Really loved watching the video and I love love love books can spend my whole day in those books store they look amazing i wish to visit London someday in the future hopefully thank you so much for sharing this video lots of love from India Mumbai 🥰😘❤️
Ida Olsson You're more than welcome to come, the tourist sights are beautiful, but don't expect too much from central london. She was in the west, unfortunately, it's not so grand in central.
When I was a kid in London, I used to spend all my pocket money on fantasy horror books. Even the bookstore owner told me to stop spending all my pocket money on books.
I’m gonna major in comp lit thanks to you introducing the major to me. I also figured out I was dyslexic through your videos. (You and I both ended a long term relationship around the same time.) You have no clue how much your channel means to me. It literally changed the entire course of my life
I've been to London just once in my life but the amount of time i spent in bookstores was obscene...the friend that has travelled with me was definitely annoyed by me hah
Long time since I was last in London, but such a lovely video and merely the sight of all those books makes me happy. You should definitely do a companion piece featuring 2nd hand bookshops if you can - because I think there's something magical about a great 2nd hand bookshop too.
01:52 I can most whole heartedly recommend Croatia as a Travel Destination. I lived in London for a long time but can honestly say I missed out by not exploring the more independent bookshops. When life returns to normal I think a few visits are to be placed in the diary. Oh and spending hours browsing in bookstores is not time wasted.
This videos gives me the cosy vibes and feelings that my grandfathers old Super-8-Films give me. Thank you for that. I really missed that and especially him 💗
This is one of my favourite videos you've made! Such a great idea to show is the bookshops and the editing is amazing too. I would love to see more videos of your favourite places in London ❤️
This makes me want to visit London again. With one suitcase for my clothes etc and an empty one for the books I'll buy... Do you also have recommendations for second hand bookshops in London?
‘Any amount of books’ in Charing Cross is the ultimate secondhand bargain bookshop ( also really charming and family run ). Also, Henry Pordes is great, and conveniently next door to the previous one !!
One of my favorite things I have done in London was to visit the fabulous bookstores you all have! Being from the states Amazon has taken away all of our bookstores. I can't wait to be there again this summer to check out some of your choices. Happy reading!
Holy crap, you know how perfect this is right now, I just got to London for a weekend and I’m only here for like 1more day and me and my sister really wanted to find a good book shop, and here you are, thank you sooo much ❤️
Yesterday, I was frustrated at how little I have read this year. This morning, UA-cam recommended me this video. Coincidence? When I am next in London, I will visit these shops, especially the last one. Also, I love the chill vibe here.
where I live they only really have chain bookstores which always have the same variety of books. I've found a few more unique and specialised shops, but not nearly as many as I've encountered on my travels!!
I love this video so much! I have probably come back and watched it three times or more. All of your videos are great. Seeing your shining face is guaranteed to brighten my day.
At last! Someone sensible. If you get the library app you can scan any book in the shop and find that nine times out of ten they have it. You can reserve it to your local library then you get an email saying its waiting for collection. You can renew via the app if you haven't finished. Unless you keep every book keep your money.... When i go book shopping i rarely spend a penny. I book it on the spot and go home with loads of books. Way beyond my budget. And i dont have to carry them home....Too much info? Well thats being sensible for real. I have saved thousands and really bumped up my reading.....😊
I’ m honestly just gonna keep rewatching this video until I’m finally able to go back to the UK and visit London. Thank you for making such an awesome vid 🥰
not in west london but henry pordes books is my favourite one, it's a second hand bookstore but i love it. it's so small and it smells of dusty old books and everything is so pretty in there if you're into the messy bookshelf aesthetic
Loved the video. I absolutely love book shops, all my friends and family think I’m weird because of it. I love the smell of books, especially the older secondhand ones. And because of your video I just bought the Susan Sontag book! Looks like perfect reference and learning material for my current essay X
@ Simon Lake, I totally agree with you. In the 1970's & 80's there were some fantastic second hand bookshops, especially in & around the Charing Cross Road area, at least 6 or 7. But alas, they have almost all gone ! Such a shame, but it is just too expensive to run such a business in the London area in.
Left London in 2013 and this brought some nostalgia of all the bookshops I went while I was there. Daunt Books in Maryleborne was always my favourite (particulalry since it was quite near where I lived!). Never went to the Serpentine Gallery (though all Muaeums in London have good bookshops, Tate Modern in particular) and the one in Chelsea is a hidden gem indeed. Personal favourites I recommend are Hatchards in 187 Picadilly (big, central and well stocked with an old-school look) and London Review Bookshop (14-16 Bury Place). The latter is petite but well lit and with a coffeshop next too it. At that is right near the Bristish Museum and you're in intellectuial heaven.... Happy New Year from Costa Rica!!!
We were just in London last week and I wish I had seen your video before we left. I would have had been able to convince the people that I was with that these bookshops were a must see. I guess I have to visit again and soon. Thank you for the tour!!
I have a plan of visiting Hay on Wye via London... Now, your video gave me another big reason to extend the stay in London! I loved the video and the shops are amazing!
this video made me miss england and london so much...my favourite book store I HAVE to visit whenever I'm in london is "Any amount of books" (A second hand bookshop) in covent garden :D
I’m watching this & I don’t even live in the UK. Idk why but the bookstores over there are so pleasing etc I wish we had those types of bookstores over here in the US.
going on holiday to london in march and planning to visit all of these! i live in tokyo, so it will be such a luxury to be surrounded by books i can read at a normal pace.
Another good bookstore, it’s located by “Frances Lundy school of dance’ in West London. It’s just called ‘Bookshop’. All the hooks there are cheap and it’s a really nice area as well!
I loved this vlog so much 🥺🥺🥺I have always dreamed about going to England and visit all the beautiful bookshops. Thank you for sharing. Do you have any vlogs about some cool University bookstores in England - Oxford? Cambridge?
I’m going to uni in Bloomsbury, London (a book lover’s dream!) so when I make my commute, I will definitely go and check out these bookstores! Thank you for growing my “bookstore” map!
LOVE this video, am definitely going to check these out! As a fellow Londoner and Lit graduate (aka book nerd) I would like to recommend Gay's The Word for all the Sapphic energy your heart could desire - it's entirely LGBT+ books, both fiction and non-fiction, and they give you a free bookmark with your purchase!
Very entertaining video, ive been to notting hill once. Yrs ago! Its a lovely town. But ive been the film a good few times. Lol obvs. :P Aww the memories of living in london. 🤗 Such fun.
Very interesting - I've been many times to London and have many Favorite bookshops there but I've never been to any of those so I have something fun to explore next time.
Could you do Used & Rare Book Shops of London next? I haven't been to London in years, but prowled many a used book shop blissfully then. Thanks for this video - brought back lots of pleasant memories for me.
I love bookstores. I'm keeping your list, should I ever make it back to London-now I have an extra incentive. Should you ever make it to Portland, Oregon, check out Powell's City of Books. You'll go nuts.
I work in Michigan, south bend India. , Jeffersonville Indiana, shepherdsville Kentucky which they have no used book stores. We still have one in Los Angeles called the last bookstore. Downey California
Great work, Emma. I will visit them the next time I visit London. Did you happen to drop in at Black Gull Books in Camden Market? I picked up two Greenes from there. Nice, quaint place.
Thank you all for the love on this video, an if you're wondering, yah girl does have a goodreads 😘😘 www.goodreads.com/sarcastic_fish
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Could you do a similar video but with Second Hand bookshops please, I think it will me amazing
Really loved watching the video and I love love love books can spend my whole day in those books store they look amazing i wish to visit London someday in the future hopefully thank you so much for sharing this video lots of love from India Mumbai 🥰😘❤️
I saw your film from Iran. You and your movie are very beautiful. I have a bookstore in Iran
When you're not from the UK & you're jealous. What a fantasy of bookshops...😅💕
Australia could never
@@jotarosbae4343 oz is a new world wasteland thats why ozzies come to uk
Spain neither
as someone that lives in london it's nice but some places are reaallly ugly and boring
Me too I’m literally the opposite, my place has the worst books store and library, i tremendously want to go there.😬😊😊
this literally makes me want to move to London NOW
Me too but I think it going to be very hard to move there.😬😬
me too, like ive just fallen in love with England
I live in london, it's- it's not that fabulous 😔
-Venuss - well i live in sweden and from here, London looks quite tempting 😮 or just England overall, the countryside is actually kinda more fitting 😗
Ida Olsson You're more than welcome to come, the tourist sights are beautiful, but don't expect too much from central london. She was in the west, unfortunately, it's not so grand in central.
My God, I love the smell of books. Nice video, thanks for this.
Oh yeeeeesss me to😊
When I was a kid in London, I used to spend all my pocket money on fantasy horror books. Even the bookstore owner told me to stop spending all my pocket money on books.
😂😂😂 Hey, that bookstore owner was getting your money, so why did he complain?
@@Musicienne-DAB1995 Exactly 😂
omg so cute
@@Musicienne-DAB1995 Bookstore owners are so kind and just probably worried
@@RamRammyRam True 👍
I’m gonna major in comp lit thanks to you introducing the major to me. I also figured out I was dyslexic through your videos. (You and I both ended a long term relationship around the same time.) You have no clue how much your channel means to me. It literally changed the entire course of my life
i never responded to this, im such a dick my bad, i read this at the time tho, it did and does mean a lot to me
Hello dear i am from india 💚🇮🇳💚 i loves books like .
I've been to London just once in my life but the amount of time i spent in bookstores was obscene...the friend that has travelled with me was definitely annoyed by me hah
That would have been me! My hubby is ever so patient with me when I step into a bookshop, but I know he must be crying inside!!
This video is actually such an inspiration to read, I've got a small stack at home and now I just want to spend all Christmas reading. Love it 💙
Long time since I was last in London, but such a lovely video and merely the sight of all those books makes me happy. You should definitely do a companion piece featuring 2nd hand bookshops if you can - because I think there's something magical about a great 2nd hand bookshop too.
An endangered species unfortunately. Charing Cross Road ain't what it used to be.
Perfect video in these terrible times, makes your realise what were missing right now and what we've got to look forward to again
01:52 I can most whole heartedly recommend Croatia as a Travel Destination. I lived in London for a long time but can honestly say I missed out by not exploring the more independent bookshops. When life returns to normal I think a few visits are to be placed in the diary. Oh and spending hours browsing in bookstores is not time wasted.
This videos gives me the cosy vibes and feelings that my grandfathers old Super-8-Films give me. Thank you for that. I really missed that and especially him 💗
One can not simply walk into a bookstore and not buy something! ❤❤❤
This is one of my favourite videos you've made! Such a great idea to show is the bookshops and the editing is amazing too. I would love to see more videos of your favourite places in London ❤️
I absolutely adore books for cooks since my aunt worked there for 20 years and my mum worked there for a while and it has such a sweet nostalgia
This makes me want to visit London again. With one suitcase for my clothes etc and an empty one for the books I'll buy...
Do you also have recommendations for second hand bookshops in London?
Christophe S Tbh my fave second hand gems have been from charity shops! Oxfam Hampstead comes at the top as they always have such a great selection :)
@@Dessylyly Thanks for the tip!
‘Any amount of books’ in Charing Cross is the ultimate secondhand bargain bookshop ( also really charming and family run ). Also, Henry Pordes is great, and conveniently next door to the previous one !!
no joke i think ur my new fave youtuber and i’ve never even watched any of ur vids before this ❤️❤️
One of my favorite things I have done in London was to visit the fabulous bookstores you all have! Being from the states Amazon has taken away all of our bookstores. I can't wait to be there again this summer to check out some of your choices. Happy reading!
Thanks Emma, your lovely, breezy, personality, helped make the tour more enjoyable and interesting.
Holy crap, you know how perfect this is right now, I just got to London for a weekend and I’m only here for like 1more day and me and my sister really wanted to find a good book shop, and here you are, thank you sooo much ❤️
Hello helina have you read Helen keler.
Yesterday, I was frustrated at how little I have read this year. This morning, UA-cam recommended me this video. Coincidence? When I am next in London, I will visit these shops, especially the last one. Also, I love the chill vibe here.
where I live they only really have chain bookstores which always have the same variety of books. I've found a few more unique and specialised shops, but not nearly as many as I've encountered on my travels!!
I love this video so much! I have probably come back and watched it three times or more. All of your videos are great. Seeing your shining face is guaranteed to brighten my day.
Do we all agree that bookshops are paradise on earth ?
Thanks for this video! I can now add some new bookshops to my 'to visit when in London'-list!
My favourite bookshop: thrift shops !
I once got 20 books for the price of one new book
While browsing a thrift shop I once got a mint condition set of four William Faulkner novels for the price of one novel in the set.
At last! Someone sensible. If you get the library app you can scan any book in the shop and find that nine times out of ten they have it. You can reserve it to your local library then you get an email saying its waiting for collection. You can renew via the app if you haven't finished. Unless you keep every book keep your money.... When i go book shopping i rarely spend a penny. I book it on the spot and go home with loads of books. Way beyond my budget. And i dont have to carry them home....Too much info? Well thats being sensible for real. I have saved thousands and really bumped up my reading.....😊
I dont even live in London but stil I'm watching this ❤️
My first video of yours and what a feast for someone like me who is always up for books related stuff (especially Book Stores) 📚
I’ m honestly just gonna keep rewatching this video until I’m finally able to go back to the UK and visit London.
Thank you for making such an awesome vid 🥰
I highly recommend Nobel prize winner, Kazuo Ishiguro. Daunts, Marylebone, is great for its talks too such as with Julian Barnes last month.
loved this video! youve been working on it for so long and i can deffs see the hard work youve put into it
not in west london but henry pordes books is my favourite one, it's a second hand bookstore but i love it. it's so small and it smells of dusty old books and everything is so pretty in there if you're into the messy bookshelf aesthetic
Loved the video. I absolutely love book shops, all my friends and family think I’m weird because of it. I love the smell of books, especially the older secondhand ones. And because of your video I just bought the Susan Sontag book! Looks like perfect reference and learning material for my current essay X
Oh I'm jealous. I wish I can go there. Big hope ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@ Simon Lake, I totally agree with you. In the 1970's & 80's there were some fantastic second hand bookshops, especially in & around the Charing Cross Road area, at least 6 or 7. But alas, they have almost all gone ! Such a shame, but it is just too expensive to run such a business in the London area in.
Left London in 2013 and this brought some nostalgia of all the bookshops I went while I was there. Daunt Books in Maryleborne was always my favourite (particulalry since it was quite near where I lived!). Never went to the Serpentine Gallery (though all Muaeums in London have good bookshops, Tate Modern in particular) and the one in Chelsea is a hidden gem indeed.
Personal favourites I recommend are Hatchards in 187 Picadilly (big, central and well stocked with an old-school look) and London Review Bookshop (14-16 Bury Place). The latter is petite but well lit and with a coffeshop next too it. At that is right near the Bristish Museum and you're in intellectuial heaven....
Happy New Year from Costa Rica!!!
the notting hill bookshop was a dream-like visit. Lovely, a little too tiny (lol) and a unique experience I would recommend everyone to have.
Superb. Bookstores and books are my faithful love.
Omg now I know what I'm gonna be doing next time I'm in london !!
You definitely had a really beautiful day! I'm so jelly.. Not so many bookstores in my island Bali to explore.
Me too, so jelly.
We were just in London last week and I wish I had seen your video before we left. I would have had been able to convince the people that I was with that these bookshops were a must see. I guess I have to visit again and soon. Thank you for the tour!!
You did a really good job filming and editing this.
It was really a joy to watch. Thanks!
Keep at it
I have a plan of visiting Hay on Wye via London... Now, your video gave me another big reason to extend the stay in London! I loved the video and the shops are amazing!
Daunt is literally my favorite book shop!!! I visited back last October and went to it at least 3 times while I was there! ✨
this video made me miss england and london so much...my favourite book store I HAVE to visit whenever I'm in london is "Any amount of books" (A second hand bookshop) in covent garden :D
I love seeing individual happy that's make me happy I'm enjoying seeing you enjoying
Gna start my comp lit postgrad programme in London next September, thanks for being such an inspiration!
I didn’t even know I needed this video, but damn this is so helpful!
I’m watching this & I don’t even live in the UK. Idk why but the bookstores over there are so pleasing etc I wish we had those types of bookstores over here in the US.
Omg you give us the best possible content ever!!! Thank you so much! 😍 also, I've recently bought the Susan Sontag one, I hope I could read it soon.
Stumbled upon this vlog. Really enjoyed it. Just subscribed off the back of it. Looking forward to future vlogs.
i want to travel all over the world just so i can go to neat bookshops!!
Love it! Londen, best place on Earth. Will never leave.
going on holiday to london in march and planning to visit all of these! i live in tokyo, so it will be such a luxury to be surrounded by books i can read at a normal pace.
Aw these places look lovely! Can't wait to go to London and check them out :)
I love browsing around book stores!
4:58 I used to be really into Anatomy, and I have that exact edition!
I saw the Little Prince in there!! Ugh, my favorite.
Another good bookstore, it’s located by “Frances Lundy school of dance’ in West London. It’s just called ‘Bookshop’. All the hooks there are cheap and it’s a really nice area as well!
I loved this vlog so much 🥺🥺🥺I have always dreamed about going to England and visit all the beautiful bookshops. Thank you for sharing. Do you have any vlogs about some cool University bookstores in England - Oxford? Cambridge?
Wow I’m impressed that’s really amazing ! I wish u visited Waterstones as well !! ♥️♥️♥️
I’m going to uni in Bloomsbury, London (a book lover’s dream!) so when I make my commute, I will definitely go and check out these bookstores! Thank you for growing my “bookstore” map!
LOVE this video, am definitely going to check these out! As a fellow Londoner and Lit graduate (aka book nerd) I would like to recommend Gay's The Word for all the Sapphic energy your heart could desire - it's entirely LGBT+ books, both fiction and non-fiction, and they give you a free bookmark with your purchase!
I love your energy and I will definitely be visiting London some day to go to all these places 😍
5:26 You did say that right.
Ah bookshops just make me so happy😍💕
Very entertaining video, ive been to notting hill once. Yrs ago! Its a lovely town. But ive been the film a good few times. Lol obvs. :P Aww the memories of living in london. 🤗 Such fun.
Oh my gGoddess, Do I love a good book store, so thanks for sharing some wonderful books store from London.
i would like to highly recommend visiting Nostalgia Bookshop in the very heart of Birmingham center, it's fantastic!
London has so many cute little streets of terrace houses!It looks so perfect to and pretty!
Very interesting - I've been many times to London and have many Favorite bookshops there but I've never been to any of those so I have something fun to explore next time.
Yay you are back! Hope all is well X
Liberia in East London (Shoreditch) is the cutest book shop! I loved it, and the shop assistants helped me get a book ! X
When I’m next in London I’m definitely visiting these! Thank you!
Everything about this video makes me happy, absolutely fantastically well made video Emma! 👌🏻
Hello sir how are you.
Very nice book shop
Have you read Helen keler
I love this video!! Is there any chance you could do another of wheelchair accessible bookshops? X
Found your channel after this video was recommended to me. Absolutely love your other videos as well!
8:21 (right )There is a book about Turkish culture! I’m Turkish then thats so big suprise for mee
Yes omg love Daunt Books went there when I visited my aunt in London
im from canada and this is making me want to travel to the UK just to visit these bookstores! wonderful video 💕
Best two bookshops in London imo are The Atlantis Bookshop in Holborn, and Treadwells near Bloomsbury
You missed Hatchards! I know they’re owned by Waterstones, but they’re still VERY good. Will definitely check out John Sandoe.
Ahhh see they’re in central London, not west London 👀👀👀
Emma Angeline yeah. Close to work. And I’m getting a few Xmas gifts. Hopefully they’ll be re-gifted.
Love this video, I get to see a beautiful city!
So woowww. OhmyGod!!! Really wow. I love to see books too.
Could you do Used & Rare Book Shops of London next? I haven't been to London in years, but prowled many a used book shop blissfully then. Thanks for this video - brought back lots of pleasant memories for me.
I love bookstores. I'm keeping your list, should I ever make it back to London-now I have an extra incentive. Should you ever make it to Portland, Oregon, check out Powell's City of Books. You'll go nuts.
Watkins bookstore with spiritual and self development stuff. Nice to see girl busy with books.
I work in Michigan, south bend India. , Jeffersonville Indiana, shepherdsville Kentucky which they have no used book stores. We still have one in Los Angeles called the last bookstore. Downey California
Great work, Emma. I will visit them the next time I visit London. Did you happen to drop in at Black Gull Books in Camden Market? I picked up two Greenes from there. Nice, quaint place.
Omg thank you soo much i was looking for a good bookstore and some of these are great, I will be visiting them very soon ( when lockdown's over)
i am in london today and i dug up this video (already watched) so hopefully i'll get to visit a few
do you remember where your jacket is from??🥰
If you want a different experience I highly recommend Watkins Books and Treadwells.
This video deserves more likes!! Now I want to visit all those beautiful bookshops, last one was my favvvvv. Also, that intro??? A ma zing
Absolutely love how you've edited this video. Can't wait to visit some of these bookshops
Charing Cross Road there are some good bookshops. Also away from London in Rochester Kent there is Baggins the bookshop.
What a super awesome, informative and asthetically pleasing video!
Brb I’m moving to London ✌🏽
Hi, from the U.S. Thanks for this virtual visit.
I recommend skoob in holborn, its a little hidden and it also has stacks on stacks of books (and a piano)!