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I absolutely hate when they don't number books in a series! The amount of times I've had to google the order of a series is just sad.
Nat F i'm about to comment this! finally! i thought its just me. 😂 this is sooo me, after I bought throne of glass series! 😂
Good god, YES. Like, it's not that difficult to add a number to the spine indicating where in the series it falls.
Nat F Right? My Goodreads is always open whenever I'm in a bookstore. I don't google books because I might come across a spoiler, though.
I totally understand. Best friend? Goodreads.
Yes exactly, I always have to check out Goodreads because it numbers books and is the most reliable, as it also gives a summary since all new books only have praises and PDFs or audiobooks don't really say anything
1# Bookish Pet Peeve: When I buy a book or get it from the library, then later realize that it's book number 2 or 3.
THE PAIN
I just did that. I got Cress instead of Cinder.
Or when the library only has book #1 of a series and you have to inter library loan the rest...then when you do that the 4th book comes before the 2nd and 3rd (I'm still waiting on the 3rd book a week and a half later....hoping I get the call in the next few hours because if it comes in tomorrow I won't be able to get it until Monday....and I'm almost done with book #2)
Mina Sieradski I was your 100th like
I did this with The Awakening of Sunshine Girl. I didn't know it was the second book until I went on Goodreads to add it to my shelf.
I also did this with The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey, but that was on purpose.
My bookish pet peeve: when there is a sticker on a book and you take it off and either it makes a mark or ruins the cover of the book
that happened to me with a house of night book, i was so pissed off that day...
Omg omg yes! The stickers torture me! There are so many types of good stickers that are easily peelable and you choose the ones that are half out and half still stuck! Stop ruining my gorgeous books!
Please. Can we start a petition to end the ruining of books with those stickers? Like, I ruined the cover of my brand new Dan Brown book trying to take it off since some of the residue decided to stick around. >:(
Or when you out it in your bag becuase you read it in a bus, and go with your girl friends to the mall (I mainly go because there is a beautiful book store there 😍) and when they want to go to stores for clothes, AND when you go inside then outside the alarm goes on. Bcs those alarms at the entrance if the store start bcs in the bar code sticker on te books there is usually some kind of metal so it happened to me and my mother more then once...😒
UGHH AGREED I LOVE THOSE STICKERS THAT JUST PEEL SO SATISFYINGLY
bookish pet peeve: when the size of 2 books in the same series is different. LIKE NO THANK YOU, I'D RATHER HAVE THE SAME SIZE!!
Also, I absolutely HATE it when a book gets a cover change mid series.
Habiba Malik Same!! I bought Frozen Tides and Crystal Storm together on amazon, both from the same publisher and both paperbacks, but Crystal Storm is SO MUCH bigger, like what the hell Razorbill? You ever heard of consistency?
And I especially hate it, when the writing on the spine of a series isn't the same size or in the same position. So when you have them together on your shelf, the spine of one book just pops out because it's wrong. I mean, didn't they have the old measurements??
Habiba Malik How about when the very last book in the series has a cover change?😂😂 It happened to me with Artemis Fowl and is honestly something I will forever be upset about😂
shhh. hush! sabaa tahir might hear you! 😂 (midseries cover changes, ugh no thanks!)
yes... idk how that's possible but blood of olympus (4th book of series) is slightly smaller than books 1, 2, 3 and 5 and i just cant look at these books standing next to each other
RED QUEEN.
#1 when the book is so thick the spine bends and it looks cracked
2# different height of books
3# when the font is way to small so you get a massive headache (yes im talking to you game of thrones)
4# colored text....like in shiver
Rebecca L im on clash of kings and it's really hard to read, it literally takes forever, maybe its the writting or the complex plot, but it has never taken me so long to push through a book. 😔
Andrea Elzo #1 Thooo
Andrea Elzo I think they had to split in two parts because a) they had gone on too long to be one book and b) the fans were going crazy for another one
Who published your GoT books? The Bantam version has bigger font than the Harper Voyager ones.
Omg, number one... That's the reason I avoid buying paperbacks. Especially when they have a really pretty design on the spine
When I write a book one day, I will include all these pet peeves just to annoy Jesse.
Portia Edwards 😂😂😂😂😂
Portia Edwards you are an inspiration to us all
And you will be my least favourite peron
You are
... Either amazing or going to annoy him so much
HAHAHAH same!
#1 Pet Peeve: when I buy a a book, than later discover it is ripped😢
Nightcore6Nation even worse is it's unpopular, so there are very few copies, and you must consciously buy a damaged copy as that is all that is there.
Or when you borrow out a book from the library and realise that some one damaged the book with say liquid or wrote in it or ripped it. it just bugs me, people need to know how to take care of books!!
Nightcore6Nation I've done that. Made me so sad. Now I inspect every book before choosing my copy.
That's exactly what happened to me when I bought A Court of Mist and Fury, the pages were basically off the BINDING!
That's one of the worst. I ordered a package and it looked as if it was dropped in a puddle, thrown in a trash compactor and used as a chew toy for a dog. Then when I eventually opened it to get to the book, the book had water damage, it was ripped, the first chapter was missing and the back cover was ripped. Let's just say I sent it back.
I hate if I see a book in a store and it's wrapped in plastic so I can't open it and flip through it, that's especially annoying when there's no description on the back😑😑😑
*#2 is soooo true!!* I am so used to looking on the back of the book for the description and I hate how now it's on the inside. *ugh.*
Lauren Young even worse when they do it on paperbacks, because then they dont even have a description on the inside cover because there is no inside cover, and there's *no description!*
sylva lane I know! That's the worst :(
And sometimes the blurbs aren't even for that book, but for other books by the author. Then you're flying *completely* blind.
I got Rick Riordan's new book and it happened and it annoyed me but the book is good I'm not complaining about the actual book it's self
@@LadyFeline3 true
My biggest pet peeve for books is a cover change in the middle of the series. 😡
Israr shhhhh! Sabaa tahir might hear you! 😂
Israr I'm all for having diverse POC's on covers, BUT NO MID-SERIES COVER CHANGES!
They are doing this with the Ember in the Ashes series, and it killed me when I heard the news, because now my covers won't match. Not to mention that the originals were so pretty
Israr they are changing the covers? What? No... I spent extra money on the hardcover. Fuck no, what is wrong with these people. Don't the authors think it's annoying themselves?
Israr ahhh. That is not okay.. are they changing the size too? Or is that still the same?
My bookish pet peeve: when the main character just wants to be 'normal' and 'doesn't understand' then spends the whole book moaning and being useless.
Jackie Child so true!
Omg same, it's so annoying 😑
lol
Jackie Child soo annoying!
Literally Mare from the Red Queen series.
STICKERS STICKERS STICKERS STICKERS.
And I agree about the matte covers and smudges. And blurbs on the back. And blank pages. Lol.
I hate when i'm flipping a page and it feel in my hand like two pages that's confusing to me hhhhh😅😂
Your eyeroll in the thumbnail is so intense 😂 #PEEVED
I acually like blank pages it increases the pages I've read even though I have't read anything
Zeynep Kosebalaban 😂
+Zeynep Kosebalaban omg lol
Thank god I'm not the only one 😂
I read Everything Everything so fast because of that 😂😂😂
momolongueuil Haha, ik picked it up yesterday and I read 50 pages in like 30 minutes😂😂
Funniest thing I've read all morning 😂
I agree I just hate so much when on the back it's only other people thoughts on the book, back is for description period!
AAA oh my gosh we share the blank page pet peeve!! In my copy of Lady Midnight there are just 7 blank pages after the book is done with nothing on them and it makes me SAD that they are there for NO REASON.
I also don't like when the cover of a paperback doesn't completely cover the entire front (if that makes sense??) kinda like what they did to the revamped editions of the mortal instruments
Athena Rose yes even with the lunar chronicles they don't cover the whole book like??? that's the whole point of the cover!
Athena Rose yes, my copy of Scarlet doesn't completely cover the book. Get your books from puffin, they cover the entire book
😂
My Always and Forever Lara Jean by Jenny Han has like 5 blank pages and i think its supposed to be the wedding planner add on in it. It has stickers and food recipes and theres supposed to be a wedding planner in it. Buttt....theres nothing. Lol
I like art so I like doodle on those pages
My Lady Midnight copy has 12 blank pages at the end😒
One blank page is nothing compared to the "great" idea a publisher thought of last Christmas. There was a book, which they wanted to be a part of the Christmas sale, but the book wasn't ready yet, so what they did was they printed the first chapter in the book and left ALL the other pages blank and the idea was that you could buy the unfinished book and inside we (the employees) would make a giftcard and put it in a little plastic folder on the back of the front cover. Then when the full book came out you could come in and exchange the giftcard for the full book.
That was ridiculous and a total waste of resources! They wanted to see how it went with that book and maybe use the method with other books aswell.
My boss refused to put our copies on the shelves. Luckily we haven't seen anything like that since.
Blue Angel That is utterly ridiculous!!!
Daniela Chavez i know right!!!
What the heck. They could’ve just done the damn gift cards in an envelope.
Tf
''stickers'' you CANT EVEN REMOVE
#1:When books are different heights. #2:then the plastic wrap covery thing peels off. #3:TINY FONT (killer on the eyes).....Okay im done
Shauna XX #2 definitely!!
Shauna XX number 2..... I forgot about that one.....
Shauna XX or when you buy a book from the store and there's a sticker place over the cover and you want to peel it off so you can see it fully, but when you do it doesn't come of all the way and you spend hours to get it all off so when you see it you don't feel like buying another copy without a sticker residue.
#1 Pet Peeve: When I have to literally go on a quest to FIND the book's title on the cover! It's either super tiny, and squished to the side, or the author's name takes up more space than the title itself!
#2 Pet Peeve: Those jagged edges...WHY DO THEY EXIST?! I want to rub my hands down the smooth pages, not potentially stab myself with paper!
#3 Pet Peeve: Those blank pages at the end that give you hope that there's more to the book, but NOPE! Just existing for the sake of taunting me! I have to flip through each one to just make sure that the author hasn't added a secret extra page!
it's not only about physical books but e-books too - typos... man, currently i am reading Anne of Avonlea and idk about the original but in my language there are SO MANY TYPOS AND EVEN GRAMMAR MISTAKES ALL THE TIME I CAN'T EVEN
Gonzalita OMG! I hate that so much 😫😑
Gonzalita omg, it's so annoying! I recently read Girl Online (german translation) and there were more typos in this book than in every other one I've read so far. Which would be ok, but they also made multiple grammar mistakes and I was like "what the hell?? You work for a publisher, it's your JOB to translate stuff, you should at least know the grammar of your own language!" And how can this even get through, are they not proofreading this stuff?
Kristina Ma yeah! the polish version of anne of green gables had so many typos and grammar mistakes i couldn't believe a book can have so many and i hoped anne of avonlea won't have as much. BUT IT DOES
Gonzalita That's awful! How could anyone let it be printed?? I love Anne, thankfully the books I own don't have that...
This is a huge pet peeve of mine, too. I don't know why, but e-books always get the short end of the stick when it comes to editing. It takes me out of the story and I almost always end up giving the book a lower rating because of it.
When I see a blank page in a book I just draw and or take notes on those pages
One of my biggest pet peeves is when the dust jacket wasn't cut right, and so a part of the back of the dust jacket shows on the part that covers the spine. It isn't lined up right. It looks terrible and has stopped me from buying the book before because I just can't stand to look at anything that isn't lined up properly. Do you get what I mean? It's like the one who did the cutting or folding just didn't care about where the folds go or anything like that. And you can't just fold it to fit, cause there are creases already in the paper! Makes me so mad! It's happened a few times on paperbacks too, but not as often.
Amanda K
I hate that, too! I've only seen this on english books, though. My german books have perfectly fitting dust jackets, but my english copies of The Raven King and the ADSOM trilogy are just way too big, there is so much space between book and dust jacket. Someone folded them wrong and the books always tend to fall out of it 😟
Ugh, that would be so annoying! And putting the series together on the shelf when some of the dust jackets don't fit right makes the whole thing look sloppy. Some are snug, others bubble out weird. :( I guess the people who oversee putting the books together just don't care. They need to hire some perfectionists to make sure it's all straight. lol
I totally agree with this! My copy of CoHF will always haunt me because the creases are all half an inch left if where they should be -.-
A half an inch?! Eww, that's terrible. I'd have to keep that book out of sight because that would annoy me so much!
Right??? Maybe that's the reason I only read it once 😂
I actually not to long learnt what a blurb is. :o I swear I got taught in school that it is the description on the back of the book. I have been lied to!!
britishbookbuyer same here
britishbookbuyer britishbookbuyer it can mean either; the way that you're thinking of (as in a short summary of a book) but also the way Jesse is using the word :)
britishbookbuyer I was arguing with my English teacher about that😂
Nellie S oh okay then. Why is there more than one definition for everything. Thank you for the clarification :)
britishbookbuyer same here!!
I hate when its only blurbs on the back too!! UGH! I also hate how on amazon now- where i always look up books from booktube bookhauls- only have blurbs AND THERES NO DESCRIPTION ANYWHERE WTF!!!
freeleigh Unfortunately that's a thing. But I usually look up the Kindle version which I believe always has a description.
One of my biggest pet peeves: when someone gets me a book in the middle of the series and it’s often a book I have no interest in reading. But if I DO wanna read it, I have to get the first half of the series first
Another one is that I prefer soft covers but also have a weakness for hard covers. This is more a pet peeve for myself 😂
Oh my gosh I understand all of these but I can definitely relate to the first one!!!! UGH I hate when my books are not in perfect condition😡. One of my bookish pet peeves is when the pages are not straight and they are purposely messy looking. WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT!!!
This one may or may not be controversial but dust jackets. I hate dust jackets. They get in the way, they rip, and without them books, most of the time look ugly. Why can't the hardbacks just have the cover printed right on to the book?.
I know there are loads of down sides to that idea too, but yeah still they irritate me.
Lizzy B i just get rid of them
That's why I prefer paperbacks
I tape the dust jacket to the book so it stops slipping off mid read or gets ripped when I put it in my bag
i actually really love the dust jackets, i think it protects the book from time to time [when it gets all ruined] but i still see ur point
The Girls with a Thousand Laughs I only put the dust jacket on when I take the book with me so it’s like a jacket otherwise I take it off
When you read a book and love it so much that you want to reread it and when you do it isn't as good as you remember
what I really hate is, when books have more than one page with the title (and often cover). I have read books where they printed the same page 3 or 4 times.... why????
paperbacks in general just annoy me because i always end up bending them
Stopped reading to watch!
Same
Yup
Samee
omgossh SAME 😻😻
My bookish pet peeve: when a book has like 15 blank pages at the end so I think that I'm not done with the book yet and then I have to say goodbye way too soon
omg, the first one. "art that nobody wants to see"
thank you Jesse, that was the best
The footnotes in Nevernight are my favorite part. They detail the history that doesn't fit with the story but add some depth to it. Also, the narrator gets really saucy in the footnotes.
1# bookish pet peeve: when the pages of a book is so freaking thin! It drives me insane, its so easily ripped! Some examples: Empire of Storms, Winter, Acowar etc...
It drives me crazy
The thumbnail is so sassy I can't not love it😂
When pages don't have page numbers, it drives me crazy!
The blurb thing is the literal worst when it happens on paperbacks! Like, there is no inside flap! How the actual heck am I supposed to know what the book is about then?!
I can relate to ALL of these!!!!😂
You should do the video on pet peeves inside the book too.
Love your videos Jesse!!!!💞
A great example of foot notes done right: The Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch
Maddy Martin yes! loved it
Maddy Martin or Nevernight
Maddy Martin footnotes just makes me think I'm reading a research paper or something other in that line of work and I get bored instantly. :)
Kira Jeppesen these footnotes are more like little notes from the author who is quite the character. It's more like if the book was annotated in bright colored marker but the publishers were like nah so he had to put us little quips at the bottom
Maddy Martin to me, that doesn't seem like fun. I would still feel like I'm reading something for University! But it does seem like a fun idea for people who like that. :)
A huge pet peeve of mine is when the sticker thing on a library book cuts off the description (which happens all the time!); or when they print the book with huge text that have big spaces, it makes it seem like they're trying the book look like it's bigger than it really is and wastes paper
(a video of your pet peeves about the content of books would be awesome!)
I hate it when classics don't have descriptions in them at all because people assume the readers already know what it is about when picking it up! I don't know the plots of ALL the classics, that is why I want to read some of them
Thank you for talking about wasting pags on only one word, at least I'm not the only one thinking about the waste of trees.
RESPECT
OMG I hate it when there are like 10 blank pages at the end of a book like whyyyy?
An Abundance of Katherines is my favourite John Green book and it is filled with footnotes and I love them!
Jesse seriously is one of my favorite booktubers 💛
What’s worse than reviews on the back of the book, is “praise for the authors other books” on the back of a Different book..
I definitely want to see a video about annoying things within books!
ALL of these are SUPER relatable!!! And all of the comments down are super relatable too! I have nothing to say other than that you are so right about these pet peeves! Bc all us bookworms have the same problems but still enjoy a good book(aka a book that messed with our emotions, occasionally destroying us). And yes please! Do a vid about pet peeves inside books! Or cliches or smthn! I love all your vids, and I think that that is a great idea!
Ahhh I'd love to see a part two of this based on the actual content of the book!!
When your reading a soft cover book and it randomly closes mid sentence
Mom: What’s wrong?
Me:MY BOOK CLOSED MID PAGE GET OUT!!
Mom:😳
Do a inside of book pet peeves!!
YESSS you need to make a video of your pet peeves as it comes to plots and stuff like that 💖
Jesse you so brighten my day!
Don't hate on the blank pages! They are secretly magical creatures who protect the books from evil!
-Adventure Time Reference-
WHAT A CONCEPT!!! hahahaha
Biggest physical bookish pet peeve: not be able to remove the "now a motion picture" sticker that's printed on the cover! IT'S THE WORST!
I love this channel and get all my books based on yours and other booktubers reviews
Can you do this video but with things that you really love?☺️
When editions of books will come out with a bunch of blurbs on the cover 😣 it was so beautiful why are you putting a bunch of blurbs and stuff right over the cover image! 😭
bitter book vids are my all-time favorite
Omg I love books with footnotes!! I actually find them super sweet and fun
I hate the smell of Harry Potter and the cursed child, smells like disappointment
And plotholes
“Rubbish”
-Fred and george weasley
( i’m reffering to THAT so called hp BOOK)
Love the eye roll in the thumbnail 😂 Great job on making me laugh, Jesse
Oh my God yes!
my feelings exactly!
Especially when there's no description on the back of the book that drives me crazy!!
I share so many of these!!! Like removing the description!!! And blank pages and the footnotes!?!?! I mean I know right!!! Sometimes these things make me not to read further. Though I still do..! Great video Jesse!!!
I knew where you were going with that first one before you got there, and I so agree! Having finger prints all over books makes me so mad.
The blank page part made me laugh so hard I agree with you about it so hard like all of these are my peeves also.
So much agree on the blurbs at the back of the book instead of the description of the book because then I have to check the description thru my phone.
Three bookish pet peeves of mine:
1. when, halfway through the series, the paper used for the cover changes and now I have three books with regular covers and two with slick, smooth covers
2. when the first few books of the series have been adapted into films and used the posters as covers but the latter ones in the series are still un-adapted and they're all the same goddamn edition so everything gets mixed up
3. when you start reading a series, it goes out of print in your native language and you have to read the rest in another language
You completely hit the mark!
Just had the footnotes problem while reading Nevernight! It got super annoying, but I ended up skipping most of them after skim reading them and finding out if it was even relevant to the story.
Can please make a part 2 wherein you talk about the things that annoy you in the actual story of the books? Loved this btw!!
Blank pages are the worst! Great vid as always Jesse. I'm wasting my precious reading time on this but nevermind. It's always worth it! Keep doing these vids!
When there's a sticker on the cover that cannot be removed!!
I love blank pages in books! They still count for the page count and you don't have anything to do, you're just one page further with no wortk! It's like in board games when it lets you skip some of the fields. I love it. I also love when at the end of a chapter there's like only a few lines on the page and then it skips to the next for the next chapter. Free progress!
i love footnotes in books when they're funny, but i agree, it can be lazy
One of my biggest bookish pet peeve is when the dust jacket of a book is just too big and is constantly falling and basically annoying the crap out of me
My biggest pet peeve is when I let someone borrow my book and they dog ear the HELL out of it or just bring it back to me like the stuffed it in the bottom of the bag.
Then , when I lend someone a book and they don't even bother cracking it open. I remember letting my friend borrow my book, and she said she never had to time to read it. There's ALWAYS time to read.
Book marks that make it so you can’t put the book back on the shelf or in the box it came in if is a series. I hope that made sense. Love your videos Jesse!
YES I remember when I was young, my copy of Stone Cold had four blank pages at the end and it just drove me nuts!
I agree with the blank page thing. SAVE THE TREES
Can I just say that I love you!! I love your channel!
I see those notes in EVERY SINGLE BOOK I READ!!!!! It drives me crazy.
By watching your videos I always thing you should be an actor because you are so expressive and beautifully dramatic but in reality, you are just being yourself, ands that’s better. Keep up the good content.
I recently started reading books again because I realized how much I missed them and I don't even know how many of your videos I've watched in the past few days hahaha 😂 I relate so damn much and you're so so funny you literally make my day 😂♥️ AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THE BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS 🤤
Please do a pet peeves video about content within books, it would be great. Also I relate to all of these so much omg.
What you said is very true. I don't like seeing blank pages when they could put more words on that page. Even though my two biggest book peeves would turn off the light, no I want to read then getting onto again saying turn off the light. Even though getting erupted every time when while you are at still reading.
My biggest pet peev is an end nubbin. It's when the corners of book covers ball up into little corner nubs and it's not all smooth and it bothers me bc it makes me feel like I'm not taking care of my book
Yay I have a fever and you uploaded and made me happy
jesse with the forward book design thinking... blurbs on the flap is possibly the best idea ever
I've read a book that when a chapter ends you turn the page and the page on the left is blank. For EVERY chapter
The second one yes!!! That annoys me so much!!! When I pick up any book I go straight the back and I get mad cause all I want to do is find out what the book is about! And my friends go "its is in the inside" and "I'm like I know but when I pick up a book I go straight to the back don't ask why I just do"
when the page number is moved with the new chapter pages. i can understand when the new chapter has a little illustration at the start, i.e. Potter, but if it's in the top corner on most pages but gets put on the top when it's a new chapter i just want to scream.
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THE FIRST ONE - it's also on three dark crowns and it drives me crazy!
I love it when there is one word on the page
When there are stickers on the book covers.... drives me up the wall! Then there is residue on my book cover or nail marks from me picking it off
I need pet peeves about the content too asap! great video!