@kbhasi

1 year ago

This popped up in my YouTube subscriptions and made me imagine doing a similar thing on my own BookTube channel (if i ever launch it), but knowing my own reading interests, it'd have to look like a children's bookshop.

(11:01) That actually reminded me:

Out of all the physical books in my collection, I have only one book that was a signed edition, and I won it by chance from the author's since-failed first attempt at a newsletter (he had a second attempt which is still going IIRC), plus the author is one whose works I love and the book is the first in a series that I love despite having not read it yet!!

It's the first book in his current graphic novel series (following one that ran for a long time and had its rights acquired for a TV series that was axed… R.I.P.), it included a promotional bookmark promoting the book itself, plus it's only one of two book series I currently have on automatic buy! However, one thing that people would ask me if they see a photo of my bookshelf with that very copy is why it's a paperback while my copies of the rest of the series are hardback copies. (Yes, I prefer hardbacks when buying physical copies of books)

(Addendum: I forgot to mention that I understand that not everyone has signed books, but I found it funny that you decided to just sign your author copy of your own book, which also kinda makes sense as I believe my signed book was one the author pulled from his own box of author copies)

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