Small videos about the books in my personal library. Some of the books are beautiful, some are not. Some are new, some are old. Some are in great condition, some are falling apart.
But every one of them is one that I either want to read, or have already read. They all mean something to me.
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I would love to own this edition of book someday🥰 i love folio society editions amd adore this book
Thank you for showcasing these beautiful books and it's contents. I already have Reformation: Europe's House Divided by Diarmaid Macculloch, folio edition. Is the set, really that anti-christian? I ask that because of: ‘I hope that this book will help readers stand back from Christianity, whether they love it or hate it, or are simply curious about it, and see it in the round.’ Neil MacGregor, from his introduction
Not being a Christian myself, I'm not sure that my answer (which is that it's not at all anti-Christian) is helpful. However, Rowan Williams, a former archbishop of Canterbury, gave it an excellent review, and said: "at a time when Christianity's profile in our culture is neither as positive nor as extensive as it has been, this book is crucial testimony to the resilience of the Christian community in a remarkable diversity of social settings." www.theguardian.com/books/2009/sep/19/history-christianity-diarmaid-mccullouch
@@librarybooks Great! Thanks a lot. 🙂
To not have Dostoevsky into these boxes is true CRIME
Volume #44 of the Little Black Classics is Dostoyevsky, so I don't think there was a crime after all.
Great video and explanation!! I have the box set of the Little Black Classics (and a handful of the additional volumes) but now I want the Penguin Modern set! 🤣
I don’t know, I kind of like the idea of using archaic words that no one uses anymore.
Hahah, well, to each their own! I'm sure you're not alone. :)
I first discovered this by accident in the Queensland State Library, and almost made a spectacle of myself as I couldn't contain my laughter as I read it through. So when I saw that the Folio Society had published it, there was absolutely no stopping me from buying it.
I have been looking everywhere I can get them, can you advise me to contact any place to buy? They are out of stock everywhere!! Will you sell them to me?❤❤
Hello, I'm sorry, but I don't know where to find them. I just bought them in one of the usual places, but I can see that they're sold out. As for selling them myself, I don't think I'm ready to do that! Good luck finding them!
@@librarybooks that’s ok. Thank you for your reply. 🌺
Yeah i like these kinda videos instead of reviewa
Thanks!
In 14 edition you can find detailed info about any random topic due to its A-Z layout ,however in 15th it was shortened to 750 word limit with few diagrams in micropedia and portions of it were combined in Macropedia
If they shortened certain topics, then they probably lengthened others, right?
I got this for 43 dollars in Korea! Very cheap for 80 books, and I enjoyed most of them (Im not quite done with all of them lol)
Those set of Beatrix Potter looks pretty cool, like old classic novels, my dad was a book collector for years, he passed away in 2022 at age 83. But he has lots of books 📚 in my house, i guess 5000. I have the complete tales of Beatrix Potter in an big book, it's printed and bounded in Great Britain by William Clowes limited, Beccles and London.
You've reminded me that I also have a single-volume Beatrix Potter. I'll have to make a video of it soon. I envy you your book collection, but of course, I'm sure you'd rather have your dad.
That's a gorgeous book
Thanks for this! I’m thinking about picking up this book. Trying to understand how our culture got to where it’s at
Also, I watched this last night when I should have been sleeping, and woke up today seeing that I had actually ordered it. It’s on its way. I need to watch these when I’m more fully awake 😂 or my bank account is going to end up regretting it.
I can certainly relate to that!
The way people use “literally” literally drives me nuts. Haha. It does make me crazy, but I actually do say something to people when they use it like that. It doesn’t make me any friends, but someone has to fight back against this onslaught of stupidity, haha. And for the record, YES, IT’S WRONG!!! Ok I’m done.
Does it has white nights in it ?
Hello! No, it has the first 80 volumes, but White Nights is number 118.
If the book take pieces of the larger work, are we going to understand it? Like do we know what’s going on in there😂 I was thinking what to buy little black classic or modern classic.
You can understand it. It might be short stories or other writings that are part of collected writings. There are some selections from nonfiction works, and you don't need to know the whole book to understand a chapter.
Just got my copy for my birthday 🥰
I read all the bibliography of John Williams (4 books), he was a great writter.
I love the orange cloth, I wonder if LoA ever did any other unique colors
Thank you I was thinking of getting this book 😊
The Wind In The Willows Folio is absolutely stunning. Wow that's a special piece, its utter perfection.
One of my all time favorites
I like them. I like photos with a lot of texture.
wow it is a library!
seeing your channel, i’m appalled. do u live in a library
Aw, I hope not too appalled! 📚
For library reference
Roughly speaking GEB is examining the phenomenological paradox that arises when you use your own thought process to mechanistically model the origin of your own thought process. He basically argues that the Nature of Consciousness is in some mysterious and distilled sense the self-reinforcing absurdity of Paradox Itself, while trying to actually be somewhat precise about what that means. Since the content of his thesis includes the very impossibility of it being realized, his approach is to take the reader on an extremely powerful tour of cutting edge physical and symbolic science, zoology, cognition, music, visual art, linguistics, the history of computer systems, AI research (as of 1979) and Zen Buddhism, all while generating his own absurd socratic dialogues, logic puzzles, etc. The book is ridiculously playful, rests somewhere between an almanac and a textbook, and is sneakily a deeply religious and vulnerable document. It’s a stone cold work of genius, bet 👌. It’s also soooooo fucking 1970s, in the best possible way. ThErE iS nO fOuNdAtiOn GuYs!!
Another great video, thanks for sharing (it’s always great to see your videos on LOA volumes)! I’ll keep an eye out for this edition, but like all LOA volumes they’re hard to come by in the UK!
Yep, I used to live in the US, but now I'm in Australia and it's a lot tougher to get them!
I think I have about 200 Folio Society books and if I were to do the same thing with my collection Beowulf and Wind in the Willows would also be in my top five. Some other top picks would be Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake (original 1992 edition) and The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth. Their Myths and Sagas collection and the leather bound Dickens collection from the turn of the millennium are also very pretty. They really do make very beautiful books all round.
They really are pretty. As for the other ones that you'd choose, I don't have any of them! I'll have to keep an eye out for them. (I do have a couple of those DIckens editions, though).
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There has to be one volume of this Bible in double column format for both Bible text and commentary, maybe in a large book format in order to contain the entire Tanakh in on volume. This is Bible as literature. Also, the new testament translation by David Hart is Bible as literature. These are not theological translations.
It cracked me up when you said, “I’m a grown-up…”
I’m just trying to convince myself that it’s true. 😅
This has been sat on my shelf for years, didn’t know it was going for over a hundred bucks 😂
Hmm, it came out in 2018. I don’t think it was ever cheaper than $100 new.
@@librarybooks oh no kidding. I got it from an Amazon returns thing for like 8 bucks. I only lifted it bc it looked cool. Ima sell it and give the money to a good cause
@@Jesus420.69 You got a three-volume set of Alter's Hebrew Bible for $8? Well, that's an amazing deal.
Being no fan of ,as of an example, ,Reader’s Digest’ , you saved meself some research. Indeed informative, thanks!
Godel's "Theorem" is a complete farce and absolute bullshit. Godel assigns a unique number to all the symbols in real numbers via the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra: e.g., the syntactical symbols "+", "-", "x" (multiplication) as well as the actual numbers and powers (e.g. 3^2). By his criteria, a "proof" consists of a tautology on each side of the equal sign. At first, one might think the statement "3 + 4 = 7" is a "proof", since it can be reduced to a sum of units on either side. But that would be a contradiction, according to Godel, because "3 + 4" has a different Godel Number than "7". So the only "proofs" for Godel are G(wff) = G(wff); any other statement is a contradiction by Godel Number. I call BS - a giant twittering machine built on nothing, see my pdfs on physicsdiscussionforum dot org Remember, you read it here first... :)
good book!
Where can I buy this book? I am from India..
This is a lovely story by Josephine Tey. I’d read a couple of her others first…just to get to know her star detective. The story holds together a little bit better as you are comfortable with his character.
These books are wonderful. Well worth the time.
Great video, thank you!
George Madison Priest is my favorite translation, folio society is usually really good with translations so I’m surprised they went with David Luke. Walter Kaufman is a great one too. Great looking book tho!
I prefer mary shelleys the last man to. Frankenstein, Great video tho
I just started Walden the other day and I’m enjoying it so far! Love your videos, I find them relaxing when I just need a quiet night.
Thank you very much for that comment. You've made my day. :)
Maus is in tha house
that such a book even has to exist ...
I know what you mean. But at the same time, I think the book could be valuable and interesting even if everyone already believed it. It would just have a different title!
@@librarybooks There are alot of those books with the same topic but a different title and composition. But this one here could alternatively be named "Biology 101 - Evolution for dummies"
Thank you, this was really helpful
Thanks for saying so!
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Would ❤ to read. My ancestors were concicts in tassie.
Cheers I have this book. It's very well sourced. 1 thing the author is known for it's being very academic.