Alt Shift reads Straw Hats: Their History and Manufacture (1922), Chapter 1 

Riveting

Next time you could read something naughty and call it Alt Shift XXX.

Wow! Where did you come up with such an obscure, weirdly detailed book on such a banal subject? No offense meant. I'm really impressed.

Dude, if you're ever in need of a job, audiobooks are the way to go.

Not sure if you'll see this Schwifty but I had a vicious bout of insomnia last night and this was the only thing that helped. Thanks dude, you're a lifesaver

This is really interesting, its making me both slightly sleepy but also really interested in straw hats.

Anyone expecting the novelization of One Piece will be sorely disappointed.

I have no idea why I'm watching this, and I especially have no idea why I can't stop watching.

Next... A history of the colour grey.

Didn’t realize Luffy’s hat is so interesting

For what it's worth, you should do classical literature. Like Dicken's or Twaine. I don't know if that would bring up a copy right issue, but you should find some sort of free use classical story to do.

Your voice is so majestic! love listening to you!

This is easily the strangest subject someone could make a video about, i fucking salute you my friend, but when will you do a Westworld explained ^^

ok I must confess after Morgan Freeman it's you doesn't matter what it is you make it interesting. David Attenborough definite comes after you. please do more stuff.

Eargasm. 😂

The history behind straw hat of Mugiwara No Luffy

Never knew straw hats were that fascinating. I would listen to you reading from the phone book. Or the manual for my new washing machine. Seriously.

Can you continue reading this? I quite enjoyed it.

I love your works, guys. this is perfect for falling asleep, haha. will you ever do ancient philosophy and literature such as Plato, Aesop's fables and etc? Eastern literature such as 4 great literature would be great too.

It's obviously such a marginal topic to be almost laughable, but you have to realize that before the internet and ctrl-shifting PDFs or something the guy had to go through tons and tons of obscure texts and pick out every reference to straw-hats by hand, not knowing whether they would be in them at all or not. Something as small as that would never be indexed in the back of the book either, so while we may laugh now it still is a remarkable piece of scholarship that this exists at all

Came here for something to help me fall asleep... got interested in the topic.

Welcome back! I haven't been able to sleep since this channel was taken down :(

This is amazing. Can't believe I've only just discovered it!

By the way, the "Diarist Pepys" is actually (somehow) pronounced "Peeps"

Listened to the whole thing. Very interesting.

Why is this so captivating coming from Alt Shift though?

i love how the comments are all "this was really great i fell asleep to it!"

Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere please! (Neither boring nor out-of-copyright, but it would be soo awesome!) If not.. The wikipedia article about the periodic table would be great too and seems to be a fitting request :)

10:07 a sweeping f--- a sweeping plume. Still a perfect reading

"I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box and dispose of it in the cold ground. And in the million ages to come, I will never breathe, or laugh, or twitch again. -So won't you run and play with me here among the teeming mass of humanity? The universe has spared us this moment.- "

As a hat maker, I found the subject very interesting. How to access the next chapter ?

I think I'll wait for the TV adaptation, and then I'll watch the Alt Shift X explanation.

I can't stop laughing - seriously... (but I will be listening to these!) "Request more boring out-of-copyright texts to read!"

I thought this was about one piece anime but I still enjoyed the video

I love this guy

Dig your work, especially with Alt Shift X. Ever read Dark Tower series/ consider doing a Dark Tower series analysis?

Couldn't help myself, just bought a straw hat on Amazon for meemaw after listening.

Is it called Alt Shift ZZZ because it makes you want to fall asleep?

Good, now to become a pirate.

No I came here to sleep but you made straw hats fascinating

This is actually pretty interesting

this was actually so fucking boring that it put me straight to sleep. awesome.

Yes! Great idea. :) Please do Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein!

Fascinating !

How much for Chapter 2

I was well on my way to fall asleep until I heard the phrase "manipulation of vegetable fibres"

I started yawning in less than a minute!

Mugiwara.

that's a very random topic lol but great job

Yes!

also it would be a plus if the book moved with your reading, haha.

awesome

Good video. I believe the diarist mentioned at 9:30 is Samuel Pepys and should be pronounced 'peeps'

When's Chapter 2 coming out?

podcast, please!

tbh this is interesting to me. subscribed.

calming

mugiwara

Rock and Roll!

Would old English literature like: Of Mice and Men and Lord of the Flies come under copyright? In literature we have to read those two books. Listening to you read them would be much better!!!

Very sexy voice. 😬 After Altshift X, when I found this channel, I felt like I found a treasure. Please don't you ever shut up. Talk talk talk talk talk 😍😊I love listening sth from your delightful voice, seriously 😍Of course not only the voice, I love how you analyse the situations and topics etc. Great job. 😊

Your upload button may be my G Spot.

You should make a podcast with that voice!

More, please do more...

Can You make a series on american presidents speeches or any extremely popular politician speech?! I think it would be amazing if spoken with Your classic cadence and accent! LOREM IPSUM!!!!!!!!!!!

ONE PIECE

I'm just here because I like One Piece

More, more :)

Someone get this book to Dany asap!

I honestly thought this was about one piece

Mugiwara?

PLEASE READ CHAPTER 2.

Oh fuck yes

thats all well and good, but whats a hat?

Please read Dickens please

Man add ASMR to tags

61,000 views

I thought it was going to be about one piece ._.

Hi, I’m Amery, a great many people have told me that I ought to narrate on some sort of professional level- I don’t know if I am honestly that great, but I am an admirer of your reading voice and if you’d ever be interested in a female voice to speak for a character, please reach out and I’d be more than happy to read something for you. It need not be anything you post, just something that I would regardlessly cherish.

First comment on a new channel yessssss

So is this an asmr channel

Fuckinghamshire

Ear porn I'm sleepy now

ur cute

o_O

So that's where straw hats come from

Who writes this drivel?! 1922 must have been quite a year.