Book Tube - i have lots of confusions after watching some of it.

This is not a new thing - but i just found out about it couple days ago. 

I usually go on youtube for some kpop *yiey* so, yeah.. ahahah... *awkard*... so when I got to book tube, how happy I was because I thought it would be fun. Apparently, I was wrong. 

And how sad and confusing it is - to me. What is it that confuses me a lot? What is it that saddens me a lot? 

the books

are homogeneous.

they all read the same genre. 

out from 20-ish videos I watched (from various creators), all of them were talking about Fictions. 

maybe those who read other genre doesn't even bother to create a video? maybe... yeah... that is one reason. hem...

the books physical condition

again, are homogeneous.

a pristine, hard cover, special edition, colorful (some even organized the books based on their color hues) books. 

or, to be exact, a nice looking fiction books. 

which brings me to something, 

the fictions book printed in the US seems to have these distinct characteristics:

1. printed in large fonts and margin, ..... which in the end

2. make the book thicker than how it really is.... which evokes a question in me of whether

3. the printing company printed that way, so that it may provide an image of .. a bookworm .. to its reader ... and more

4. it provides a nice book display (?)

at first I thought it was because the book (that i bought) were mostly for young readers. 

oh, so they probably need a larger font, a more eye friendly typography. 

keeping them motivated, yiey! therefore, thicker books, yiey!

but when i knew that young adult novels are printed this way as well, i started to doubt that initial guess...

why not pocket size? why not paper back? would it not be friendlier to mother earth if we print it in a smaller size?

wouldn't it be more convenient to have a pocket size novels that you could bring with you anywhere? for you to read it in the bus, trains, while in traffic, etc.?

however, back to the list. 

book unhaul

they throwing out books - well, technically giving it away / sell it to a thrift store - because these reasons:

1. they don't like it / never finished it

2. they have better cover version of it

3. they don't even know what was it about, and not planning to read it anywhere soon

I understand the fact that after we bought a book, we regret it. Not all books are well written. I have some of those as well.

I also -kind of- understand if you only want to keep the better cover version of a title. which is why publishers keep on re printing books with new covers - there's a niche market for it.

but, 

why would you want to get rid of a book you haven't even read yet?

if it's one book of 5 in the series, that you bought, but then you suddenly lost interest because it has been there for a while, i can understand. 

but if you have the first title of 5 in the series, and then you kind of .. well ... not really in the mood to read it, but then you went to the bookstore, and BOUGHT the second title of the same series...

and ended up not wanting to read it either, and decided to get rid of it.....

*hence, the title of this post*

but then again, we are different, aren't we? my ideology of reading materials are probably just different. and by being different doesn't make me way better than them or them than me. 

so, i guess i just go back to kpop videos instead. 

no more booktube. at least not now. 

oh and maybe pandas. videos about pandas are awesome. 

and puppies. 

The Starter

This is a writing to express my frustration.

As someone who bought stamps mainly for its design, I thought I would not complain about how minimal an information could be delivered in a stamp. But through time, it is kind of boring to only look at how pretty they are without truly understand the occasions on why they were issued.

So why am I getting frustrated? well...

When I buy a GB stamp, I am already aware that they will look like this:

As the first country who issued the first adhesive stamp, GB has rights not to print the country name on any of its releases.
So you could see from above set. Nothing but its value and a print of the young Queen, which cause me - as an amateur - to nearly impossible recognizing the year, the theme, the painter, or anything about this.

Take a look at another stamp from another country here:

What may we obtain from the information presented on those stamps?
First, we know that they are issued in Pakistan, because the country name is there together with its Sanskrit and Arabic inscription.
Second, we know not only the year of issue, but also the exact date. or, at least we could assume it is a date of when it was issued, which July 21st 1969.
Third, we know why this was issued. It is a 5th anniversary, of RCD - back to the future and google some - which stands for Regional Cooperation for Development, a multi governmental organization established in 64 by Turkey Iran and Pakistan. Which is dissolved in 1979.
Fourth, sorry for the low resolution, but these stamps has the pictured items titles.
Fifth, the value.

I know this is the age of information, and I will probably find the details of the flower GB stamp. But sometimes the theme is just so common it could be issued several times, and sometimes the possible match does not provide picture.

however, I was pretty lucky that I able to buy these at the stamp shop where it was sold with its information attached, so yeah, I now know a bit about the previous GB stamp,

so it is a Wild Flowers set from 1979.
*wipe forehead* phew. 

But then, another challenges come,

*screaming*

That, and the fact that i probably have to scan every stamp set with their information, because I don't want to keep them in the cards, mainly because I can't enjoy them instantly - as it overlaps.