I think I enjoy watching people cull their shelves because it shows me how their reading tastes have changed over the years - I don't think they have to be done in a negative way but can be a way to get to know yourself as a reader again.

I love seeing how others reorganise their shelves, and perhaps if you reframe "culling" as reorgansing (and donating!) then it wont feel so harsh!

Recently, you showed us two new releases, “Christ on a Bike” by Irish author Orla Owen, and “Whale Fall” by Elizabeth O’Connor. Both stories are set in Wales, and I enjoyed them very much. I probably wouldn’t have taken notice of these two books at all if not for your channel. Thank you!😀

Happy booktube anniversary Simon! Loved this video so much. This is kind of a half-baked idea, but maybe as you are going through your shelves you can set aside a few books that feel like "landmarks" in your life or your reading journey? Sort of books that bring to mind a strong feeling or memory from the past? That could be a really nice video I think. Big hugs always..xxx

Ohhh your library is so lovely, but I completely get it, you need a refresh!! I can’t wait to see the new space 🥰 Also huge congrats on 8 years on BookTube! 🎉 I’ve always wanted to ask where your wallpaper is from as well, it’s gorgeous!

If it's a long cull, unhaul video perhaps break it down into a number of Parts- Part 1 Authors A to L, Part 2 - Authors M to Z or along the lines of how your books are arranged. Hope the library refresh is a great experience for you. Cherio!

You are the least savage savidge and the most 24yo-like 42yo 🥹 looking forward to seeing how your summer shapes out! 🌞

I love redecorating and heartily support your decision to re-invent your library vidudio (video studio mashup). I don't love 'culling' videos but I do enjoy when creators describe their reorganization decision (alpha by author, subject, publisher, genre, a stack here, a double layer there, by spine color, etc.) I strongly recommend you watch plant-based brides vidudio remodel. I think she posted two vids (one for the office end; the other for the library end.) For video ideas: Id like to see before and afters and in process. When you are steaming the wall paper off the plaster and cursing for example. Keep a list on a post-it where you can jot down scenes in books that your renovation brings to mind. And then record in the worksite your memories of those scenes and what you were doing when it popped into your head. I'd love to know what books you wish you hadn't packed away and which ones you you kept out but lost interest in reading. I also love Emma's tours of Little Library Boxes (may be unique to North America, not sure) where she attempts to deacquistion her books periodically. Honestly, Simon, just be you. Enjoy the process. Its messy, chaotic, expensive, and uncivilized but in the end, very rewarding. Carpe diem!

I think reading some of the oldest books on your shelves is a great idea. You could also read one unread book from each shelf. I never watch culling videos. Not sure why but I really don't like them! Good luck with the revamp, how fun. Im always moving things around.

I'm excited to see what you do with the library! I love a reset!

Boy am I glad I stuck around for the end and the unboxing! That’s always a treat. I would be interested in your process of culling, maybe after you’ve done a set of shelves you could reflect on how it’s going and whether it’s easier or harder than you anticipated? And a very happy BookTube anniversary! So glad you’ve got this channel and that I found it!

🎉booktube anniversary👏🏻 I share your sentiments re ‘public culling’ 📚😬 I took several (unread) books to a charity shop yesterday - I have to be in a particular mood to see/pick out books long had that I think must move on !! It would be good to have a ‘new library see how it’s going’ peek every month maybe (no pressure though - time flies !) xx

Happy Booktube anniversary!

happy booktube anniversary! I like cull videos. Its interesting to watch how people make decisions to keep or let a book go. I am excited to see how you decide to go with the new library. I cant believe someone would message you about it. Its crazy that people are that invested in your home decor😂😂😂. I do like the idea of catch up type videos in different locations. Help keep things fresh.

Happy booktube anniversaire 😊 Looking forward to your upcoming short-list video with your mom, and I was happy to hear you mention you might revisit your prompt readings while you film together. I'm curious to know what those prompts inspired you to read respectively, and I enjoy your interactions when you film together. I'm pretty sure the book prompts video is the first video I saw of you both together, so having a follow-up on it will have a cozy feel to it. As far as suggestions, maybe you can make a pile of books as you're emptying your shelf of books that stand out as being pivotal in your reading journey for whatever reasons - first book you read of an author that became your favorite, book that you couldn't stop thinking about after finishing, book that changed your view on something, book that you never saw coming and that had a deep effect on you, book that you were excited to read and let you down tremendously... The categories don't have to be predetermined, it could come to you as you're putting books away. (On a side note, I had to look up what "culling" means - as a French speaker, that word was not part of my vernacular yet. I guess you can therefore safely assume that I have not watched a whole lot of culling videos before if I had not learned the term!)

Happy booktube Anniversary! I'm curious to see what you will do with your library.

Happy Anniversary!!! 🎉 Looking forward to seeing the new library!☺

Reading Rejuvenation 🤗📚😘

So excited to see your new vision come to life! 🥰

I can’t believe I’m watching the fall of the library of Savidgeandria

Happy Anniversary 🎉 I can understand missing your books because I love being surrounded by books. I have been wanting to downsize my books too. I love culling videos, I find them inspiring. You have quite the job ahead of you packing and sorting. Would love to know how many boxes you end up with. Excited to see your progress and your new library 📚❤

Congratulations on your book tube anniversary! I have followed your journey for awhile and you should be very proud of your channel! I look forward to many more years! Redecorating sounds exciting! Looking forward to the redo! 💐📚👏

Happy bookish anniversary! Excited to see what you do with the space :)

Good luck, I've got the same boxes but I'm moving so I have to pack my books up and get rid of some 😢 look forward to seeing the revamp of your room 😊

Happy BookTube anniversary! 📚🎂

Happy booktube anniversary! I would love to see a summer reading recommendations and also a May (& April combo?) reading wrap up. Thanks for the vids!

Congratulations, Simon! 🎉 Thanks for all the lovely content and empty wallets you've brought us ❤ I am very much into a seven hour video haha. Loved the pink books as well!

Happy anniversary! I'm just crossing my fingers for the return of the butt vase!

The biggest congratulations on your 8 years on here! Thank you for sharing your love of books and making me excited about reading (and collecting, let’s be honest), haha. The library giving us a glowing (literally) farewell - as the majestic thing it is 👑 Hope you have fun doing this makeover. Love that you are taking your time with it - and keeping it to yourself.

I commented my suggestion for the colour, I missed the part where you said to keep them lol (do it dark so everything will pop including the 📚). Happy booktube anniversary 🎉🎉🎉 and many returns! I discovered you and your mum last year, but my first time seeing you was o the telly in 2020. I was living in Wexford, Ireland at the time and there was this weekly program about books? I don't know the name now but I binge watch it on Sky. And last year I saw you here and said hey that's the guy from that show, and I've been following since 😊

You do you, Simon. I love Renee's shelves from, 'I read this book.'

I agree, I don't enjoy the videos where people get rid of heaps of books. I am super excited to see how you and your mum are getting on with the prompts though, and would love to see your mum choose you a TBR of unread books from your library to try before you pack up. Hope you have a great summer!

Very excited to see your new library later in the year. I like unhaul videos and don't see them as negative, just as a sign of passing on books to people who would enjoy them more. It's also a way of highlighting some books that haven't been seen for a while.

Happy booktube anniversary, your room, your decision, "hell is other people," Jean-Paul Sarte, who cares if they are cross? "Me Sir? Not I Sir." I don't know who said it. Fan of your chatty videos or any others as well. I hope it changes your mind on books set in WWII.😊

Happy 8th anniversary!!! I’m looking forward to seeing how you redecorate. I’d be interested in your culling process, but only if you want. I love unhaul videos actually. I’m always curious about why people decide not to keep something. I can’t afford to do Patreon, so I’d miss it if you did it over there. I’m so glad you’re able to do it at your own pace. We had to move suddenly once, and boxing up all of mine and my partner’s books within three days was an absolute nightmare because we also have a library full. I think it traumatized me.😂

I enjoy watching people redecorating and setting up new areas, so I hope you will video some of your decorating in your library space. I think rooms can become stale, so a change can be refreshing and stimulating. I hope this will be refreshing, stimulating and inspiring for you and your gremlins.

Goodness Simon is this an Aries thing! I’ve decided to freshen up my library, and giving myself 6 months to do it. I will be reading from my shelves before giving books away, and thinking about how many I want to keep. This will be an interesting project and I will be following your changes.

The videos 'unhauling' or 'culling' books that work for me are the ones where the reader speaks about what they enjoyed in the books (and are getting rid of them due to space limitations / not going to be re-reading them) and they reflect on their reading journey, or if they didnt like the book they talk about who they would recommend the book to / what themes in the book could work for someone else.

Culling always seems a negative thing to me so I’m in Camp Simon for that one! I love the quirky (in the nicest possible way) decorating style that you have and I’ll watch the progress avidly. I’d love to see perhaps summer/gardens themed content from your garden, especially with cat cameos. Or kitchen or culinary themes from your fabulous kitchen. But honestly, pretty much anything you do is mandatory viewing in my home!

I'd enjoy a video on books from authors that you have on your shelves, but have not yet read! ❤

My room my rules 😂😂😂

Be interested to see what's going to happen to the old furniture etc - even if it's just you're moving the rug into a different room etc. Or if you're going to bring in stuff you already own. I have just bought my first flat and I have tried to repurpose stuff (which is why my shoe rack is actually a laundry basket) So, I am always keen to see how others rethink or reuse etc.

How about a gentlemen’s club type library? You know a Sherlock Holmes home style..

Oh - Love a roomaround. Any news about the bum vase? I sorted my book shelves a while ago and knackered my elbow - Do be careful. I don't like culling bu tif I do it has to be extreme.

The first video I watched from your channel was in 2015/16? You had just moved in? You were putting books on shelves from boxes. I’d love that again. As you went through you asked viewers if they’d read any, what they’d recommend or unhual.

As a rule I don’t watch book hauls or unhauls? It’s all about the reviews and wrap ups for me😊

🎈Hey Simon, 😲 that it has been 8 wonderful years 🎁🍰. Excited to see new backdrops, for sure...and going cold 🦃 and packing up the shelves is a fabulous opportunity to rejig the collection , to weed out 👨🏻‍🌾 and plan additions 😈 Try out different fantasy reader selves, if you will 🤔 Not a big fan of the📚🪓🗑️, too often done for sensation factor, (hon mention to Alice @The Book Castle who does an annual one, fabulous!) I notice some BTers are very attached to their backdrops, do you feel you will be uncomfortable without yours? Are you dreaming of a very different layout or just a small glow up? Will you be adding new nick-nacks? Our library is due a redecorate, so we'll be going through the same process ( sans 🎥😊)... looking for clues on how to expand our reading - you are very good at this - as it sometimes feels I just read fantasy 🧙and Mr J , WWI 🪖 books! Best to Chris and the 🐈🐈, have a fun summer 🌞, so glad you're feeling 💪 🩷🩷

I don’t watch culling videos….why do we want to know about books someone won’t be owning anymore? What’s the point? I’m mildly curious on why people like them lol. Congrats on the Booktube anniversary 🎉

Can we still expect the wrap-up you’ve mentioned in other videos? And wrap-ups over the summer?

This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change, For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love. William Shakespeare

I don’t understand why people get angry … it’s your house, your library.. not theirs..they need to mind their business.

What ten books are you keeping out to read?

First viewer 🤓

Ps: re culling videos. I want to know what to read, not what not to read.

please do not colour code the books. congrats on your 8th anniversary. dark green is fabulous so is fire engine red.