Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Hey friends!
It's no secret that being part of a reading community can change how you read your books, how you find the books you read, and how many books are on your TBR. I've chatted about different aspects of this before, but today I wanted to sit down and address how my personal reading taste has changed in the six years I've been here on Booktube making content. What types of stories I am reading now, how my appreciation for genre and style has expanded from when I first joined Booktube, and all sorts of other tangents.
How has your reading taste evolved in the past few years or over your lifetime?

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0:00 Intro
1:43 Genre and Style
4:47 Personal Life
7:17 DNFs
10:03 Drop the Hustle
11:21 Variety in the TBR
14:02 New Releases
17:44 Popular Series
19:47 How I Choose Books
21:39 Types of Content
23:27 Other Changes