Brooklyn’s Most Cluttered Bookstore
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- čas přidán 16. 03. 2016
- John Scioli, the owner of the Community Bookstore, in Brooklyn, prepares to shutter a neighborhood institution.
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Brooklyn’s Most Cluttered Bookstore
Producer: Paul Szynol - Krátké a kreslené filmy
it's not that he's a hoarder but he needs a bigger bookstore to have room for all the books. If he was a hoarder then all the people who own bookstores are hoarders.
No way he can afford another store. And no way he could qualify for a loan to get one. No doubt he has regulars, but they are not going to make him rich. Selling books is not profitable these days. Why do you think Amazon expanded its fare?
Yeah if he kept it organized/neat and had room for all of it (bc all he needed was a bigger store) then he wouldn’t be considered a “book hoarder”
there's something beautiful about this
ahyaok100 😏I know right!
You only need food and time to just read. Is kind of beautiful.
Jeff Baker: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To a book lover, books are beautitful. If it were me, I would stack the books & other media a little more carefully, so they don't get damaged and maybe keep more careful records of what I had, but that's it.
In our current world, I would say it’s beautifully archaic.
Not to me. Those books are rotting away because they can’t be properly stored and then bought. What customer will find x book in the bottom of that pile
I would have so much fun organizing that store.
Krystal Utkin Looking your photo I believe it 😁.
What does my photo have to do with anything?
You look like a librarian )) , ready to kill who touches that books . :) I am joking!
Lol thanks?
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You don’t go there to find a book, the books finds you.
Cringe. Try writing something original.
@@nicb.1411 Troll hunter says: "Found one!"
I see art and passion. I hope he opened another bookstore.
Same. God bless you cheers
if there was an indie movie about this guy and his bookstore, i would watch the heck out of it.
Imagine growing up in a family where education was so valued that your basement was like this. Too amazing.
This makes me sad. I grew up in Cobble Hill and would pass this bookstore all the time. I remember buying a book here for a school report. Sure the place was messy, but it had its charm and felt like part of the neighborhood. Like a landmark almost. Of course the neighborhood has changed so much since I hardly recognize it anymore. I wish him the best of luck.
The fascinating thing is it looks like chaos to us but the owner knows where everything is. Amazing.
My godfather had a record store that looked like this...the store was called Platterworld in Garfield NJ. It no longer exists...he passed away. I love this type of store.
Robert Varner I lived a block away.
Scioli didn't sell the bookstore. He sold the BUILDING ... for $5.5M.
Good for him
I need to tidy that shit up..
The community should gather to help and declutter these books. They were treasures 🥺🥺
my home ın the future
Sex Pistol oh my God you think like me ...I will tell you what I will do I will make a full storey of my house a library most likely the basement because it's better
This is my paradise!
😍❤ yes!!
Wanna invite me sometime?
Two appalling things about this: the closure of the store and that reporter's clothes.
The reporter's clothes are great tho
Wait what? 😂what do you have against bow ties 😮🤷♀️
He loves it and he hates it...I can relate to that😃 Those books are beautiful but they sure are a burden, he needs a break💚 Bless his heart, I'm sure he's such an important human being.
You love the job of a bookseller
OMG, Community Bookstore was what I Ioved best about living in adjacent Carroll Gardens decades ago! Few weekends went by when I did not spend a couple hours in the quiet shop -- at that time, admittedly not as densely packed as shown in this video. My favorite finds were unusual cookbooks and hardcover editions of novels I had loved first in paperback, some of which sit on my bookshelves today. I did throw up a little in my mouth when a Google search revealed the storefront is a real estate office now. However, the words of the dark-haired woman with the short haircut ring very true: we can't expect these special kinds of shops to be around forever and we should strive to create them anew. Wishing all the best to Mr. Scioli!
Omg my heart 💔💔💔 i want to work there for free just to be with that much of books. Can anyone tell me where all the books went after closing 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
miss marple to organize it,it kinda drives me crazy (i will even do it for free)
I was there, mostly in the trash. There was a large container of books maybe 20 by 8 feet where he threw them out, and they were all free at that point. It was a really amazing place.
Agreed!
James Kettle that is so sad.
@@jameskettle9181 that is just sad.
Well thanks for making me horribly sad tonight youtube
I know, huh? Im sad too.
Part of me wants to get rich and buy him all the space and or bookcases thar he needs
Kudos to John who saves these treasures, and to the donators who have enough love/respect for the written gendre to bring them to him instead of a trashpile. Book reading is a dying art, and may be eliminated altogether in the face of new technologies. And yes, I have shelves of beloved books I will never trash.
Very romantic, the idea of such a place as this. A place so small where you could get lost in more ways then one. It's a place of refuge and a den of chaos. A mystical sense of self buzzes within one whose unimaginable appetites for solitude will indeed go unsatiated. Some unknown voice speaks to any of us, begging at the precipice of wonder that we would relinquish our grasp of clenched fists whom cling to life so dearly. To take the plunge into this unfamiliar unfathomable chasm... It is awe inspiring. Can you imagine?
Books in huge lots are among my favorite things!!!! Thank God for books!! :-)
I have a bookstore in my city close to me, that is very similar to this. I love going there because you can find absolute treasures of books there you din’t know you needed. The owner used to also know where everything was! Now a group of volunteers own it since it’s an absolute gem.
Collette & co - The Hague, The Netherlands
Oh look, my bedroom's on the Internet
This reminds me of a very similar, massive used book store in Long Beach, CA called Acres of Books. The Long Beach store was much more organized though. It featured extremely tall shelves stacked on top of each other, and each stacked shelf was packed tight with what was reported to be over a million books. It was kind of scary going in there. Ray Bradbury spent many, many hours at the store, and he even name-checked Acres of Books in his essay, “I Sing the Bookstore Eclectic.”
YOU ARE A BRILLIANT, BEAUTIFUL BEING! THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO! WOW!
Its beautiful. I think i would've been drooling over the place. Its freakin gorgeous. Well its gorgeous to a booklovers eyes. 💖
the makes me so happy and i can't explain why... it's chaotic but beautiful?
and the owner is defo someone i would want to have a chat with !!
alacarteno 👏
AMEN!
He looks like someone with plenty of wisdom to share.
If the owner gives me the chance to organise this, i would not hesitate to do so without any delay. This man is incredible intellectual person and these books are a treasure, huge treasure. I wish i could know him and be connected.
This is so sad that bookstore had a soul.
It didn't have a soul but im sure it has asbestos somewhere.
I like it being like that though. You can go in there and just wait for a book to call out to you. Like looking for buried treasure.
Every bookworm who goes der ..will definitely cry..
Love this. Yes, books everywhere... something so inviting about this too. I would be so excited when finding a new treasure.. a Sunday afternoon treat!
this shop is a sound engineers dream. it's a perfect isolation booth
I rewatch this every month or so lol love it!
That place is like heaven for me
The amount of vocal fry in this video is outstanding!
These are my favorite type of bookstores...
He seems like gentle caring soul❤ bless him ! Hope he’s doing well now
I feel so bad, I want to work for him for free and help him!
What happens to all the books?
They were delicious.
There's a bookstore like this about a minute away from where I live( also in NY) and I've only been in there a few times but it's so weird and cool.
that is how a general bookstore should be
visit the Dogtown Bookstore in Gloucester Massachusetts. very similar set up. also, what did he do with all the books when he closed his store?
I've been to Gloucester Mass. Its a beautiful place. My Uncle owned the Traveler boat that sat in the harbor.
The disjointed guitar strings playing in the background gave a surreal sense of browsing that store
CZcams just now suggests this to me. I'm sitting here thinking I missed an opportunity to go there! I would have loved to go in that store. I would've wanted to buy so many books. He needed a bigger space for sure. I hope he's doing okay. I can imagine the loving it and hating it. It's was a big responsibility on his own. ... I feel there is more to the story. Who ever suggested indie movie I agree - or documentary. Everyone has a story.
I would go to this bookstore once a day. I will sleep tonight fantasizing about organizing it. Heavenly!
I find this bookstore so beautiful !
I love how you interviewed the same people that cause places like this to close up bc of high rent
Exactly!
Yep
A gold mine.
You can see his frustration
I would still be dying to visit this even just once in my lifetime 🥺😭
I cannot stop watching this
When I become a millionaire, I'm going to get him a building space twice as large. Incredible mind!
Are you a millionaire now?
Now?
Now???
Maybe now?
Perhaps now??
Reminds me of _Voltaire & Rousseau_ in Glasgow, UK.
much like the sitcom "Black Books".
That's exactly what I was thinking!! The guy needs a nice glass of wine. xD
Being smothered in an avalanche of books seems like a pretty decent way to go 🤷♀
I wish we had a bookstore like that near me. It is so hard to find used bookstores now. Online you don't get the experience like you do at a physical store. I would spend lots of time at a store like that!
When the opening credits said "Booklyn" I wonder if that was on purpose. I hope he got a LOT for that building
Do u know whats crazy, no matter how messy it looks, the book seller always knows where to find the book
i LOVE this place it's beautiful
Is it okay to cry after this video?
Man the music makes me tear up even more
What an amazing place. It would be good to go there just to stand in there. It's lovely. You are incredible.
This man is really great.
it's amazing and sad omg i'm gonna cry now 😭
Wow! So sad. Thanks.
Cool bookstore and so much read.
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Wow, this is amazing. I would love to have a bookstore but they are not working easily nowadays.
Modern Art!
As long as they are not getting damaged for being in such a tight space I dont see any problems, but he definetly needs a bigger shelf
love how he smokes in there, with all that paper...
It’s touched my heart wonderfully
I wish i was there
We have a shop in St Leonard’s Australia that is exactly the same. It’s amazing
I love to read and feel the book. Much love to books 📚 ❤
god! Look at it, all those stories trying to escape
Oh man, I would love to be able to organize that lot !
This makes my scalp itch.
This made my heart warm idk why
The piled and falling books remind of an episode of Hoarders. You are just waiting for someone to get hurt.
about 20 years ago I lived in Penrith in Sydney Australia, There was a bookstore at the end of an arcade on the main street like this. Loved going there. The books found you, not you finding the books.
I walked by this shop often. I never went inside. Wish I had.
I love this kind of mess, it's all books
'It reminds me of my grandmother's basement.' Hhahaha If only my grandma had such a basement. I'd stay there all the time
Oh my gosh this is so cool
I would love to organize these books
Please give us an update!! I want to see what happened to the store.
awe, this is extremely sweet. he seems like a pleasant old man who enjoys reading. i feel as though he’s trying to read as much as possible before times up. tbh i would do the same
I'm gonna arrange everything. Little by little, just give me a dozen of books and that's enough🥰
At 2:02 I see a paperback copy of House of Leaves. That book is insane...
I would have fun sifting through all the piles of books; there's bound to be a great encyclopedia in that big pile.
Why am I crying....
He looks like the guy who you'd walk up to and ask for a HP Lovecraft meets Sherlock Holmes, and he'd return in less than 5 minutes with 3 books that are exactly what you're looking for!
*the shot at **0:44* all I could see was the book Closet Control; great shot.
the only cavern i'd be glad to get lost in.
I'm having a Liz Lemmon moment: "I want to go to there" 😂
Wish I had one of these stores near me. Was he setting out free books earlier in the video?
i miss penn book shop in england, was exactly like this.. except they only closed down more recently due to not having the money to keep it around.... ugh makes me so sad
Dude I love this guy