Really loved watching the video and I love love love books can spend my whole day in those books store they look amazing i wish to visit London someday in the future hopefully thank you so much for sharing this video lots of love from India Mumbai 🥰😘❤️
Ida Olsson You're more than welcome to come, the tourist sights are beautiful, but don't expect too much from central london. She was in the west, unfortunately, it's not so grand in central.
I've been to London just once in my life but the amount of time i spent in bookstores was obscene...the friend that has travelled with me was definitely annoyed by me hah
When I was a kid in London, I used to spend all my pocket money on fantasy horror books. Even the bookstore owner told me to stop spending all my pocket money on books.
This makes me want to visit London again. With one suitcase for my clothes etc and an empty one for the books I'll buy... Do you also have recommendations for second hand bookshops in London?
‘Any amount of books’ in Charing Cross is the ultimate secondhand bargain bookshop ( also really charming and family run ). Also, Henry Pordes is great, and conveniently next door to the previous one !!
Long time since I was last in London, but such a lovely video and merely the sight of all those books makes me happy. You should definitely do a companion piece featuring 2nd hand bookshops if you can - because I think there's something magical about a great 2nd hand bookshop too.
After watching this, all I want to do is go up to a pretty English major and say "shall I compare thee to a summer's day, cuz you're hot as fuck" Thank you for the inspiration
I’m gonna major in comp lit thanks to you introducing the major to me. I also figured out I was dyslexic through your videos. (You and I both ended a long term relationship around the same time.) You have no clue how much your channel means to me. It literally changed the entire course of my life
At last! Someone sensible. If you get the library app you can scan any book in the shop and find that nine times out of ten they have it. You can reserve it to your local library then you get an email saying its waiting for collection. You can renew via the app if you haven't finished. Unless you keep every book keep your money.... When i go book shopping i rarely spend a penny. I book it on the spot and go home with loads of books. Way beyond my budget. And i dont have to carry them home....Too much info? Well thats being sensible for real. I have saved thousands and really bumped up my reading.....😊
This is one of my favourite videos you've made! Such a great idea to show is the bookshops and the editing is amazing too. I would love to see more videos of your favourite places in London ❤️
In the 80s I owned Blitzgeist Bookshop in Harborne B'Ham, primarily as a collector - hence, in my large Italian villa near Dolcedo, Liguria, I house 1000s of books, with weekly upgrades. I began my 2nd collection [maths, philosophy, logic etc] in 1961 as I worked in bookshops on Tottenham Court Road & Charing Cross Road & sold it off circa 1982. I also collect artworks & my gallery can be seen by tapping in Dolcedo Art of the Thunderbolt on RU-vid + there's a BBC film The Lost Genius, both of which display a few of my precious volumes. I also create my own books & I've written the largest illustrated volume since Leonardo over 50 years in the making - it's vast & with my small handmade books, which are completely OTT & uncensored., I constantly add to. My volume The Autobiography of God Almighty was published in 2003 & my volume Cogitatio is published on Academia.edu along with various papers. Books are IT!
This videos gives me the cosy vibes and feelings that my grandfathers old Super-8-Films give me. Thank you for that. I really missed that and especially him 💗
I always though that it's silly to apologize when giving your opinion about a book in your own channel , but when you pointed to the remains of the day and said that's terrible I, without choosing to do so, gasped and said HOW DARE YOU ? lol lovely video
where I live they only really have chain bookstores which always have the same variety of books. I've found a few more unique and specialised shops, but not nearly as many as I've encountered on my travels!!
I love bookstores. I'm keeping your list, should I ever make it back to London-now I have an extra incentive. Should you ever make it to Portland, Oregon, check out Powell's City of Books. You'll go nuts.
LOVE this video, am definitely going to check these out! As a fellow Londoner and Lit graduate (aka book nerd) I would like to recommend Gay's The Word for all the Sapphic energy your heart could desire - it's entirely LGBT+ books, both fiction and non-fiction, and they give you a free bookmark with your purchase!
not in west london but henry pordes books is my favourite one, it's a second hand bookstore but i love it. it's so small and it smells of dusty old books and everything is so pretty in there if you're into the messy bookshelf aesthetic
Have you read 'The year of Reading Dangerously' by Andy Miller? It's all about reading those books he feels he "should" have read! New here and loved the video 📚
@@JessieRainbowEyes ohhh right. i’m gonna go to all these places this weekend hahah as i live in west london, like 20 mins by the tube to these areas. :)
Another good bookstore, it’s located by “Frances Lundy school of dance’ in West London. It’s just called ‘Bookshop’. All the hooks there are cheap and it’s a really nice area as well!
Someone who pronounces Marylebone correctly! (Unlike me 😕) I really like the Bloomsbury Waterstones, nicely ramshackle and rambling. You don't necessarily need to read a book, just stick it on your bookshelf and osmosis will occur.
apparently daunt books closed down?? literally when i just discovered it on Instagram i searched it up and its gone now i think. wtf i can’t have anything 😭
Holy crap, you know how perfect this is right now, I just got to London for a weekend and I’m only here for like 1more day and me and my sister really wanted to find a good book shop, and here you are, thank you sooo much ❤️
Would it be a sin if I said I hat* you??? Because not only are you in UK & London, to boot, BUT GOING TO 📚 STORES. If you also stop to get a cuppa, well, just shoot me now...put me outta my MISERY. Going to London & Yorkshire is on my BUCKET LIST. If I NEVER make it at least I can live/travel vicariously through others. Thanks for sharing ☺️ what only makes me sigh & groan with envy. At least I have a 🍵 to enjoy. A DAY WITHOUT HOT TEA & A BOOK 📚 IS A DAY WITHOUT SUNSHINE 🌞. Oh, to have a brellie ☔, rainy day, walking to a 📚 store after taking the TUBE 🚇 and then having a proper cream tea ☕ at a small but charming London restaurant or Hotel while you look out at the street with people rushing by... WAIT...did I text that out loud?? 😆 Anyway, THANK you for this wonderful vid.❤️❤️❤️❤️
@ Simon Lake, I totally agree with you. In the 1970's & 80's there were some fantastic second hand bookshops, especially in & around the Charing Cross Road area, at least 6 or 7. But alas, they have almost all gone ! Such a shame, but it is just too expensive to run such a business in the London area in.
01:52 I can most whole heartedly recommend Croatia as a Travel Destination. I lived in London for a long time but can honestly say I missed out by not exploring the more independent bookshops. When life returns to normal I think a few visits are to be placed in the diary. Oh and spending hours browsing in bookstores is not time wasted.
@Nicky L I never buy new books. There are quite a few good second hand book shops out there with perfectly like new books. Always worth giving them a look in before new book, book shops. 😊
I mean i prob wont have a chance to go to London but im just gonna eye cleansing since my city does its best to disappoint me,, MY CITY,, WHY DONT U HAVE A BOOKSTORE :(
Very interesting - I've been many times to London and have many Favorite bookshops there but I've never been to any of those so I have something fun to explore next time.
Loved the video. I absolutely love book shops, all my friends and family think I’m weird because of it. I love the smell of books, especially the older secondhand ones. And because of your video I just bought the Susan Sontag book! Looks like perfect reference and learning material for my current essay X
I loved this vlog so much 🥺🥺🥺I have always dreamed about going to England and visit all the beautiful bookshops. Thank you for sharing. Do you have any vlogs about some cool University bookstores in England - Oxford? Cambridge?
Yesterday, I was frustrated at how little I have read this year. This morning, RU-vid recommended me this video. Coincidence? When I am next in London, I will visit these shops, especially the last one. Also, I love the chill vibe here.
😢😫😳😞🤓 Obviously, my sweet, you asume everybody knows those librarles, But quite a few of they, did not exist 40 years ago, the time I studied at Imperial College and lived near old Brompton Road tuve station. You go so fast i had to stop the video many times. I promised to visit the cookery boom shop Nextel time i am near Notting Hill. 🤗☝🏽️👴🏻
Great work, Emma. I will visit them the next time I visit London. Did you happen to drop in at Black Gull Books in Camden Market? I picked up two Greenes from there. Nice, quaint place.
Hi Emma, I very much enjoyed your bookshop video. Just wondering whether you would be interested to something likewise but focussed on the upcoming trendy - from old to new - Hackney Wick area and Lea Valley historic industrial area. Dr Jim Lewis wrote several books about this and I am sure many people would find it very interesting
Appreciated would be an adult gentleman's video of bookstores with technical content: sciences, engineering, computers, vehicles, finance, real estate, architecture, fashion, politics, and law. Bits of history, photography, philosophy and mathematics would be good too. Best textbooks and references for any of these subjects are on topic, including specialties such as medicine, programming, and construction. Yes, these probably are a bit away from your usual path, but consider that most exciting word -- research!
2:00 Please try to read it again. It is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. But I understand, school and teachers and people spoiled many books and things for me, just because I HAD to read it, HAD to dot it. You certainly know whatt I mean... And now I do the same: You have to read it. No, just kidding. But seriously, it is wonderful and sad and admirable and wonderful. I just said that, did I?
this video made me miss england and london so much...my favourite book store I HAVE to visit whenever I'm in london is "Any amount of books" (A second hand bookshop) in covent garden :D
I loved your video and thank you for bringing us inside the bookstores . If you would like to read a new book check out Burglary A very personal crime , my husband wrote the book and it’s based on real stories . It’s on Amazon . Thanks
