BookTube

Some experts and parents have been complaining that video sharing platforms like YouTube affect the young people negatively. However, there are also some beneficial uses of video-sharing platforms. Young people can also learn things and share their opinions with others. Internet can bring people with same hobbies together. A great example for that is definitely BookTube.

When you think about YouTube Videos you would probably think about beauty experts, make-up tips, gaming tutorials and some fashion videos. No one thinks of books. You may think that YouTube and books don’t sound like a good match. But actually it is. Even though people read alone, they like to share their opinions about the books they read with others and BookTube is the place for that.

So what exactly is BookTube? BookTube is the unofficial name given to a collection of YouTube channels that discuss everything about books. Each day, thousands of online creators, or BookTubers, share videos about books they like (or don’t like), literacy and everything related to reading. You get the idea! Some of them act out the stories, some make videos with animation and some of them just simply talk about the books.

Some BookTubers have become famous. They have hundreds of thousands of followers. They earn a lot of money from their channels. Christine is one of them. She began about nine years ago. She has more than 400,000 followers. She also wrote books herself. BookTubers are not only adults. There are also young people making videos about books.

You may see that BookTubers have their own language. For example DNF means a book you did not finish or TBR is books to be read. They also have events or challenges. They aim for more people to read and people to read more. They have challenges when they read for 24 hours or to read as many books as they can in a week. The Reading Rush is one of them. People who love reading and share that passion online participate in the event. For it tens of thousands of people come together to read at the same time as other readers around the world. Instead of people stopping using the Internet to read for a while, they stop reading to go online.