Re: Seneca et al, you’re still paying for the translator and new typesetting even for works in the public domain.

Paperbacks are usually my preferred reading editions because i love to mark up my books. I love the vintage international paperbacks, but I gotta say the nyrb editions are stunning. Can't wait to buy a few and get into some of the more niche authors they promote.

It's not low effort at all! I love these kind of videos! Keep going

@brentstrykertalksalot

Ай бұрын

Thank you Mr. Stoner

Great video! I agree with you on the Oxford World Classics and Vintage picks. They’re my two favorite paperback publishers.

These are some of my fave videos!

discovered nyrb when I started reading Junger. He might become my favourite author soon and their editions are so nice.

I think for the Kierkegaard one, you're paying for the translator, so that's probably it. But yeah I can understand the frustration.

I am a great lover of paperbacks, definitely prefer them over hardbacks. My favourites are Faber & Faber editions as I really enjoy the slightly thicker pages and nice typeset. My other favourite is Fitzcarraldo, but that is mainly book selection which very much alligns with my personal taste in literature

Love a good soft flop! 📖

I love book series with cover and spine consistency! The Collins Classics and the Wordsworth classics are my favourite VFM paperbacks.

nyrb will forever be my favorite looking books. i have purposely researched their catalog just so i could have reason to put their books sooner on my tbr books. favorite authors so far have been renata adler and john williams

The long ships is not a book you see on youtube often! Its a popular classic here in Sweden original title being Röde Orm (red Orm). Im reading it right now and its really funny, a humorous tale of pagan times. The language is so good in the original im wondering how it would sound in translation.

I'm relieved to see you posting: your channel is an excellent and singular voice in this BookTube world. Even if you post something light, or merely a thought on a half-formed idea, I'm often just here to hang out with a bookish friend.

Honestly, I rlly loved this video hahah just very personal and caring

Just found this channel. Automatically in the top 4 of booktube

@azazeln

23 күн бұрын

Do tell the other 3! I'm in search of quality content

@prilljazzatlanta5070

22 күн бұрын

@@azazeln Tristan and the Classics, Benjamin McEvoy, Drunzo, and an honorable mention to Spinsters Library

@azazeln

22 күн бұрын

@@prilljazzatlanta5070 Benjamin is one of my favourite youtubers, analytical and insightful. Tristan is one I've been following for a while and I like a lot. But I didn't know Drunzo and now I'm binge watching his, rather small, library of videos! Thank you!

@prilljazzatlanta5070

22 күн бұрын

@@azazeln Drunzo has few videos but has all the excitement of this gentleman. He loves non fiction too and i like that he rarely posts. No gimmicks like reading challenges

I can’t help but notice how all the English editions of books have their sides written in one direction I am not sure how to explain. The thing I am triggered the most in Bulgarian editions is that the sides are always in random and when you look at the bookshelf it is distracting and you start shifting your head left to right….

Love the NYRB editions too, though haven’t picked up any as they’re quite pricy here in Australia (understandable as the quality is top tier).

Hi! You're really cool. Thank you for sharing :)

Love a Joseph Conrad book, there really is something strange with Sailors being great writers.

@brentstrykertalksalot

Ай бұрын

The prose reminds me of Melville in a lot of ways too, very poetic & rich in language. Crazy too how English was Conrads second language! And what he wrote in!

Keep up the low effort because it is 👏🏼

I guess when you're not much help to the crew and it takes days/weeks to get where you're going, all you can do is write.