions. I'm sorry, you'll be okay. But like I said, I just try to stay away. I'm actually collecting Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archives, I guess is the series name, on audiobook and not tend. I intend to binge them all as soon as he finishes all 10, 1200 page books. That is nuts. I can't even fathom creating that much content. And on top, and I'm pretty damn prolific as a writer myself, but he's writing thousand page books more than one at a time every year. That's great. Well, I mean, he's writing like other series on top of that. He wrote the Reckoner series, Miss Born. I think someone said he only does, he has someone else type him up for him and he does all the narration kind of deal on his walks. If that's true, let me know. If you're a Brandon Sanderson fan and you know the ins and outs, no, not the ins and outs. If you know the details of how he writes, let me know down in the doobly-doo. I might be thinking of someone else. But okay, so I am going to tag, I would love to hear Stephanie at, that's what she read. I would love to hear what she has to say. I'm gonna tag Wicked Jr. reads. They are a great channel. Please check them out. I tagged them in the last video. I'm going to be putting a link to them down there because you know, I'm tagging them. And let's see here. Ryan's Beautiful World, I want him to do it. Who else? J.D. Taylor, I already mentioned him. And one more. I like doing five, you all do a top five. I like doing five. So I will also tag Cammie's Corner. Let's do Cammie's Corner. All right, so I tagged those five people. If you would like to do it, please feel free to do it. I certainly jumped into the tag. Nobody tagged me, so please do it if you want to do it. If you want to answer these questions down there in the doobly-doo, do that too. But until next time, I have been E, you've been U. This has been another book tag video. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye.