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Folio Society books hold little value to those who do not collect Folio Society books. If you are using eBay to determine what your Folio Society books are worth then you are way off the mark. There are 150 million active users of eBay and probably closer to triple that who look at items daily and yet I see items, books in this case, that are posted and reposted for months on end at these supposed values. The true value is not the price it is listed on eBay nor is it the value that someone with some extra money in their pocket might have paid for a similar book three months ago on eBay, but what you can get for the book right now. Which is not much for these books unless you can find a Folio Society collector and they are not paying eBay prices or there would not be so many on eBay being reposted every other week. If you enjoy them, buy them, but do not buy them as an investment, at least not one you will see a return on.

So fun to watch!! I’m going to Japan in November and I can’t wait!! 💕 I’m sorry you didn’t have a restful trip but, I hope you still had a lot of fun! I love your stamp book! What camera did you say you used for the little pictures?

Fascinating trip. 👍😀

I absolutely everything about this video! These books sound really interesting and I aspire to be zero-waste. Question: I’ve tried shampoo bars and they always leave a slimy residue on my shower shelves. How do you prevent that with your bars? Also, I’m in the USA and when I was young, I had friends who used to shoot BB guns at stray cats and I would cry so hard and try to get them to stop and their parents would almost always say, “They’re just putting them out of their misery… They’re diseased anyway…” etc. I hated and still hate that. 💔

What a whirlwind!

wonderful🤗😊😊😊

I love watching unhauls!! Also, I’m currently collecting the books and graphic novels for Firefly. 😅 I rewatch the series once a year and I always want more so I decided to pick up the books and graphic novels.

New to your channel but a great video and concept. As someone who worked near that bridge XR camped on it was actually only a couple of hundred rather than thousands despite what they may claim in their book. The shocking thing I found was the absolute mess they left , for others to clean up I might add which also included a surprising amount of disposable plastics.Not always practising what they preach in my experience.

Can you tell me please where you got the limited edition of Good Omens? Who was the publisher? And also who put the Guards Guards limited edition? They are both amazing!

Some of us love your old,old , titles! If i collected ellis peters I'd have pounced on that one.

I bought a gift card extra now they are not refunding it. So if anyone wanna buy then tell its 75£

Favourite this quarter has probably been Post Office by Charles Bukowski, it was funny and dark.

Ran across you a enjoyed your tour. Sounds like my kind oftown!❤🇨🇦

I am watching this! And a bit spooky I saw that book in the thrift today and considered buying it so I can reread it

Based on size, it looks like your Locke Lamora edition is likely a Book Club Edition, does it have a price on the jacket flap or a number line on the publishers page?

Enjoyed your romp through Hay-on-Wye, and your book haul reveal.

I really appreciate that you showed more of the town and surroundings in general. What a lovely, fun place to do your birthday book shopping. Used Folio Society books! (This American is drooling.) I think you will enjoy In Cold Blood; I certainly did. It was a Book of the Month Club offering many, many years ago and she chose it then. Gee, I just love your "Sod's Law" expression. I don't think we have an equivalent here in the U.S. So glad you were able to fill in the blanks of your Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters. That must have made you incredibly happy. So jealous. I'm sure you very much enjoyed your 2024 birthday.

I have some Library of America collections. Since they usually combine multiple titles as one book. And they collect authors im a fan of. Ive got the Raymond Chandler, Dashell Hammet, Elmore Leonard and Ross MacDonald sets. All of which are two HC each collecting either the ehole output or key novels. I love Discworld but i just have those much smaller HC from. Few years ago. And mainly the City Watch ones

I just started getting some books from The Folio Society. I am not getting them as an investment or a collector's object, I buy them because i like reading high-quality books, and I want the books to last long enough for my kids to possibly inherit them after me :-)

Nicely done! A clickbait version of your title: Audiobooks aren't real reading!?!!

The resale value of Folio Society books depends on whether there's a 'fan base' for the particular author which you may have touched on, that tends to mean fantasy books keep or hold their value as people do become fans of these books in a way that they don't really for, say literary fiction, and will pay a lot for all kinds of memorabilia. Conversely I bought a four volume set of the complete Mapp & Lucia books for £8 in perfect condition (no slip case) which is what you'd pay for the cheapest new paperback so that was a bargain. I've sold two Folio Society special editions and got more or less what I paid for them so they seem to hold value at least.

Some Folio Society books are insane investments like Birds Drawn for John Gould

I personally don't spend the money on SE books, but I think it's worth it because of investing. The prices will go up double or triple in a few years. I prefer to invest in guns so that's where my money goes, but if it wasn't guns, it'd be LE and SE books!

Like a ditz I completely forgot to actually say the titles of the books I read. They are shown on screen, but it didn't occur to me that you wouldn't necessarily know the titles from the covers alone. So anyway they are: The Golden Fool by Robin Hobb. The Guest List by Lucy Foley. Atonement by Ian McEwan. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Dead Man's Ransom by Ellis Peters. System Collapse by Martha Wells. We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets. The Sacrifice of Darkness by Roxane Gay. Heartstopper vol 5 by Alice Oseman. The Con Artists by Luke Healy. The Pilgrim of Hate by Ellis Peters. Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher. A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett. The Temple of Fortuna by Elodie Harper. The Future by Naomi Alderman. The Sinking Admiral by members of the Detection Club. Approach by Jason A. Hurley. Rogues by various authors. Frontier by Grace Curtis. Once Upon A Crime by Fergus Craig. Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang. Goodbye Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto. 1984 by George Orwell.

when is the festival?? I'd love to go.

some good ones on there! I must have recommended a million little pieces a long time ago now, I don't even really remember it well anymore. a memoir which was later exposed for being a bit too fictiony. Immortal life of HL is great. and love me some Steinbeck. I think you'll do all 40.

I collect for two reasons: 1) have a robust library in the same way one would have a robust art collection or music collection, and 2) for preservation. I just want quality hardcovers for my books so they have a lifetime beyond mine--my intention is to have my library established as a local collection for a university when I'm gone (assuming my family doesn't want it). I usually get Folio Society for books that don't have hardcover reprints readily available. So, I didn't buy _Jurassic Park_ because I already have a trade HC from the 90s in Very Good condition. But I did buy their _Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas_ because I don't have a first edition and the only hardcover I have is a Modern Library edition that's a twelvemo in size, so I wanted something larger and sturdier. I'm lucky because where I live somebody keeps dumping Franklin Library and Heritage Press editions at the local used bookstore so I've been able to get quality hardcovers from the 50s-80s for pocket money that most other patrons don't want. I'm also lucky in that Library of America, Modern Library and Everyman's Library titles also get dropped off regularly. I've probably saved thousands of $ on books getting them there (although I DID miss out on an EL Highsmith Ripley trilogy because I didn't get it when I had the chance). I don't usually go for collector's editions that are deliberately made for to scarcity chasers. FOMO is real, but it only has one hand on my shoulder.

It's a great book challenge. Now that you have identified the books, and you have the goal, don't you need to devise a plan of action? Non fiction can be read alongside fiction, but I think you need a strategy that is fun and sustainable. This would make a great series for your channel.

Not sure I should be watching this when I already have problems adding more to my TBR. I looove non-fiction and history and just keep adding more and of course none of them are short and digestible. I have a goal this year (2024) to get through the bulk of my backlog. Am also approaching the big 4-0 next year but my big year of reading was just a coincidence and being frustrated at not burning down my TBR. A bit surprised you didn't have to read 1984 in school! Good luck with your goal!

Thanks for sharing. Great video. Folio type books are all too often the preserve of buyers with no particular interest in Frankenstein where their primary interest is all too often one of trying to flip books for a profit on eBay. So it’s easy to spot the amateurs who don’t know what they’re doing and don’t understand the needs of the real market. It’s actually easy to make money from Frankenstein if that’s what motivates people but that takes a huge amount of knowledge and experience which is well outside of the remit of opportunists with little to no interest in the genre which explains why so many traders on Ebay are stuck with stock they can’t shift. These being the same people operating side hustles who aren’t paying tax and have absolutely no scruples about charging silly prices for books available direct from publishers for a fraction of the cost where sellers think they can treat collectors like a bunch of mugs which is an incredibly naive business model. Many new books have lovely covers, but the days of publishing Frankenstein merely as Frankenstein with decorative illustrations has been flogged to death to the point where it misses the needs of the real market and has instead become so distorted as to have created a sub-market for opportunists with little to no interest in the genre. So now we have two different markets. - One that revolves around the needs of genuine collectors and the other around the needs of those just looking to make money with very little success in doing so where they have little to no interest in either Mary Shelley or Frankenstein

Well, from Folio Society my Ulysses (2022) has gone up by at least $250 or so, from it's original $750, my Lord of the Rings 2022 edition, has doubled to $3000, some listed for $4K or more. My Moby Dick from 2009 has gone up 10 fold... $300 to $3000.. and even my Easton Press Don Quixote 2015 Limited went from $250 to $1000... so I'd say if you're buying the correct book.. it's a big YES..

I am a big book collector. I have way above 3.000 books in my library. Plenty of Folio in it. Do I buy as an investment? Hell no. Plenty of better investments in securities. Books as investment need to be rarities and those attract very high prices and are bought by a restrict buyers market. Folio are high quality books, and that is why they are pricier than a paperback. But unless you are buying a LE signed buy the author or illustrator, and even there, they are not investments. I buy them when I like a particular book and I want a more beautiful edition in my shelfs.

I doubt the majority of Folio books would be worth much in our lifetimes. It's our children and grand children that might benefit. There will be some that will likely have instant value, or within a few years. Maybe 2-3% of books. If you could live for a thousand years, then probably all of them. Assuming they survive in reasonable condition.

Not a fan of Folio editions at all.

I don't necessarily collect for investment as such, however, like you I do love building my collection of books I love. If they retain value at the very least, I would be happy long term. For me it is purely the pleasure of owning something special. I collect 1st editions, signed 1st editions and 1st printings. All my Folio Society books are 1st printings or special editions. Having said that, I have become aware just in the last month that a number of my books have seen dramatic value increases. I have to now start considering how I am going to store them going forward.

welcome to the booktube community 🥰

Hi, welcome to booktube! I love seeing solve along murder mystery videos and am potentially going to try and get a Christmassy one done this month if I get time! I'll have to take into account how time intensive they can be. Best of luck with the channel 😊

What a gorgeous tree. Welcome to Booktube.

Haven't seen this book done by anyone else yet, this was fun! Your cat is adorable 💖