when a book is adapted into a movie and then the poster of the movie gets slapped unto the cover of the book... blehhhh... :(

Just a note to any pants makers that might be watching this video. Please continue making pants with the 3 necessary holes in them, I do not wish to have to cut these out myself.

I once read a whole book, without realizing that it was the fourth part of a series. I just thought "I think I'm missing a lot of background story..."

The second he said "Why would you put a major spoiler in the description on the back of the book!" I hit the thumbs up. I hate that!

It makes me happy when hank rants. I feel at ease and strangely comforted Thumbs up if hank should rant about more stuff

"Decapitated YA fiction Ladies... We've had enough" haha.

"If you're paying more for something that makes it less functional, maybe not do it. " same, Hank. Same.

rewatching for like the 10th time, and I was reminded of one of my biggest pet peeves when buying books: when they change the covers part way through the series. I JUST WANT MATCHING COVERS DANGIT.

I literally pointed at the screen and yelled "yes!" at least 5 times during this video.

Angry Hank is my favourite Hank.

Fourth time I've watched this and it tickles me EVERY TIME. Love, love, love AND, yes, number series please!! Gargh!

Two years later, the "Sword of Butts Trilogy" still makes me cackle with laughter.

The worst betrayal that I have ever had as a reader is finding out that the book series I had just finished was actually a series within a series of series. As in, I had read a standalone series of books that took place in the middle of a larger series. There was no end to it! So I gave up.

This video spoke to my soul.

This is definitely one of my ultimate favorite videos on youtube ever.

I agree with everything you said, except our feelings on the deckled edges. I think they are so aesthetically pleasing. Deckled edges do cost more to manufacture because rather than just send the paper through to be blunt cut, it has to be shifted and pattern cut. It adds a few steps on the production line. I don't know why I am telling you that. I'm sure if you cared to know you already would. ha. I also dislike cover changes, and mismatched covers. If all of the other books in the series have foreboding landscapes, don't stick a man with a sword on a horse on book 4!

This was the BEST video you have ever done (in my oh so humble opinion). I irl lol'd!

Hey! That's me, "How to Adult," on the end screen! I am in a Vlogbrothers video?! ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED! (Also: Thank you, Hank!)

I can't stand it when the authors name is bigger than the actually title of the book! To me, it makes me wonder if they designed the cover and was thinking," Oh I am so awesome I wrote a book AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW IT!"

I love deckled egde, 1) I never got paper cuts from them, 2) they feel different 3) it looks more medieval/scoll-like, it was one of the reason why I loved Lemony Snicket books

'Decapitated ladies' this video was the 99 problems of my life. God bless you Hank Green

In which ***** is a somewhat disgruntled lover of books. Ranting about Books The Art Assignment, Episode 1: The Art Assignment - Meet in the Middle - Douglas Paulson and Christopher Robbins- Ep. 1 How to Adult: kzfaq.info

Books that look like Twilight and are Twilight, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT???

"Decapitated YA fiction ladies, stop, we've had enough" oh my god, i didn't understand this until i went back and OH MY GOD

Basically a booktuber's ultimate speech. Thank you for this, Hank. THE PUBLISHERS REALLY NEED TO FIX THAT NUMBER THING.

The edging issue you're having is on books that both cost more and don't, in a sense. QUICK LESSON IN BOOKBINDING TIME! So as books are made in the older style, they are made by folding sheets of paper outside of themselves in groupings, then stitching them all together before stitching them to the front and back plate, then covering those plates with leather and cord. Very little has changed in this process, namely that we now use adhesives instead of stitching. Now, normally, one would take a drop blade to those edges to cut them off and make a nice flushed edge, but hipster book manufacturers leave it on to give the book a more "Old-timey" feel. You don't see this on paperback books for a very specific reason. Namely that paperback books aren't made this way. They are made by taking a stack of pages, and dipping the entire stack in an adhesive glue on one side, then slapping it into the cover "Sheet", folding it shut, pressing it hard as hell, then cutting off whatever excess remains if the rest didn't go according to plan. However, by the nature of how a hardback is manufactured, although not THAT different at their core, the possibility of the non-sheared edges remains. One of the reasons they don't cut those edges off is that getting around the hardback itself, which overlaps, can be a bit of a pain, but it's really not THAT hard, so it still makes no sense that it isn't done.

MY HANK GREEN BRINGS ALL THE NERDS TO THE YARD

NOOO I LOVE THE ROUGH EDGES ON BOOKS LIKE THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX??? THE MICE LIKED TO CHEW ON BOOKS AND IT GIVES IT SUCH A HOMEY FEELING DONT TAKE AWAY MY DECKLE EDGES

Oh man, I love deckled edges. They're just so pretty.

This is probably the best rant video I have ever watched.

i like deckled edges for the aesthetic nature, but good luck trying to flip through the book to find that quote you really liked.

I DESPISE books that don't tell me what series they are a part of and the number in the series. It's so, so dumb. Like, are they trying to get people to buy it on accident thinking it's a standalone story, or the first of a series? I don't know why you wouldn't just put that info right on the spine as the defacto standard unless you're trying to trick people, which is a real shitty thing to do, and not very good for business in the long-run I would think. Also, name of the wind AND ocean at the end of the lane? Instant respect for your taste in books.

This was glorious!

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR RANTS BECAUSE IM JUST LIKE NODDING THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH.

as an english literature student, this is by far my favourite vlogbrothers video ever. Hank you are my book opinionated hero

When Hank reached back for a book from the bookshelf @2:10 I was SHOCKED! I always thought the shelf was waaay back in the room, .. just me?

That Alaska thing spoiled the book for me. I tore out that page before I let someone borrow my copy.

I actually like the deckled edge, it's makes the book feel less impersonal. I like my books with a loose spine where I can see the cracks in the coloring, a few dog-eared pages and even slight stains. They give the book texture and feeling, something to be enjoyed with the text. I want reading to be a multi-sensory experience that I enjoy, and having a pristine straight-edged book takes away that dimensionality, turning it into just paper with squiggles arranged in a particular pattern.

I was reading a book once and half way through I decided to read about the author. To my surprise, there was a massive spoiler on the page before. The author was answering questions and one of them was "Why did you choose to have _______ die?" It was written in huge, bold letters at the top of the page. I was like "ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!" Why in the world would an author put something like that in that spot!!!!!

This video is my favorite thing after books

I think Hank covered every single one of my book pet peeves. Impressive.

A deckle edge was originally the standard, because all paper was handmade, but now it is considered a sign of a higher end book because it used to mean that the paper slurry was poured into an individual frame, dried, and removed, instead of being made on a Fourdrinier machine, which sliced the paper uniformly. I just think it's neat that something that was inevitable, then became sought after, and is now intentionally done by machines...either way, I LOVE the deckle edge.

I'm still fascinated by Hank swinging around The Name of the Wind randomly...

There should be a part 2 to this!! so funny!!

Ah, I love the feel of deckled edges.

This is one of my new favorite vlogbrothers videos I think. Excellent. Keep doing what you're doing.

I really appreciate how non-spoilery the vlogbrothers are in their videos...thank you, Hank, for not spoiling Looking for Alaska!

It makes me so happy that you were waving "The Name of the Wind" around.

Dear Nerdfighteria, we need to a write a book about a guy on a sword with a horse. It will be the second book in the Sword of Butts trilogy. There will be no first book.

Ooooh, books not indicating that they're part of a series when they are. HAAAAAAATE. I bought a book, which I thought was a standalone story, but it turns out it was part 3 of a trilogy.

I love that you're angrily swinging hhe Name of the Wind around! That book gives me life!

One of your best videos, Hank. I have to keep coming back to rewatch it every once in a while.

Those Kindle e-readers make reading so much easier for me, so much so that reading from physical books is an annoyance. I can adjust the size of the text, I can hold it in one hand and in any position I want, if I don't know what a word means I can just press it and up comes a definition, it's smaller and more portable than an average book (let alone thinner, I can just about fit it in my pocket), I can highlight stuff without a pen, I know how long left I have in the book down to the very minute, books are ludicrously cheap if not completely free, the book doesn't degrade and pages aren't torn out, and I don't even have to leave the house; it's all instant. I do like having books on a shelf for which I can boast about my sizeable collection, but for me, the actual reading of the book and what I take away from it outweighs all the benefits of having a collection akin to Alaska Young's. The main reason as to why everyone doesn't immediately go out and buy a Kindle is that they'd have to re-buy all of their books, which sucks, but also the sentimental value of reading physical books is a downside for some. People love to flick through pages and feel the soft touch of paper and have the authenticity and realness of reading a physical book. It feels personal in a way, that you're reading off real ink on a real page, and not cold metal. Also, cover art is pretty cool. But I reject all of these traditions in favour of having a more accessible and easier reading experience that I otherwise wouldn't have.

I literally agree with every single thing that you said in this video. The only two things missing are when they change the heights of the books midway through a series, or when they do a cover change part way through a series.

Way! The book he had in his hand "Name of the Wind" was so good! ^^

Another gripe that I have. Why are some books printed in such low quality that I can ERASE THE WORDS WITH MY HANDS?

I love Hank's little OCD meltdown over the non-matching numbers :D

This is gold. Been loving angry/cray Hank's videos!

Hank: John, you’re an author Me, from the future: SO ARE YOU HANK YOU WROTE A BOOK AND WE’RE ALL SO PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!!

this is arguably the best vlogbrothers video I've ever seen. and it speaks to me on a very deep emotional level

Started laughing uncontrollably when he points out the different printing of book # in series. That drives me insane!

The thing that bugs me more than ANYTHING else these days is BAD FORMATTING on eBooks. It kills me because it shouldn't be a problem in the first place. If my phone can tell when I miss a space between two words, then so can you, Amazon, et al.!

I have been waiting my whole life for this. Thank you. Thank you so much.

Is it me or when he says 'Why? Why? Why?' hank sounded like a Dalek?

You should rant more, this was quite entertaining

Best video in quite a while. Love the passion.

I wish I could like this twice. Hank, your rants bring me so much joy.

Hank is my spirit animal.

You missed one of the most irritating things about books and their covers!! Changing the cover style *Half way through a series!!!!!* Why the eff would they do that?!!? They just completely ruined my bookshelf!! It physically hurts me when this happens...

The thing about publishers not putting numbers on the books in a series is so infuriating! It's why I always check on Goodreads before buying. But my theory is that bookstores tend to only stock the most recent release in a series (unless it's a super popular best-seller) and people would be less likely to buy a book if it's book 4 in a series, and therefore they're better off getting you to unwittingly buy book 4, safe in the knowledge you're gonna come back and ask for books 1-3

SPOILERS FOR CINDER IN THE FOLLOWING PART let´s just take a moment of appreciation that in the backtext of the german cinder book there was written that cinder is from luna.......

This literally just made my day omg You have mastered Vlogging

YES HANK YOUR RANTS ARE THE BEST PLEASE DO MORE THEY MAKE ME LAUGH SO MUCH :D Also I TOTALLY agree with everything you said especially the spoiler thing like CMON WHY WOULD YOU WRITE THAT IN THE DESCRIPTION UGH

This is what I love, Hank. I love it when you are passionate, intelligent, and _completely_ insane.

I didn't realize how much I needed this video until I found it.

I can just about stand it when I start off a series with the paperbacks then I end up with hardbacks. But you know what hurts my soul? When an author switches publishers part way through the series so the spines look different. The Maximum Ride series by James Patterson goes through 5 different ones in the space of 8 books and seeing them on my shelf is so annoying. Also, with the series of unfortunate events I had 12 books, all identical, then my aunt buys me the 13th book FROM AMERICA. Different spine! RAGE!

I had to present a book report for class in fifth grade, and afterwards, the guy I had a crush on was like oh, cool he was just reading that book. "I haven't gotten to the part you were talking about, though," he told me, and showed me how he was halfway through the book. That was a low moment in my history. No spoilers is serious stuff.

Cover changes. Especially when it's like the last book in the series or half way through. It makes me and my bookshelf sad.

"I can make my own pant holes thank you" -Hank green

Yeah why haven't they made books waterproof yet??? I have a hot tub and I would love to read while sitting in it without the fear of ruining my book by dropping it.

So this is now a favorite video of mine.

I'm a fan of the deckled edge, having been to art school and learning about paper making/cutting, etc. :)

I love this stuff. You guys have taken the art of vlogging and perfected. Good job.

Amen! Hallelujah! Preach it brotha!

I want to read Sword of Butts.

I actually really like that type of paper in a book. I love the way it feels. Also. OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE WAS FREAKIN AMAZING AND WONDERFUL AND FEELS AND TERROR AND AHHHHHH. I love Neil Gaiman's written voice SO MUCH.

EXACTLY!! Oh my gosh, it would be really nice to know if a book is the sequel or the third book in a series.

THIS IS MY FAVORITE KZfaq VIDEO. SERIOUSLY. I HAVE WATCHED THIS SO MANY TIMES NOW.

What about book series that update their cover designs halfway through the series so you have to either buy new books or have a mismatching collection?!

Ugh! The spines changing... THE HORROR!!!

I can't stop rewatching this! Favorite Hank video for sure :))

I'm crying. why am I only discovering your videos now, this is awesome

YES. DOWN WITH DECKLED EDGE PAGES.

Always nice to see Hank upset. As someone who lives thanks to books, I share most of your GAH sentiments here. And yeah, wondering about the expensive books with the uneven edges. Need to investigate the construction details to find out what's going on there...

This is absolutely one of my favourite Hank videos ever! I have watched it at least 10 times. I'm not even exaggerating. My life in one video. I seriously laugh out loud every time.

This is the first vlogbrother's video I ever watched and the beginning of my relationship with vlogbrothers, leading to me reading John Green's books and falling in love with TFiOS. Thank you, Hank.

Here's an anecdote: in the oldest, most decrepit bathroom of my old highschool, in the very last stall, there was a collection of graffiti that was exclusively nerdfighteria graffiti. I'm talking portraits of Pizza John, quotes from Hank's songs, John's books, DFTBAs, FTL, Esther Earl quotes and love. It was the most random thing but I guess it's where the few nerdfighter ladies convened. The janitors painted over the stall three times and we kept coming back with more and more graffiti. It was awesome. Nerdfighter pride from a small catholic high school in small town in Southern Ontario.

Sometimes I've read books and still had no idea they were in the middle (or worse, the END) of a series once I was done. Like, a few months or even years pass, and it comes up in conversation, and they mention earlier books, and I'm just... "What? THERE WAS MORE? WHY WASN'T I INFORMED?!"

ONE OF MY FAVOURITE VLOGBROTHERS VIDEOS OF ALL TIME

This is the BEST Hank video I've watched so far (I have watched around 600 vlogbrothers videos)