Bravo, thank you for your contribution of inspiration during this difficult time! I've just started my collection and you're right it truly starts with one book!

@CoffeeTableBookLounge

3 жыл бұрын

Great! There are a few tools online to help you find books (such as www.justbooks.co.uk)

Great video and very interesting discussion! Really enjoying the mix of content on the channel. Keep it up! I've always been a "collector" of physical media and have a strong preference of it over digital. Whether it's movies (which look and sound much better on-disc than the streaming counterparts), the ability to display the physical media (books or movies), the fact that you own it as a permanent art piece (as we've seen many movies as of late being removed or censored) it furthers the benefits for owning a physical book. With so many going out of print quickly, it can be very hard to view these books otherwise. Your channel is a great solution for that! It can be very discouraging to see books going out of print and prices getting so high, or the push towards digital books, but there's something special about owning the physical hard cover oversized art books like these. The downside, of course, are that these materials may not last forever and the future value of them is yet to be seen. I'm happy to see the quality of these books getting better and better (higher quality papers and inks) which will hopefully let these books last for many years. While I don't think I'll ever be able to retire off of my collection, it's something I do really enjoy and that makes it all worth it for me. If it turns out these books are worth tens or hundreds of thousands in the future.. great! But the number one thing for me is making sure it's a title I enjoy.

@jokkeskoga7549

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Mike, Jokke here! Many thanks for your support in this! You know, we are a team that are totally crazy about collecting books and we want to share what we have, see and feel around this topic. I think you are absolutely right, it is not the value that does what we do. It is the great joy that the gathering brings. Over the years, I have learned to buy more than one copy of the books I love, so I may have the opportunity later in our network to assist if anyone wants.

I do actually have a question for you both, somewhat related to these coffee table sized books. With such a large collection, and many being very oversized (in weight and actual dimensions) and rare/valuable, how do you you store them? I've heard mixed opinions on bookshelves (which is what I use) as they can put extra strain on the spine of these oversized books, causing them to loosen and fail. The recommendation I heard was to lay them flat, but this isn't always possible (especially with such a large collection) Interested to hear how you both manage this? Another question is for any other special protections you do for the environment they're stored in. Do you use a dehumidifier at all (ive heard it's good to keep them from being in an area with too much moisture in the air?), An air purifier or anything else? Do you block outside light out from a room or not worry about that? With the discussion of these being an investment, I'm interested how you both care for them when they're being stored (so I can hopefully learn a few tips!) For me, I keep them in bookshelves standing up, except for a few very oversized books (the 17" ones that don't fit on shelves!) Which lay flat. I keep an air purifier in the book room, but not a dehumidifier, and have blackout curtains to prevent outdoor light from coming in. I use sturdy bookends (the metal, heavy-weighted style) between every 6-7 books just to keep them all standing up straight whenever removing one from the shelf. I have had a few books (mostly the extra wide ones, but also a few very tall ones) which have developed binding issues and began to loosen. Fortunately no important ones, but I do wonder what could be done better/differently, and how you both store yours?

@CoffeeTableBookLounge

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for all the questions! We're going to create a video addressing these points, as they're very important.

Jokke, what kinds of plastic covers you use for your books? Links on where to buy? Thanks.

@CoffeeTableBookLounge

2 жыл бұрын

Hi apee gloria, I use this kind of cover: t1p.de/u3qz Thanks for your comment ))