My library |

In this video I'm presenting the first of seven shelves in my library. I'm only picking out a few books and authors, but if you see any titles or authors that you're interested in, please let me know in the comments I'll try to make a separate video about that author or book.
Authors mentioned:
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
Edgar Allan Poe
Dino Buzzati
Italo Calvino
Grazia Deledda
Karl Lebrecht Immermann
Vladimir Nabokov
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Adalbert Stifter
Paul Heyse
Terry Pratchett
E.T.A. Hoffmann
M.-Y. ben-Gavriel
Friedrich de la Motte-Fouqué
Ludwig Tieck
Johann Karl Wezel
Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow
Johann Gottfried Schnabel
Leonardo Sciascia
Stefano Benni
Susanna Tamaro
Elsa Morante
Primo Levi
Israel Jakob Singer
Zoran Zivkovic
Roald Dahl
D.H. Lawrence
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[@JosephFrancisBurton]

Good grief, your personal library is gorgeous. I confess I was thinking to myself during your opening photo 'that can't be his library, no it cannot be, it is a screensaver, no! NO! Oh my,.. it really IS his library!' Anyway, I am always glad to see some music CD's included in any bookshelf tour. thank you for the video.

[@polyglotreading]

Thank you! I'm afraid the times of music CDs are coming to an end 😥

[@mildrumpus]

You have one of the most gorgeous libraries that I have ever seen. LOVE.

[@polyglotreading]

Thanks for this kind comment, very much appreciated 😊

[@Angie-la-bibliotheque]

Super vidéo David ! Tes livres sont magnifiques, j'aimerais tellement avoir une bibliothèque comme celle-là pour y ranger des tas de livres.

[@polyglotreading]

Salut Angie, quel plaisir de te lire à nouveau ! Merci d'être passée par ici. Je te souhaite d'avoir bientôt des étagères assez grandes pour y ranger plein de super livres 😊

[@heathereads]

You should also talk about your music collection, and if you listen to music while you read do you have recordings you particularly like?

[@polyglotreading]

great suggestion, Heather, thank you. I'll put it on my list of ideas for future videos 😊

[@polyglotreading]

.... while reading, I can only listen to music without vocals, otherwise my brain's language processing unit crashes 😅. Preferably something 'calm' without extreme / aprupt changes in speed or volume. But it can be classical music, jazz, rock,.. you name it. I have a few favorite combinations though, - might be worth a video 😊

[@heathereads]

David your books are beautiful. Do you read these or do you prefer to keep these pristine and read less valuable copies of the same works? If you do read the beautiful ones, you must have some good tips for caring for books. You should share those

[@polyglotreading]

Hi Heather, I do read and annotate these books (pencil). No special rules, I just don't eat while reading, and the really old ones I do not take to the beach 😊

[@schizzyschiz]

Do you use these beautiful bibliophile editions for actual reading or do you have cheap reading copies?

[@polyglotreading]

Thanks for the comment. I do read these books and I also annotate (pencil). Actually, I bought most of the bibliophile editions second hand, at very reasonable prices (I started collecting when I was still a student with a very limited budget)