BookTube. It’s a Thing.

As I’ve started to shift gears to reading more books than comic books, I’ve come across something (a phenomenon?) called BookTube.

BookTube is not a separate site. From what I can tell it’s all on YouTube. Unsurprisingly, the people apart of this digital subculture refer to themselves as BookTubers.

So what does a BookTuber do? This is what I’ve witnessed:

• They talk about the books that they have read
  • Sometimes this all the books they have read for the month
  • Sometimes one post is dedicated to a single book
  • Sometimes its a themes like: Great Sci-Fi Novels, or My Least Favorite Popular Books
• They create and participate in Tags
  • It’s basically a questionnaire that they respond to in a video.
• They do bookshelf tours
• They review their book hauls
• They offer advise for new BookTubers
• They spend a lot of time editing (ok, I haven’t witnessed this, but it seems…