I'm basically a hoe for organization. And so
Being able to organize all of these really gets me going
Hi friends, my name is Joel and welcome back to my booktube channel.
If you have yet to check out my July wrap-up and August TBR video
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For today's video. I have basically been procrastinating
organizing my bookshelves for the longest time
I mean those of you who have subscribed since, um,
My KOREADATHON vlog--I think it was--where I repainted my entire room
you know that it's been basically
almost a month since I have had my books off my shelf and it has
bugged me for quite some time
And so I think for now I think it should be good for me to just organize my books into some sense of order
I've yet to build my
wall shelves. Once I do them, I think i'll be able to organize my books again into something a bit more
aesthetic but I think for now I just want my books on the shelf so that I have a nice backdrop to my videos
so my methodology
for doing my bookshelf organization is as follows:
graphic novels and also books on writing craft are going on my desk shelf,
books with sprayed edges are going to be stored to the side for now because I eventually want to organize them on my trolley,
Although there are a few exceptions to this rule. One such exception is Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
because I do want to have that displayed on my shelf until I get the collector's editions on there
They're on my wish list. I just need to purchase them at some point
I also need to get the very first book in hardback so that I have the black sprayed edge on there, too.
So I think i'm just going to organize it by author's surname and then i'll have my favorite shelf. I think here or here.
I don't know. I don't know but I'll figure it out as I go along.
But I just think it's quite a nice casual video today.
I hope you will grab your beverages and that you are fully relaxed
And yeah
um, I also had a lot of
recommendations from you all about how I can like spruce up my bookshelves as well and make it a bit more presentable
Which was amazing, and I definitely think in the future as well
I'll get more items to add to my collection so that when we eventually reorganize my bookshelf again, because
we know how I get with my shelves. Um . . . but, yes, grab a beverage of your choosing and
let's get to organizing. Okay. Hi, everyone. We are now in like a little organizational zone. Um, so
*environmentally-kind-straw-clinking-in-aesthetic-beverage sounds*
Okay
Step one to organizing your books is sorting them out into different categories.
So, I want to basically move the sprayed edges away from all of these books. I want to move
my favorite books away from each other.
I also want to move books into paperbacks and hardcovers.
But, I also finally finally want to organize my books on Goodreads.
So, what I'm going to be doing is: as i'm going through all of these books,
I'm going to be cataloging all of them onto Goodreads.
I think I'm just going to make an exclusive shelf called "owned" for now because I don't think I would want to
properly catalogue them at the moment.
Otherwise my mind would go insane. I'm gonna be using my Macbook to do so, because I would use the Goodreads
scan feature, however, I'm using my phone to record. This is one of those times where I think having a camera would have been
really great because then I can use my phone, but that is something I can get eventually.
I am basically a ho for organization
and so . . .
being able to organize all of these really gets me going. Once I've done all of that,
I will then know how many books I roughly own, because a lot of my books are also at university
so I'm gonna be able to see as well, like once I've organized my uni books as well,
how many books I own in total. I didn't haul a lot of books like years back
so I definitely don't have as much of a collection as I used to
I think I'm currently at like
160, I want to say, books I'm gonna get to cataloging. I'm gonna go on to Goodreads.com
We're gonna make this shelf right now.
Okay, the "own" shelf has been created,
and so I'm gonna get to adding
all of these books onto the shelf, and also organizing them as and when. So, let's get started.
This book is just super gorgeous and it has a sprayed edge as well and
mmm
I like the Outlander T.V. show and I've always wanted to read the books. However, I find these paperbacks are just super tiny and
and the font is also really like
small as well for like a book of this sheer size. I wanted to get like the bigger paperback versions. However, they're like . . .
more expensive and so eventually i'll get the bigger paperback versions, but for now i'm just gonna settle with these ones.
One thing I also want to do is when I eventually get all of Alice Oseman's novels,
I might put them on one of my shelves as like a little collection thing.
I think that would look really nice. I need to get the rest of her novels because they are really colorful.
Alice Oseman's definitely an author whose books I do want to collect and I know Chanelle (chanelletime on youtube)
really advocates about Radio Silence and my friend Tia does as well so I think radio silence might be one that I pick up quite soon.
Oh my god.
Cramp. Cramp in my leg. Cramp in my leg.
Truthwitch. I know they've recently brought out new covers of Truthwitch and I think it's in a boxset as well
so it's definitely one that I'm contemplating continuing on because when I first read Truthwitch, it was like a five-star read for me
um, or was it a four? It was a four/five-star read for me
so I definitely think I want to
continue again with this series.
Also, with my Children of Blood and Bone editions, a lot of you have been commenting on that I have multiple editions . . .
I own
two copies of the UK
Waterstones exclusive edition. I own one copy of the normal paperback.
The UK ARC. I also own the US ARC, the
hardback, the
Barnes & Noble exclusive hardback. I think that's it. I know they've now come out with a hardback
boxset of the When Dimple Met Rishi series
So, I definitely think that's one I'm looking to get in the future as well because then I can
own this entire series in hardback. But yeah, I remember reading this back in like
2017/2018 and I just really liked it. And I know this now has an adaptation that's coming out
err . . . called "Mismatched" which sounds really exciting and I'm just really happy for Sandhya Menon
for getting an adaptation of this gorgeous book. My friend Caitlin and I both bought this book
and she managed to read it before I did. And she (Karen M. McManus) has a new book coming out this year called The Cousins which just sounds
really intriguing
and i'm very looking forward to The Cousins.
I really . . . *sound-of-paperback-betraying-Joel's-trust-by-falling-on-his-Macbook*
I really enjoyed reading Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake and
I am just super excited to see what happens in the rest of the series because I read the sequel, One Dark Throne,
and I really enjoyed it and I really want
the rest of these covers because there's three covers for Three Dark Crowns, like three different ones.
The US Hardbacks are also super gorgeous. Again, would highly recommend reading this series.
I own this really cute edition of Anne of Green Gables and Ellias (also on Youtube) recently binged the entire Anne With an E show
and I haven't yet done that, but I think I'm going to be rereading Anne of Green Gables soon.
and then watching the show for the very first time so I can give him my reactions because he wants them it's going to be
Super cool and it's definitely one that I think if I can read during this month, I will
otherwise
it's probably going to be
next month that I read Anne of Green Gables because I also want to read Such A Fun Age this month because
We are doing a live show at the end of the month for the unfriendly black hotties book club, which is exciting
I'll have the unfriendly black hotties links in the description down below,
but I hope you'll all come and join us at the end of the month for the live show.
It should be super exciting and super fun as well. But yeah
This is just a gorgeous addition and it's definitely one of the collections that I want to um, continue
because . . . That's not gonna fall.
I recently have been getting into Notion which is like this really cool
organizational software and so I now have a section in Notion where I have all of like my book collections in place
because I also want to collect the Penguin English Library edition because I made this
Joke tweet on twitter that if I collected the entirety of the Penguin English Library
I would read them all and then tier rank them all for you.
But now I kind of actually want to do it, so . . .
I also need to re-buy this book because the other books in the series are smaller.
I'm slowly encasing myself in books . . .
Fun, right.
I have wanted this book for the longest time,
However, I was actually gifted this today. Which was amazing. Um, but
I really want the hardcover version of Red, White, and Royal Blue.
However, it's only available through Book of the Month. And, as we all should be aware,
Book of the Month doesn't ship to the United Kingdom and so . . . .
Yeah, um eventually maybe i'll get one but for now . . .
. . . Yeah
I have yet to read The Cruel Prince as well
but it's definitely one that I have been told to read by a lot of people,
but I haven't got the second or third book yet,
but I think I want to get both of them first and then binge the entire series as a whole, because I think
it would be quite good once I do that. These are the Penguin Little Black Classics.
They're one pound (GBP) each and they're just really small and really cute.
They're also another set of books that I want to own as well because I just think they'll look really nice and
especially when I just want to pick something really quick up. I can just be like, oh, okay, I want to read . . .
The Fall of Icarus or I can be like, oh, um Goblin-
-Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti.
English students, you know. I think every English student goes through Goblin Market at some point in their
career as a english academic and . . .
Face licking.
That's all I'm gonna say.
The Chronicles of Ixia are also a series I've been meaning to get into for the longest time.
However, I haven't just found, one, the time, or two, the dedication to read a six book series on top of everything else that I want to do.
So I'm just like . . . hmm. I think i'll get round to it
Eventually, but for now I can just have them all look cute on my shelf.
I have the first book in this series. I have the third book in this series,
but I am missing the second book in this series.
I don't know what was going through my head when I decided to buy the third book instead of the second book.
But, here we go.
These editions are . . .
questionable I'm personally more of a fan of the US editions. However . . .
I have these ones these ones were
weirdly left to me. There was a box outside my door that just said "Take Me"
and so I did. I still don't know who gave me these books to this day, but
I have them. I think I do prefer the US editions and I do want to get the US editions at some point.
Oh my god. We're on the very last pile.
We're done
We are done. Done. Done. Done.
So that took me an hour and 25 minutes,
but, now all of my books are sorted onto my Goodreads in the "Owned" section, so
Now comes the fun part. Which is part two. I have all of my books organized in piles depending on size
or um . . .
*laughing* or *crying* (maybe both)
the type of book they are. So I have smaller hard covers, mass market paper packs, bigger hardcovers and bigger paperbacks here
and then just like normal size paperbacks and stuff around.
So, I just need to kind of figure out how i'm going to arrange them on the shelf
and where i'm going to put them on the shelf. I'm definitely thinking this is going to be my favorites shelf
Where I put a lot of my favorite books. Going down the list from here down,
I think I'm literally just gonna do big hardcovers, then small hardcovers, then paperbacks.
So we'll see how that goes. We'll see what happens.
But yeah, I definitely think I will probably change this up at some point because I definitely want to try and get rainbow shelves,
but I don't know if I have the color capacity yet to do that. I think I definitely want to get some more brighter books
That look really nice and I definitely want to get books that will make my bookshelf pop a bit more.
Like completing the Penguin English Library collection maybe.
And then the penguin drop caps editions, though.
They are gorgeous. They are so gorgeous and I definitely want to collect those as well at some point.
I just have a lot of book collections that I want to collect like,
having something that you want to collect
just gives me a lot of passion because it sets a goal and you can see immediate progress with each thing that you get
So it's definitely something that I thrive off and definitely something that I like to enjoy, but yeah
Let's get putting these on the shelf then.
♪ In Her Garden by Syphax playing ♪
So, yeah
I am super happy with how I've organized my shelves
I think they definitely look a lot cleaner and a lot more full now. I just need to add some
Extra touches, but I think I'm not gonna do that today because it is six o'clock and I'm a hungry . . .
person. I did get the Daevabad pin that I ordered from Fabled Merch in today
And it just looks so beautiful. It says "Be careful what you wish for". So I think it's definitely gonna . . .
Sit for now. Where the Daevabad trilogy is and yeah, I really like my bookshelves
Definitely, my bookshelves are going to change again
once I get the wall shelves up and I kind of figure out where I want everything. Like I think my romance books
Are probably gonna go on one of the um, two wall shelves as well just so that they have their own space.
It's nice to have books back on my shelf again because it just makes my room seem a lot more lived in and full.
Um, I don't know how I'm gonna organize my Goodreads shelves yet,
but if you have any suggestions pop them down in the comment section down below.
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