Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
We’ve been on BookTube for one whole year! We published our first video on September 24th 2023, and what a year it’s been. To celebrate, we wanted to highlight some of the most wonderful moments we’ve had over the past 12 months, the incredible friends we’ve made, the authors and publishers we’ve met, the places we’ve travelled and the things we’ve learnt. There’s been a bit of chatter in the BookTube community of late about “The Dark Side of BookTube”, and we wanted to use our anniversary to encourage new creators, and to counter with some levity and some light.
Humungous thanks to our friends that kindly contributed clips to this video, and for generally being A+ pals for the past year. Lots of love to you all, and we’re looking forward to another year of chaos with you.
Content warning: Balloons. (But all the balloons survive the video.)
Creators featured:
@MattsFantasyBookReviews @the_fools_tale @SamHarrison2099 @ladymairreads @CamsCampbellReads @bookswithbecs @charlie-read-a-book @thefairylibrarian @timburbagereads @RaeLovesToRead @thereadpath @HopelessAllomantic
00:00 Introduction
01:45 Are you glad you started the channel?
03:22 Have you struggled with anything over the last year?
04:34 Have you found it scary putting yourself on the internet?
06:15 What changes would you make if you did this all again?
07:27 What are you most proud of?
08:42 What surprised you the most?
10:50 What changes are you going to make in the future?
12:06 THERE ARE BIG THINGS COMING.
12:45 How has BookTube affected your life?
16:15 Our friends tell us about their favourite books of the last year
37:20 Outro
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk
📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks
🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks
🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.uk
We’ve been on BookTube for one whole year! We published our first video on September 24th 2023, and what a year it’s been. To celebrate, we wanted to highlight some of the most wonderful moments we’ve had over the past 12 months, the incredible friends we’ve made, the authors and publishers we’ve met, the places we’ve travelled and the things we’ve learnt. There’s been a bit of chatter in the BookTube community of late about “The Dark Side of BookTube”, and we wanted to use our anniversary to encourage new creators, and to counter with some levity and some light.
Humungous thanks to our friends that kindly contributed clips to this video, and for generally being A+ pals for the past year. Lots of love to you all, and we’re looking forward to another year of chaos with you.
Content warning: Balloons. (But all the balloons survive the video.)
Creators featured:
@MattsFantasyBookReviews @the_fools_tale @SamHarrison2099 @ladymairreads @CamsCampbellReads @bookswithbecs @charlie-read-a-book @thefairylibrarian @timburbagereads @RaeLovesToRead @thereadpath @HopelessAllomantic
00:00 Introduction
01:45 Are you glad you started the channel?
03:22 Have you struggled with anything over the last year?
04:34 Have you found it scary putting yourself on the internet?
06:15 What changes would you make if you did this all again?
07:27 What are you most proud of?
08:42 What surprised you the most?
10:50 What changes are you going to make in the future?
12:06 THERE ARE BIG THINGS COMING.
12:45 How has BookTube affected your life?
16:15 Our friends tell us about their favourite books of the last year
37:20 Outro
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk
📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks
🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks
🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.uk
