Ruby Granger #46 Actively making time for boredom

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Norigh

I thought Claire did not seem very enthuastic about this thing anyway, but honestly, I can't blame her. At least this was my impression.

Btw, I really cannot wait to read Rubys dissertation! Surely it should be published somewhere?
Also, publishing a book would be great, too. Finally something to gossip properly about :/
 
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This thread has spent a long time saying how Ruby should go into archiving because she seems to care more about the physical objects than the texts, and now freaks out when she does just that.
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I think the problem is that she doesn't appear to actually care about books as physical objects either.

She just latched onto the "books as objects" thing because she thinks it validates her transparently superficial interest in literature. It's an incredibly convenient topic for her to bring up any time she's caught just harping on about the beautiful covers and pretty pictures while never having a single thought to offer for the actual contents of any book she professes to have read. But she doesn't show any care for physical books other than as handy, disposable props to further her fake bookworm persona.

She eagerly mishandles and trashes her own books, including rare texts and first editions. Her home library is a disaster of heaped books thrown into a random room to gather dust. She tosses first edition books in her bag to get bashed around (and quickly fall apart) just so she can have an old book to wave around as a prop in videos. She wandered around with stacks of borrowed library books getting soaked in the rain, just so she could be seen on camera with an armful of books on Oxford campus. She slathers books in toothpaste and paint. The first thing she did when buying a rare, first edition book in France was to get an ink stamp printed in it, to the horror of the bookseller.

I wouldn't trust her to look after the book section of her local charity shop for 5 minutes, let alone work with an archive of valuable, rare texts full-time.
 
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Thehogonthelog

gossip_guy said:
I think the problem is that she doesn't appear to actually care about books as physical objects either.

She just latched onto the "books as objects" thing because she thinks it validates her transparently superficial interest in literature. It's an incredibly convenient topic for her to bring up any time she's caught just harping on about the beautiful covers and pretty pictures while never having a single thought to offer for the actual contents of any book she professes to have read. But she doesn't show any care for physical books other than as handy, disposable props to further her fake bookworm persona.

She eagerly mishandles and trashes her own books, including rare texts and first editions. Her home library is a disaster of heaped books thrown into a random room to gather dust. She tosses first edition books in her bag to get bashed around (and quickly fall apart) just so she can have an old book to wave around as a prop in videos. She wandered around with stacks of borrowed library books getting soaked in the rain, just so she could be seen on camera with an armful of books on Oxford campus. She slathers books in toothpaste and paint. The first thing she did when buying a rare, first edition book in France was to get an ink stamp printed in it, to the horror of the bookseller.

I wouldn't trust her to look after the book section of her local charity shop for 5 minutes, let alone work with an archive of valuable, rare texts full-time.
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I think it's an easy choice for her to focus on 'books as objects' as it still allows her to have the bookish aesthetics and be a part of dark macadamia while having only a shallow understanding of literature. Even from her last video we can see that she can only talk about ya.
 
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I would honestly be interested in her thoughts about books as object's or what the term actually means to her other than she likes a cover ect. To me it would make me think about early modern publishing and production in regards to the materiality of the books. I would also consider factors such as literacy and how people engaged with books and perhaps engaged with them.

Instead Ruby seems to use the phrase to make herself look scholarly though I doubt she could say more than a vague sentence if she was asked to expand on it. I do wish that she actually explains why she is interested in something or why she likes something other than it just saying that it's 'cool.'
 
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Redrose97 said:
I would honestly be interested in her thoughts about books as object's or what the term actually means to her other than she likes a cover ect. To me it would make me think about early modern publishing and production in regards to the materiality of the books. I would also consider factors such as literacy and how people engaged with books and perhaps engaged with them.

Instead Ruby seems to use the phrase to make herself look scholarly though I doubt she could say more than a vague sentence if she was asked to expand on it. I do wish that she actually explains why she is interested in something or why she likes something other than it just saying that it's 'cool.'
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Every time she mentions ”bocks as OBJACTS” I remember the time she ”tried bookbinding”, as well as the time she randomly painted her copy of The Lais of Marie de France all over with what I can only assume was Tipp-Ex, and I just cringe for her. She’s not good at writing books, she hasn’t convinced me she’s particularly good at reading them, and overall she doesn’t have a great track record of keeping them in good shape.
 
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gossip_guy said:
I think the problem is that she doesn't appear to actually care about books as physical objects either.

She just latched onto the "books as objects" thing because she thinks it validates her transparently superficial interest in literature. It's an incredibly convenient topic for her to bring up any time she's caught just harping on about the beautiful covers and pretty pictures while never having a single thought to offer for the actual contents of any book she professes to have read. But she doesn't show any care for physical books other than as handy, disposable props to further her fake bookworm persona.

She eagerly mishandles and trashes her own books, including rare texts and first editions. Her home library is a disaster of heaped books thrown into a random room to gather dust. She tosses first edition books in her bag to get bashed around (and quickly fall apart) just so she can have an old book to wave around as a prop in videos. She wandered around with stacks of borrowed library books getting soaked in the rain, just so she could be seen on camera with an armful of books on Oxford campus. She slathers books in toothpaste and paint. The first thing she did when buying a rare, first edition book in France was to get an ink stamp printed in it, to the horror of the bookseller.

I wouldn't trust her to look after the book section of her local charity shop for 5 minutes, let alone work with an archive of valuable, rare texts full-time.
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All of this. Seriously. If I were hiring her and watched her videos I would not give her the job of handling books, regardless if they were new or antique. She has filthy hands, treats books very roughly, allows them to be ripped, stained, bent, stuff in shelves, thrown about, you name it. Everything you are not supposed to do. I would be looking to employ someone with careful and gentle manners, respect for "books as an object", and with a passion for helping others find the appropriate resources rather than someone trying to grab a job in Dark Macademia looking for a photo shoot to put up on their social media.
 
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She never has a proper review to give about books that she had 'read', whenever she does 1000 books I read this week type videos she often comments on the cover, and gives a very vague idea of the plot but never really offers any deep or meaningful insight into the plot, character relationships, messaging etc. I think she either doesn't read most of them - except the boarding school ones - or she skims them on a superficial level and pretends to understand them.
 
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Oh, look, another holiday with the parents undeclared ad campaign for RAMADEEEE KYOMBYOOCHAAAA.
 
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Roobee and her fakeles like it when people send her semi-creepy fan edits of her and Basst Frand Baloney. She will reward you with her best O face!

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edit: oh noes I didn’t refresh before posting, sorry for the repetition! To make up for it, here’s another writing sample.

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Word of the week - apocryphal! Or, as Ruby says repeatedly, aPOFFrickal.
How does she publish so many ‘educational’ reels without catching the mistakes in them?
 
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In Ruby’s latest word of the week (🙄) she pronounces the word ‘apocryphal’ (as in, the word the video is about) as ‘apophrycal’ FOUR times. It’s one thing to mispronounce a word; mispronouncing a word that you’re making a whole video about FOUR TIMES is an utter embarrassment 🤣🤣

 
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