2021 BOOKSHELF TOUR AND FILMING SETUP

hi guys so today's video is going to be a 2021 bookshelf tour as well as a little bit of a filming setup i'm sort of laughing at myself because i feel like you guys may or may not be surprised to know that i do all of my filming on my phone and i propped my phone up with my wallet because i have one of those phone cases that is also a wallet so i just flip it and then tilt it i just cannot justify spending a lot of money on a camera to get a slightly better maybe a lot better but to get a better image quality i'm like oh it's good enough that money can go toward better things but i thought i would take you through some of my filming setup as well as what my bookshelves are currently looking like so if you're new here hi hello i have really fantastic local used bookstores where i live i am very privileged to live in an area where i have great accessibility when it comes to books so my bookshelves are frequently changing because they are amazing at giving you great store credit and then also you can use that store credit to buy new books in the store so a lot of times my husband and i when we maybe we felt lukewarm about a book or maybe i really like a book but i want a different edition or something like that i'll turn those books in and then i often get new books with the store credit so my bookshelves are frequently changing and i do have quite a few unread books on my bookshelves so i thought i would show you what they are currently looking like i try to have the books that are in frame the ones that i have read and enjoyed so that you can have an idea of my tastes but uh there's another shelf up here and then there's some more shelves down here that you don't see that have a lot of unread books i also have a tbr cart that we have titled mr tabur and that's got a whole other group of books on it but anyway let's jump into it because i've babbled for too long at this point so let's let's get into it so first i wanted you all to get an idea of what i see so i have i actually did buy some lights for myself so i have two lights over here i can control whether they're cool or warm and that's nice but i also have a few books stacked up here this is where i place my phone and then i have this adapter for the microphone so i can plug this in and this stand works great because if i have notes if i'm gonna film something i can keep those there i can also clean my glasses i have the remote for controlling the lights i'll show you what this is really quick and then we'll jump into the bookshelves themselves so normally i have this light turned off when i'm filming because it just doesn't i don't know i'm not a fan of the way it affects the lighting but i will move all this in a sec so that you can get a better view of the bookshelves i wanted to show you though this is what i do for bookstagram uh pictures i just have this old box that i use i flip it upside down i like the white and then i have the little a lot of times you can buy potpourri type things for really cheap at discount stores and i'll kind of lay that kind of stuff out and then just plop a book down i do that during the day have the window open to do it and then that's how i take bookstagram pictures so this is like this is booktube over here bookstagram over here i will also put little pieces of tape on the ground to keep track if i have to move the lights of where i like having them set up i have the same thing in place for the stand and the other light but moving on to the bookshelves this is the current sort of bigger view of the shelves i get asked quite a bit where i got these i just got them from walmart's website so they're not fancy they're not the best but they do the job of holding up books i also have mr tabor over there and some games as well as a couple of things that people have very nicely sent me so if you're interested in the cosmere games i'll have a video linked about them they're super fun i'm going to start with the more middle section that you typically see in my videos right in the center we have a lot of sanderson so this time around when i organize my shelves i like to try different things i just really wanted things of similar sizes to be together so i have a lot of my sanderson hardbacks here as well as the strange the dreamer duology queens of venice lear and queens of renthia so i have read all the books that you see right there here we have the big floppy paperbacks this is an arc of rhythm before i had somebody once comment on a video they're like oh rhythm before is short and earthbringer great it's gonna suck or something like that and i was kinda like oh it's an arc it's actually longer but anyway i also have my first law of floppy paperbacks and then over here i have a few that i have yet to read that i'm hoping to read this year and then bloodsong i do have the rest of the series i'm scared to read it because everybody says it's not very good but i want to keep the first one up here because i've read this one and then i have the other ones kind of put away because while i used to have it as a higher priority currently because i've heard so many negative things i'm okay with just the one being up right now moving from there over to this side i do get asked every now and then why do i have a couple books turned around and the reason for that is the third book in this trilogy and the third book in this trilogy are coming out soon so i just turned some books around as placeholders currently because i know i'm gonna want those going there this is primarily some young adult fantasy that i've read and i have read everything up until this last one on the shelf keeping the red books visible same goes for down here got a lot of ve schwab and fireborn house of dragons the ash princess trilogy the blood of stars duology the senate of the crane and then long may she reign and then we've got some final fantasy giant books because i love final fantasy so got those on the shelf represent my love of those video games moving over here now to the left we have kind of a mix of things i still wanted to keep a lot of things of similar size by each other and i just found that a lot of these hardbacks went well with the full metals you got to keep the full metal additions together obviously and once again have read all the books on the shelf enjoyed all the books on the shelf moving up we have unfortunately i have lent out golden sun and haven't gotten it back yet so at some point the shelf is gonna change i have a feeling the thing that's going to change is i'm going to move these joe abercrombie's other books i'm thinking i'll move those and then put golden sun back i do have like i said some more joe abercrombie down there but i haven't read these two yet just have them up here just in the meantime but i so hope that illumicrate continues with this beautiful last wish because we need more witcher editions like that i also have a lot of my leigh bardugo i know a lot of people aren't the biggest fan of leo bardugo's books but you know i'm a fan of the grisha verse and i am not ashamed and then we have some unread books here i have not yet read legend born or ruin of kings but those are buddy reads for january and february so i'm really excited those will be read very soon sticking with those same concepts we have this shelf down here so this is where we start getting a mix of books that i have read and then haven't read as much we'll go ahead and start here in the middle so once again yes i have more editions of the grisha verse i have read sendlin ascends but this is an example of i haven't read books two and three but plan two so it kind of is a mix of i've read and then haven't read we also have quite a few of the buddy read books here like the tethered mage and gideon the ninth we write the storm the bone chips those are buddy wreaths that i'm doing with jessie from the channel jessie may this year i'll have the buddy reads video link in the description bar down below i have not read this series by marie lu quite yet but i have read the seven realms series quite enjoyed it and then red knight haven't read i've heard good things about it but once again it matched in size and i have orbit on the outer edges of this shelf over here we have i'm not gonna lie i really wanted not only size but color to be factored in on the shelf i just thought this area looked so pretty so excuse me for not being a real bookworm because i care about what the books look like on my shelf but polish witcher editions i do not speak polish i just freaking love these editions i got them for my birthday and i will never get rid of them i also have a bunch of the uk sanderson books the ve schwab the uk editions over there match these that's why i have them here instead of where i had v schwab up there have a copy of my book and then we have two books i have not yet read but i thought they looked nice on the shelf and i just i just i love how pretty and bright those two are over here on this shelf once again similar to how we had senlin ascends i have some books that i have read but haven't finished on with the series or read other things by the author example would be the knife never letting go i've read but not yet finished the trilogy i have read the scythe arc of the scythe trilogy but not unwind so i want to read those i have read a book by bridget kemmerer and i want to read letters to lost soon loved uh the thief quite a bit sort of kaigen was an honorable mention for favorites of the year these two i have yet to read but they are continuations of this series this is the uk edition of the shadow of the fox trilogy which i very much enjoyed and then this once again i have a book turned around because i my friend is borrowing it that would be 9th reign have you heard me talk about ninth reign i really like ninth reign these are the next two and then i do have another copy of the downstairs girl because i enjoyed that book i liked it a lot down on the bottom i'm not gonna spend much time with because these are mostly unread i've read some of these sometimes you'll see a similar pattern to like what i did with bloodsong where i have a book from the series here but not all of them so aragon a subscriber sent me that whole series and i have the first one up here but not the rest i do still have the first uh excuse me the other ones but i just had the first one on the shelf you can see that my dog a long time ago got into that one i'm excited for that one a lot but yeah i have some in here that i've read some i haven't so these are books that i'm i'm excited to get to and i want to get to soon but because i haven't read them i or haven't read most of them i don't want them i just don't want to mislead you guys into thinking that i've read them also i have to have a good laugh it looks like i'm such a sarah j maas fan over here because i have these my friend really likes throne of glass i have read the first three and they're they're just they're fun but i'm never probably gonna have him be favorites or anything but she loves them so much and i love her because she's my friend that i was like oh you know what i want to get back into these and then my husband bought me these awesome additions so that's why i have so many sarah j maas books over there nothing wrong with sarah j maas just want to be clear i think it's awesome anytime i see sarah j maas books and sanderson books on someone's shelf i'm like that's an interesting person that likes both of these so i just yeah nothing wrong with it i know lots of people make people feel bad about liking sarah j maas but i do not care what you read now for the very top i won't get into this too much because i have a mix of books i have read books i haven't read and then different editions so over here i'll just point out the polish editions of mistborn they're so cool i love those books so much over here on this far end we have these beautiful editions a different edition of mistborn the anniversary ones i couldn't believe it i had a subscriber that sent me these they're so cool this is the first law trilogy i love those editions and then we have a foreign edition of way of kings it is awesome i wish there were other editions like that one because it's so cool from all that we go over to the corner where we have the tbr cart and this has a lot of books i'm interested in reading there's also some books on the other side but for example the raven shadow books i had mentioned i just have the first one on the bookshelf so you can see the sequels are there and just in general it's got a lot of books that i want to read at some point and i just didn't have enough room on the shelves that's it for how i currently have my books set up let me know how you like to organize your books you have them set up alphabetically by last name do you have them where all the authors are together but not necessarily alphabetically do you do them by size do you then color what's your method of organization whatever it is i'm not one of those people that's like the stupid and i get people that get upset about how other people organize their books i'm like oh the height of entitlement and privilege you're upset about how somebody's got their books organized what is your life anyway so i hope you had a fun time with this video i hope you have a great rest of your day and i'll see you all later bye

Channel: Elliot Brooks

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Length: 13min 17sec (797 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 05 2021