how many of my 1,000+ books have i actually read? 

Explain it as a book dragon! You are just collecting your treasure (books) for the sole reason of owning and hoarding them. Dragons don't have use for Gold either

me with yarn... craft supplies in general... now books too. It's okay though. Spouse says he'll build me a wall to wall bookcase to fill. He's a reader too.

Actually, there are 3 hobbies about books: buy, read, and watch people talk about them 🙋🏽‍♀️💀

@@gingerfaniThat’s a really good way of explaining it!

You have all our support!

I was thinking that the WHOLE time

He did say in a previous video he isn't a numbers boy

Maybe he has dyscalcula?😭

I was just thinking that Jack doing math is the personification of the phrase "The struggle is real" LOL.

YES! Thank you. I was like…is it just me or you know, MATH

How many books do you have?

You’re brave for calculating that - I don’t want to know

@@car4368 why not? Maybe he has around 100 books and he read only 64...

@@adityaraj6377 oh I meant brave in that no way am I doing that for myself 😂 I’ll be happily in denial about the amount I own and what I have read and not read.

@@car4368 I am happy coz my success rate is 100% but kinda sad coz i only have few books.

Me 2❤

I have at least 20 in my TBR 🙂

​@@jshasan865just 20?? 💀

No cuz I buy so many of his recommended literary fiction books that I can find at the bookstore and I’ve only read a few so far 😭

He and every booktuber I watch is why my TBR is so extensive. And his “book buying and book reading” is my new bookish motto/philosophy.

i'll take that as a win!!

To be honest I'd be impressed with 1/4

i've said it more times than i've read pages of the novel

​@@jack_edwards😂😂

That is so smart. That would bug me to no end and REALLY get me reading hahaha!

It would have been less of a workout 😅😂

I DO THAT TOO it’s so fun to turn them around

this is smart i might do this LMFAO

I do the same thing! It's like I'm slowly coloring in my bookshelf!

I love this ideology. It's quite intelligent

Well said!

What a spectacular comment! Love it!!

Cool! That means I'm guilty as charged. Rar more unread than read. If I've read them and kept them it means I really love them and think I will read them again. There's books I've liked or loved and given away too, so that other people can enjoy them.

No

I LOVE the description of it as a pantry! I agree, I have a fixed amount of shelf space, and I hardly ever will give away a TBR but a mediocre book I have read is first on the chopping block.

My main problem with this approach is that I usually end up thinking to myself that I'll either want tot reread a book at some point or that a friend might want to read it. I do occasionally sell books I don't see myself rereading at all but those are few and far between.

I pretty much do this too. I only keep maybe 5-10% of the books I read, bc I have to absolutely LOVE it & want to re-read it someday in order to justify keeping it in my limited space.

​@@ElentirionI definitely don't buy books I won't reread, so giving them away is not an option for me

I have just done a huge sort out and have gifted many books to community libraries. I have never done this before but feel pretty good about both sharing the joy and filling the empty space in my shelves

Nice word!

man, the white-girl urge to get this tattooed now is crazy 😭 very nice word !

Maybe more Ikiume given Japans preference for euarthquakes

I love ❤️ this word!

@stephanieellison7834hand over your books now because I own your library

Nice idea

I wrote down the names of books in my TBR and put them in a vase. (Sequels go into an envelope and pull out the next and place it in the vase once I read one that's part of a series). I also get overwhelmed with choosing a new one and can get bored with a series if I'm reading all of them at once. Your idea of wrapping them is fun!

I just read my books in FIFO order. It's a lot less work than wrapping them up. But you seem to enjoy your way, so you do you. :)

I was going to suggest this as well! I have a tbr shelf and it really helps when you're trying to figure out which book to read next.

I thought he was going to do this originally

Exactly, gather them all together, and why not by colour lol?!

Thank you! I thought this was the.obvious thing to do. Because if he then turns them around (or not) he has a designated place for all his new and to TBR Books.

i was too so anxious Jack was not going to go through the top ones ahaha

i know that's right!!!!!!

what are you doing step ladder? 😏

I'm a huge mood reader, so if a book isn't exactly what I'm in the mood for at that moment, I won't read it. It would be impossible for me to only have a few books on my physical TBR for that reason!

I work in a bookstore so I get sent loads from publishers and I have a good discount which over 1.5 years of working has resulted in wayyyy too many unread

Ikr? And whenever I buy a book is for short term reading, if I takes a while to read it's because I fucked up 😂 it's interesting how people differ in this aspect

Most of the books I get are from my birthday, which is a big batch at a time, so I’m already doomed to have several on my tbr 😅 Then again, I’m at the start of my collection and still figuring put my tastes, so I’m still trying out my way of reading

I have 208 books on my physical TBR. Recently I moved to my boyfriend's place. I took only 20-30 books with me, since i will have to wait at least a month before my bookshelves get to my bf's place. Right now I have 10 books left unread and it drives me crazy. I'm not in the mood for any of them. So, as a mood reader I am missing my huge tbr

That's a great tip! Think I might adopt it.

I kind of prefer the way Jack has done it. But both of your ways are actually good ideas I might do it.

He does that. Gotta watch till the end😂

It's such a great one!

I read it a a few years ago and still think about it today ! Enjoy, studying it in class must be great !

I LOVE this idea. I might do this the next time I’ll be productive. Next year maybe

What author?

@@Xiallaci Patrick Süskind!!

I keep my physical TBR seperate too. It means when I see it I am motivated to read something off it. Also - until I read it, I don't know if I'll want to keep it. As I only try keep books I really love and might read again. Just to keep to my space restrictions in my small home.

I doubt that a lot is going to be donated since he also keeps books that he dislikes (e.g Diary of an Oxygen Thief, etc.) 😅 I mean, I’m not complaining, it’s totally up to him and I know a lot of people that cannot let go of books. 😄 So, but maybe I’m mistaken. :)

!!!!!!!!!!!!

He does that in this video too

That’s a really impressive collection!!

As someone with 87 books, I am now motivated to make it to one hundred lol

@@Addylovesbooks I always told me the same thing

Speaking of Malaysian authors, I enjoyed Yangsze Choo's "The Ghost Bride" (5★). That's some great literature there.

Same! Most of my read books are either from the library (physical and online) or borrowed from friends 😂 Can’t really buy too many books in this economy

oh you are going to hate my next month of my content i'm sorry in advance

@@jack_edwards Lol, thanks for the forewarning. As an actual librarian please at least stop saying that it is an official definition of a library, as it is not. In the United States in particular we have a problem in our schools where it’s argued that having classroom “libraries” is better and replaces having a centralized school library and librarian. No matter how many books in those classrooms they will never be libraries. A library is a curated collection of books that are purposely chosen for their width, breath and representation of all genres to fill the needs and interests of all readers. Librarians are charged with buying and suppling their libraries with the best books in all areas, even ones that they may not be interested in or be biased against. It is created for the audience, not the individual. In the classroom there are a collections of books, but it doesn’t make it a library, they will never have the width and breathed and curatorialship of a true library and are not an adequate replacement. Especially in classroom book collections in the US there is a vastly under representation of nonfiction, which at least should be 50/50, which it almost never is. As many people fall in the divide of preferring fiction vs. nonfiction this leaves out a vast number of students to be inspired by reading. Nor can it adequately cover the titles in all the areas that nonfiction encompasses. In the US libraries and librarians are greatly under fire at the moment. To be a librarian you actually have to have a master’s degree and that has been true since the 19th century. Conversely, it has only been relatively recent that public school teachers have been required to have masters degrees to be a teacher. So, while librarians have always had extensive and high level academic training to make book selections decisions, suddenly you have parents and principals wanting to make those decisions instead of the professionals whose expertise is that process. Librarians are highly skilled individuals doing a professional job that has very high academic standards and ethics, especially when it comes to intellectual freedom. They are in fact the first line of defenders on the war of intellectual freedom and we are being undermined and dismissed at every level. What you have is a personal library, a collection that is highly curated, but to your own very specific likes and interests, most of which seems to be fiction. To me a personal library can be a million books, or a handful and each tells the story of the person who assembled it. This idea of 1,000 is very disconcerting looking at economic disparity, privilege and access. I think of the The Book Thief and her meager, but all to important library of titles stolen or even pilfered from a graveyard. A child in Africa with a handful of books of their own in their house should be just as celebrated and uplifted for their personal library as those in the 1,000 plus club. This made up definition of what a personal library is really does no one any favors, it just creates a divide and very much an economic one. So, I throw down this as a challenge to you Jack and I’ll add another challenge as well. Collect and read more nonfiction. Even if it’s about authors, books and writing. A well rounded reader reads both, and I know that that’s what you are striving to be, a well rounded reader.