It was a mass-produced late print of Crazy Rich Asians that I already tried to sell/donate - we might as well use it to learn something before it gets recycled! If you're interested in learning more about the publishing industry, check out the related video!
WHAT DO YOU MEAN RECYCLED. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU TRIED TO DONATE. There is ALWAYS someone who would love to read that book. You could've sent it to me 😢 no but seriously. Donate it to a hospital or an old folks' home if no charity shop will take it??
@@Cationnapopular books like Crazy Rich Asians can sometimes be rejected by book donation places (especially if you live in a big city like Sabrina) because they already have so so so many and you can find them real cheap. And a lot of recycling occurs in the second hand market, it's just the name of the game. Tho it does also make me real sad.
i thought this video was going to be about why the first page of the book and each chapter is on the right. it wasn't, and now i'm wondering about that.
@@Cationnarelax friend, Crazy rich Asians is not going to change someone’s life, there are plenty of copies in the world, and at the end of the day paper is paper no matter what’s on it
As a fellow librarian here, that page with no purpose serves to us to make pertinent notes about the loan of the book - such as classification number, stamps identifying the library - so we don't use space that could cover important information such as ISBN, catalog card, publication and author information and stuff like that. Another thing we noticed is that if a book has an excessive amount of unused pages (3 to 5 pages), it is because the publisher is being unethical and charging extra for the book because of this issue. Here in Brazil, the weight of the paper is more expensive than the ink that prints the text, so keep an eye on that. I'm loving the content about books and the publishing market! Success and health always!
and for the desperate people who are saying "you killed the book!", that's impossible. Books are dead decomposing trees, covered in chemicals and paint to express an idea coming from an author (And we all know ideias are impossible to kill). Books are meant to be used, as our patron of Librarianship, Ranganathan, would say. A good alternative is to donate to schools and public libraries in your region, your book could be the door to a wonderful place for thousands of people for years to come. (If you know the iniciative Little Free Library, it's a handy way to donate with more love)
Unused pages at the end are a different matter: those are there to make all the signatures of the binding the same size. However, more than 15 blank pages (in a typical octavo book) cannot be explained by binding technicalities.
@tanveshkaviskar442 you don't understand? smh my head (the rip in "rip in peace" is not the abbreviation but rather the action. that's the joke. sorry, i'm not that funny of a person)
Movies used to front load their credits. That’s one of the things that made the original Star Wars so groundbreaking; one logo and then BAM! You’re in a galaxy far far away.
TV programmes too - if you watch older programmes (Dad's Army is one that springs to mind, I think), they introduce each character and the actor that plays them at the beginning (usually as a silent rolling scene with background music, that pauses on each person). I think Dad's Army may have had a sort of reminder credits at the end as well though, "This has been...". I'm sure an actual TV historian could tell you more accurately, but it's just something I've noticed when I watch older programmes. Another thing is that the loud, distinctive theme music and titles served as a signal that it was starting (in the days before repeats, streaming and pausing TV, you really didn't want to miss the start!), so I guess making them longer to give people more time made sense. Nowadays, we typically just want to get into the meat of the programme straight away.
The downside of films front loading the credits, and probably why they moved them to the end, is that there would end up being a lot of people that went uncredited. In the average animated film you might see the key animators, the storyboarders, and the main cast. But you wouldn't see the colorists, the in-betweeners, and the support characters. Films now can have three different effects houses doing post-production on a single film and another company subcontracted to do the title and end sequences. And that's without crediting support teams like accounting and catering. So, it makes sense that the front loaded credits are all the major bullet points like director, writer, composer and main actors now. Granted that Star Wars is unusually sparse even in that department.
The unions required credits at the beginning of the film. George Lucas wanted his friend, Steven Spielberg, to direct Return of the Jedi but Spielberg was a director union member and would have gone against his union if he did.
@@melissawalsh8760 I hadn’t thought of the union angle, but that does make sense. They would want their members to be credited for their work in a way that couldn’t easily be missed. Kudos to Spielberg.
The cover and first page will always take the most abuse so it's probably a good idea to have a little buffer so you don't lost part of the story. Just a thought.
currently reading a book in English class and both my front and back covers are completely torn off!! the only thing saving me from completely losing it is the fact it still has the second page, which also has the title on it
ALSO, Books are printed on big pages and then folded into a signature which is commonly 4,8,16, or 32 pages. So sometimes a publisher will forego or add a half-title just to fill all the pages in the signature so there isn't a blank on in the front matter.
It’s downright psychopathic. I think that people who rip up books start off tearing flyers into strips and pulling apart pamphlets. Next thing you know they are cutting up magazines. Then they are breaking book spines for sick thrills, and finally they are ripping apart books without remorse.
It’s like an opening credits sequence for me. Gets me to think over the possible themes and characters of the book based on the title and occasionally what I know about the author. I get to transition into my immersion like how opening credits do.
One time I watched an old movie with my grandparents without knowing this, I thought the entire movie was just a girl getting off a train to take a pee.
please never tear a book again. i felt that in my soul. not the books please Edit: I mean you can show a deconstructed book just for my heart don't tear it on camera please. I need to lie down
As someone who wrote and published a book, learning about frontmatter was weird. Like is all this necessary? The answer is yes because if it's not there it looks amateurish af.
Okay i read this book once called Child I - such a good book, would reccomend. But what caugut my eye was that the atrory started on the cover. Like on the cover it started "chapter one" and started... All the copywrite was at the end of the book. It was so good and i really enjoyed it, such a cool idea and very eye catching.
@mcfixer9503 Well, that can be true for some things, but often times that why is utter nonsense. Take cooking, where a lot of French cooking wisdom that's been taken as wisdom for all cooking is just flat out not how it works, at least not anymore. Take gently folding batters with egg whites as leavening, you are just as well off using that electric mixer you probably used to beat the egg whites to begin with instead of doing it "properly "
a lot of booksa I've seen have a 'half title page that's simply blank' and I've seen a few books where there's 5 or 6 pages at the back that are entirely blank, presumably where whatever machine that assembles the signatures can only be set up to do certan quantities of pages.
The front matter is really part of the experience. Like walking into the theater, finding your seat, and waiting for the credits. Except you can easily skip it if you want.
actually that’s not all. Those pages are there for a technical porpouse, when you print a book you print usually 16 pages( and 16 backs of the pages) in a 70x100mm sheet. So making a book needs 16 or multiples-of-16 pages. Or you just leave 1 page white…
10/10 Satisfying cover rip! I knew about bookbinding/Printing be separate, but not about the half page being there to protect the ✨Fancy Title Page. TFS~!
Turning the first couple of pages in a book has the same energy as watching the beginning of a movie and seeing a cool or dramatic looking scene, only to realise its another logo
I read a book once where the first page started on the cover of the book. I didn't even find the story very interesting, but the concept was so interesting I had to get it (this was a library book tho)
Some eBooks automatically start you at page 1 of the body text when you first open them, despite the fact that it's actually page 6 or 10 of the file. Funny thing is, I only found it weird the first time I saw it. I thought "oh, did they cut out the copyright info out of that one?". All the other times it was just "oh, convenient!".
I thought it was because back in the day, there was almost always a few extra pages because of how the layouts were, and so they filled those spare pages up with additional info.
The body text of John Berger's Ways of Seeing - at least, the version I read in university - began on the front cover. Can confirm it felt very weird not to have all the usual filler pages up front, but at the time I thought it was the coolest thing.
Book designer here! We still design to specific multiples of pages for mainstream printing (offset, usually multiples of 8 or 16), and so will only add a half title if we’re under that page count to avoid adding blank pages to the back of the book. So it’s not fully an artifact, it still has a purpose at times.
For many printed products (books, magazines, whatever) printing and binding are still two different processes, in some cases done by two different companies. We visited two book binding companies with my class in primary school back in 2010, so not that long ago. One of them was "old style" with pretty much everything being done by hand, but the other one had modern machines and everything. They didn't produce books though, they did the finishing touches on magazines and folded things such as maps. The magazines arrive there as basically stacks of paper that need to be stapled together, have the test strip cut off (the printers make them a bit too large so that they can print a test strip at the bottom to check whether the colours where all printed correctly) and then packaged.
It was a mass-produced late print of Crazy Rich Asians that I already tried to sell/donate - we might as well use it to learn something before it gets recycled!
If you're interested in learning more about the publishing industry, check out the related video!
WHAT DO YOU MEAN RECYCLED. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU TRIED TO DONATE. There is ALWAYS someone who would love to read that book. You could've sent it to me 😢 no but seriously. Donate it to a hospital or an old folks' home if no charity shop will take it??
@@Cationnapopular books like Crazy Rich Asians can sometimes be rejected by book donation places (especially if you live in a big city like Sabrina) because they already have so so so many and you can find them real cheap. And a lot of recycling occurs in the second hand market, it's just the name of the game. Tho it does also make me real sad.
i thought this video was going to be about why the first page of the book and each chapter is on the right. it wasn't, and now i'm wondering about that.
It's a single book used as a prop to educate people in a video. Chill out.
@@Cationnarelax friend, Crazy rich Asians is not going to change someone’s life, there are plenty of copies in the world, and at the end of the day paper is paper no matter what’s on it
As a fellow librarian here, that page with no purpose serves to us to make pertinent notes about the loan of the book - such as classification number, stamps identifying the library - so we don't use space that could cover important information such as ISBN, catalog card, publication and author information and stuff like that. Another thing we noticed is that if a book has an excessive amount of unused pages (3 to 5 pages), it is because the publisher is being unethical and charging extra for the book because of this issue. Here in Brazil, the weight of the paper is more expensive than the ink that prints the text, so keep an eye on that. I'm loving the content about books and the publishing market! Success and health always!
and for the desperate people who are saying "you killed the book!", that's impossible. Books are dead decomposing trees, covered in chemicals and paint to express an idea coming from an author (And we all know ideias are impossible to kill). Books are meant to be used, as our patron of Librarianship, Ranganathan, would say. A good alternative is to donate to schools and public libraries in your region, your book could be the door to a wonderful place for thousands of people for years to come. (If you know the iniciative Little Free Library, it's a handy way to donate with more love)
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
Unused pages at the end are a different matter: those are there to make all the signatures of the binding the same size. However, more than 15 blank pages (in a typical octavo book) cannot be explained by binding technicalities.
@@bibliomorganrevival OK how about defaced the book? It’s still gave me agita 😱
Brazil mentioned 🎉🎉🎉🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
that rip scared me, i was NOT expecting that 💀😭
Right through the heart
she's been hitting the gym
this is not a short, this is a horror short
Savage Sabrina
and its crazy rich asians too... CRAZY. RICH.MFING ASIANS
rip the book. literally too.
meow
rip in peace
@@drenz1523 Wdym do you mean?
@tanveshkaviskar442 you don't understand? smh my head
(the rip in "rip in peace" is not the abbreviation but rather the action. that's the joke. sorry, i'm not that funny of a person)
I once saw a book that was skinned of its cover pages, even the cover of the spine was gone
Movies used to front load their credits. That’s one of the things that made the original Star Wars so groundbreaking; one logo and then BAM! You’re in a galaxy far far away.
TV programmes too - if you watch older programmes (Dad's Army is one that springs to mind, I think), they introduce each character and the actor that plays them at the beginning (usually as a silent rolling scene with background music, that pauses on each person). I think Dad's Army may have had a sort of reminder credits at the end as well though, "This has been...".
I'm sure an actual TV historian could tell you more accurately, but it's just something I've noticed when I watch older programmes. Another thing is that the loud, distinctive theme music and titles served as a signal that it was starting (in the days before repeats, streaming and pausing TV, you really didn't want to miss the start!), so I guess making them longer to give people more time made sense. Nowadays, we typically just want to get into the meat of the programme straight away.
The downside of films front loading the credits, and probably why they moved them to the end, is that there would end up being a lot of people that went uncredited. In the average animated film you might see the key animators, the storyboarders, and the main cast. But you wouldn't see the colorists, the in-betweeners, and the support characters.
Films now can have three different effects houses doing post-production on a single film and another company subcontracted to do the title and end sequences. And that's without crediting support teams like accounting and catering.
So, it makes sense that the front loaded credits are all the major bullet points like director, writer, composer and main actors now. Granted that Star Wars is unusually sparse even in that department.
The unions required credits at the beginning of the film. George Lucas wanted his friend, Steven Spielberg, to direct Return of the Jedi but Spielberg was a director union member and would have gone against his union if he did.
@@melissawalsh8760 I hadn’t thought of the union angle, but that does make sense. They would want their members to be credited for their work in a way that couldn’t easily be missed.
Kudos to Spielberg.
Have heard that previews of upcoming movies used to show after the END of the film, hence the name "trailers"
The cover and first page will always take the most abuse so it's probably a good idea to have a little buffer so you don't lost part of the story. Just a thought.
currently reading a book in English class and both my front and back covers are completely torn off!! the only thing saving me from completely losing it is the fact it still has the second page, which also has the title on it
This reminds me of a Bible that has been "decompiled" into chunks thanks to age and use.
She definitely demonstrated that in this video
Good point!
Literally gasped when you ripped the book cover off LOL
My face when she ripped the book: 😨
Same!!!😢
Shows her family background clearly. Product of the streets.
Same 😂
I hope she didn't have to do multiple takes 😂
ALSO, Books are printed on big pages and then folded into a signature which is commonly 4,8,16, or 32 pages. So sometimes a publisher will forego or add a half-title just to fill all the pages in the signature so there isn't a blank on in the front matter.
yes, please and thank you.
Sabrina lit the fire at the Library of Alexandria
That would make her suspect number 6, I guess.
You killed it. You killed the book. ;-;
That was fake though right
Right
Right???
@@cosmodoge6565 no. The pinned comment implies it was very real. 😔
Yeah, that one really triggered me I was like NOOOO 😱. I come from an era when books were practically sacred objects. To do that is heresy.
It’s downright psychopathic. I think that people who rip up books start off tearing flyers into strips and pulling apart pamphlets. Next thing you know they are cutting up magazines. Then they are breaking book spines for sick thrills, and finally they are ripping apart books without remorse.
when were you when book was kill
i was at home eating bean when comment appear on screen
"book is kill"
"no"
It’s like an opening credits sequence for me. Gets me to think over the possible themes and characters of the book based on the title and occasionally what I know about the author. I get to transition into my immersion like how opening credits do.
Sabrina is in her bookworm era. And I love it.❤
Isn't she every video lol
Bookworm era!? She tore up that book smh😤😤😤
Bookworms dont tear books,they eat them
SHE KILLED THE BOOK 😭
@@shramanadasdutta3006 it's just like someone cutting up their food into smaller pieces before they eat it.
A part of me died with that book
I don't start my notebooks on page one either and I have no idea why
Also for printing it has to be in multiples of 4 so I feel like some is just there for padding, like blank pages you find in front or back sometimes
in books with thread binding, it even has to be divisible by 16 most of the times... :)
"This page intentionally left blank."
OFFICER
!! I SAW A MURDER!!!!
Good video and explanation, very worth the death of the book.
HOW IS NO ONE TALKING AB9UT THAT BRUTAL DECAPITATION
I had to watch this short a 2nd time because I was mourning instead of paying attention to the explanation.
If you watch old movies, the credits used to be at the beginning, not really till star wars was that changed
How old?
@@ChristopherCraven 60s and older.
One time I watched an old movie with my grandparents without knowing this, I thought the entire movie was just a girl getting off a train to take a pee.
I'm from the book destruction society. This is one of our top members. Flawless technique.
please never tear a book again. i felt that in my soul. not the books please
Edit: I mean you can show a deconstructed book just for my heart don't tear it on camera please. I need to lie down
guys, people use second-hand books for all kinds of projects, making art, collages, education, games, etc, it's fine. the papers will be recycled.
Oh God! I felt that ripping in my soul!
As someone who wrote and published a book, learning about frontmatter was weird. Like is all this necessary? The answer is yes because if it's not there it looks amateurish af.
Love this!!! Also when authors are signing the book, they often choose the half title to autograph. Thanks for the video!
That book being ripped felt personal 😭
I enjoy reading the information on those pages, it gets me on the mood to start a new book
I felt utter pain - pure agony from that rip.
I felt you tear away a piece of my soul when you tore that book into two
I have no idea what was said in this video because I was too focused on her *ripping the book in half*
Okay i read this book once called Child I - such a good book, would reccomend. But what caugut my eye was that the atrory started on the cover. Like on the cover it started "chapter one" and started... All the copywrite was at the end of the book. It was so good and i really enjoyed it, such a cool idea and very eye catching.
"That's the way it's always been done" The best reason to keep doing what we're doing.
do not throw away traditions or practices without understanding *why* they were done
@mcfixer9503 Well, that can be true for some things, but often times that why is utter nonsense. Take cooking, where a lot of French cooking wisdom that's been taken as wisdom for all cooking is just flat out not how it works, at least not anymore. Take gently folding batters with egg whites as leavening, you are just as well off using that electric mixer you probably used to beat the egg whites to begin with instead of doing it "properly "
Even then they start on page 2 😔
I love it ! You write a note for the gift
a lot of booksa I've seen have a 'half title page that's simply blank' and I've seen a few books where there's 5 or 6 pages at the back that are entirely blank, presumably where whatever machine that assembles the signatures can only be set up to do certan quantities of pages.
i actually flinched when she ripped the book lmao
As a matter of fact, lend e books start at page 1 and all the information is on the back. There is however a page 0 with the title sometimes.
The front matter is really part of the experience. Like walking into the theater, finding your seat, and waiting for the credits.
Except you can easily skip it if you want.
You just taught me how to open description of videos i have never eve seen that 3 dots before
Wait me too
I gasped out loud when you tore it 🥲😂
Love the content, but I literally screamed when you ripped the book
actually that’s not all. Those pages are there for a technical porpouse, when you print a book you print usually 16 pages( and 16 backs of the pages) in a 70x100mm sheet. So making a book needs 16 or multiples-of-16 pages. Or you just leave 1 page white…
I felt a disturbance when you ripped the book 😂
The book ripping upset me deeply for reasons I am yet to grasp.
10/10 Satisfying cover rip! I knew about bookbinding/Printing be separate, but not about the half page being there to protect the ✨Fancy Title Page. TFS~!
I flinched soooo hard why did u rip it like that!!!!
I love book related facts, thank you!!
The sound I made. Like a father hearing news about the passing of his first-born child.
I physically recoiled when you ripped the book omg
Turning the first couple of pages in a book has the same energy as watching the beginning of a movie and seeing a cool or dramatic looking scene, only to realise its another logo
I read a book once where the first page started on the cover of the book. I didn't even find the story very interesting, but the concept was so interesting I had to get it (this was a library book tho)
literally flinched back and gaped at the screen in horror when she ripped the book…
I like to read the little message with “to/for/in thanks of.” Cause it feels meaningful.
Anyone else feel their chest lock up when she ripped the innocent book?
It actually feels good to flip through the first few pages without having to read them.
I almost died when you ripped the cover 😭
Oh Sabrina, I think you're wonderful. Keep bringing joy to the internet with your nerdy inquisitiveness!
My favorite type of front matter are maps/family trees/timelines that can be found in fantasy books and such. I just love the look of most of them
Such a high production value short 👍👍👍
The way I screamed when you ripped the book! 😅
David eggers' "you shall know our velocity" starts on the cover.
RIP poor Book
Inkheart told me those title pages are like curtains at the theater
You ripping it before I read that comment gave me a physical reaction
My heart sank when you ripped it
When you ripped the book I died a little internally
Some eBooks automatically start you at page 1 of the body text when you first open them, despite the fact that it's actually page 6 or 10 of the file. Funny thing is, I only found it weird the first time I saw it. I thought "oh, did they cut out the copyright info out of that one?". All the other times it was just "oh, convenient!".
I’m gonna use the phrase “back matter” for something completely different and you can’t stop me
Dude when she ripped the book i felt as if my soul got ripped 😭
The fact I actually felt pain when I saw you rip the book is crazy.
Youre so beautiful i cant aaaaa 😭
My overdramatic ass actually freaked out and said "WHY DID YOU DO THAT??" Out loud when you ripped the book 😭
The gasp i had when you ripped the book... I chocked on my spit becuase i never would have expected you to do that
That rip hurt me😢
There is something about flicking through front matter that makes me think 'wow I'm such a great reader! Look at all these pages I've read already!'
I needed to watch the video twice as I was so shocked after the book tear to actually pay attention
I don't think I've ever noticed a half-title page. Now I need to go inspect my books...
I VERY LOUDLY SCREAMED WHEN YOU RIPPED THAT BOOK IN HALF
I thought it was because back in the day, there was almost always a few extra pages because of how the layouts were, and so they filled those spare pages up with additional info.
The bookworm in me screamed when the book was ripped…
That rip hurt my soul
ohhhhh. i always wondered about that!
I didn't know I was that person but when you ripped the book I died inside
I remember John Green doing a tiny review of half-title pages on the half-title page of The Anthropocene Reviewed.
I assumed some of the blank pages in front were for people to write notes, and acknowledgements to eachother for gifted books
It's for libraries and to fit on the four-page-sized sheets of paper used for binding
I don't mind the book ripping so much anymore, i just wasn't expecting it
First thing that comes to mind for me is stuff like the foreword and the publisher information.
The body text of John Berger's Ways of Seeing - at least, the version I read in university - began on the front cover. Can confirm it felt very weird not to have all the usual filler pages up front, but at the time I thought it was the coolest thing.
I think I died inside seeing that book ripped
The book ripping breaks my heart
I felt that rip on my heart
a book that just started on page one would be a jumpscare tbh
I died inside when you tore that book... Great info, but good lord.
Also mark Lawrence puts the glossary in the front matter which I personally love
POV- You literally SCREAMED when she tore the book
Book designer here! We still design to specific multiples of pages for mainstream printing (offset, usually multiples of 8 or 16), and so will only add a half title if we’re under that page count to avoid adding blank pages to the back of the book. So it’s not fully an artifact, it still has a purpose at times.
For many printed products (books, magazines, whatever) printing and binding are still two different processes, in some cases done by two different companies. We visited two book binding companies with my class in primary school back in 2010, so not that long ago. One of them was "old style" with pretty much everything being done by hand, but the other one had modern machines and everything. They didn't produce books though, they did the finishing touches on magazines and folded things such as maps. The magazines arrive there as basically stacks of paper that need to be stapled together, have the test strip cut off (the printers make them a bit too large so that they can print a test strip at the bottom to check whether the colours where all printed correctly) and then packaged.
That book murder murdered me too