Came across a couple of interesting links (via Freddie deBoer) and I wanted to bookmark them here so I don't lose them.

* Phonics is a fad, but it’s also good, so we should do it anyway, even though it will probably disappoint people

...that article also includes another link to another article, which I also found very interesting:

* Reading Comprehension Is Not a Skill

This Week in Booktube: September 20, 2026

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Twelve Months of Christmas Your Next fivestarexperience Starts Here! There's More to love than Meets the Eye. readmorebooks!

William's Library My Very Short "TBR"

Books I'm Not Reading Friday Reads: No Headspace for Books!

Randy Ray Thank you

Arnella Hobler The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - Cozy Summary | The Chronicles of Narnia

Randy Ray How Well Read Am I, Actually?

Joseph Francis Burton De Vénérande - writing update

William's Library Bookmarked Books And Life Update

Bucky749 Booktube: graphic novel review : dungeon curler, Carl review volume one .

Randy Ray What Happens if You Become a Booktuber

This Week in Booktube: September 13, 2026

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Marian H Weekend Reading + My Role as a BookTuber

Dr Danny Ash | Well-Read, Eventually. The "Lie" About Becoming Well-Read

Randy Ray I need your help.

Reading is a Skill The stalker in my writing group: a story

Abby Reads "A Novel Bookstore" by Laurence Cossé (Translated from the French by Alison Anderson) | A 5P Review

RiffRaff's Reading Renaissance (Mike) The 8,000-Hour Problem: A BookTuber's Take on YouTube's New Rules

Steve Donoghue An Irish Stew Video for 8 September 2026!

Reading IDEAS. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming. James Bond 007 Secret Agent

Reading is a Skill I don't read nearly as much as you think

Marian H Talking Wuthering Heights with My Husband

Twelve Months of Christmas Your Next FIVE STAR Read! Angels in the Snow. From Grief to Joy; Love is in the Air!

Abby Reads "Jeeves Takes Charge" by P G Wodehouse | A 5P Review

Bucky749 Labor Day special pick up

Steve Donoghue The Telegraph's 50 Greatest Books of All Time: A Response!

Molly Tuttle - Rosalee--Sharing Music I Like

This is yet another song I discovered while listening to 88.1.  

There's also an acoustic version.  I'm not sure which version I like better.

This Week in Booktube: September 6, 2026

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Abby Reads "Madame, Or . . ." by Madeleine L'Engle | A 5P Review

Michael Fitzgerald Troy SUPERMAN V. BLOODSPORT by JOHN BYRNE

Marian H Why Is 1984 More Popular than Brave New World?

Twelve Months of Christmas Book VS. Movie: Journey Back to Christmas. Which One Wins?

This Week in Booktube: August 30, 2026

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Abby Reads "Hinterlands" by William Gibson | A 5P Review

Bucky749 Booktube: role of booktuber Booktag

Bucky749 Filsinger games pick up legends pick up ep. 2

Abby Reads The Role of a BookTuber Tag | Reader, Reviewer, Reading Buddy

Marian H This Book Hurt to Read - Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Books I'm Not Reading Re-thinking Monetization on Booktube

Twelve Months of Christmas Movie vs. Book christmasedition! Christmas Kranks vs. Skipping Christmas. Did the Book Prevail?

Abby Reads "Everything on a Waffle" by Polly Horvath | A 5P Review

This Week in Booktube: August 23, 2026

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Working Man Reads A Nazi, a Lifetime, and One of the Saddest Books I’ve Read

Reading is a Skill You're probably wrong about AI book destruction

Abby Reads "The Horse Whisperer" by Nicholas Evans | A 5P Review

Bookish Is There an AI Witch Hunt?

Steve Donoghue Response Video: PROBLEMS with Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings!

Twelve Months of Christmas If You're A Fan of the Hallmark Channel, SKIP This VIDEO! Journey Back to Christmas

Marian H What If You Read It Again? - Why Rereading Books Matters

Bucky749 official 11th YouTube anniversary video

Abby Reads The Solar System Book Tag | Let's recommend some books!

Marian H Overexplaining My Summer Book Haul

Bucky749 Channel trailer: 2026

Twelve Months of Christmas You'll Rethink SKIPPING Christmas AFTER Reading THIS John Grisham Book!

Abby Reads "The God Stealer" by F Sionil Jose | A 5P Review

Revenant Reads My Year of Learning LATIN

Reading IDEAS. Foundation by Isaac Asimov. Book review. Booktube

From CNN: Creating nude deepfakes is rampant among young people — and AI safety education is lacking

This is why we are destroying rural communities to build data centers?  This is why we are increasing our carbon emissions to power data centers?

We need a data center moratorium now.

This Week in Booktube: August 16, 2026

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Steve Donoghue Response Video: The DC Finest Lineup!

Bookish Stop Being Afraid

Twelve Months of Christmas fivestarreview for this christmasbook "My True Love Gave To Me." 1 Book, 4 Novellas, 5 Stars!

Bucky749 Toytube: where one has gone before figure unboxing: The Talosian keeper unboxing

Marian H 5 Epic Films to Watch After The Odyssey

Abby Reads "Guardia de Honor" by Nick Joaquin | A 5P Review

This Week in Booktube: August 9, 2026

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Abby Reads "Come, Lady Death" by Peter S Beagle | A 5P Review

CriminOlly The REAL reason I read so much

Abby Reads "Evelina" by Frances Burney | A 5P Review

Steve Donoghue Epic Comic Book Wednesday: Planet of the Apes

This Week in Booktube: August 2, 2026

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Marian H Villain or Victim? - Ishiguro's Overlooked Masterpiece

Jorge's Corner Cao Xueqin's The Story of the Stone, or Dream of the Red Chamber (c.1760) | Book Review and Analysis

Dream of the Red Chamber Why Dream of the Red Chamber is Subversive

tokyochemist I finished The Story of the Stone! 紅樓夢

Marian H What Heathcliff Really Means to Cathy

Abby Reads The BookTube Newbie Tag REDUX!

Bucky749 Booktube tag : book it to me

CriminOlly Why trashy romances matter more than any Booker prize winner

Bucky749 Samurai volg: reading vlog July 25:2006:comic talk

Books I'm Not Reading Library Tour of Fiction Part Eleven - Slovo to Trevor

jim's books reading & stuff I Never Expected This to Become my Biggest Video

Rebecca Watson is spot on again.  

I Hate the AI Robo Teacher

An important conversation:

This Week in Booktube: July 26, 2026

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Michael K. Vaughan Library of America Tour: Raymond Chandler

Twelve Months of Christmas It's a fivestarreview saturday! Oh Little Town of Progress Shines a spotlight Promoting change.

Dov James Don't Know What BookTube Wants Anymore

Steve Donoghue Rocket Summer 2026: The Snows of Ganymede

Bookish What Are We Doing?

Book Time with Elvis and Randy Ray Books & Banter Live

Nicole's Bookish Nook Under The Same Stars by Libba Bray | Book Review | Tiny Spoilers

The Wild Digest Rocket Summer 2026 - Week 2ish: Star-Begotten by H.G. Wells

Steve Donoghue Last Week in BookTube for 23 July 2026

Mindy's Book Journey The Silent Appeal Book Review

Reading is a Skill But WHY do you want to read more?

Abby Reads A Reading Cycle Wrap Up

jim's books reading & stuff What are YOU Reading Wednesday (62)?

Abby Reads "Franny and Zooey" by J D Salinger | A 5P Review

Bookish Colson Whitehead: Great American Novelist

Reading is a Skill Lessons learned from one year on YouTube

Steve Donoghue What's Your Odyssey?

Bucky749 Movie  storm : the Last Polka (Sctv related movie ) review

Steve Donoghue Last Week in BookTube for 19 July 2026

The Secret Land Grab Powering The AI Boom

Word Family -og | Phonics Song for Kids | Jack Hartmann

I used this video in my classes to help students learn the -og word family.  

Phonics Song 2

I use this video to help some of my students practice the alphabet and basic phonics.

This Week in Booktube: July 19, 2026

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Twelve Months of Christmas Honesty Speaks Loudly in This Book Review of "No Holly No Ivy".

Marian H Is Studying Literature Worth It? - An Outsider's Perspective

Steve Donoghue Last Week in BookTube for 16 July 2026

Book Time with Elvis 10 Lessons from 40 Years of Reading

Steve Donoghue Last Week in BookTube: 14 July 2026

Abby Reads Team Mellstock vs Team Yorkshire | Love Triangles in Hardy and Meyer

jim's books reading & stuff I've Reviewed 275 Books on YouTube—Here's What Actually Gets Views...

Bucky749 Samurai vlog :p.o.V Radom location. Of place from vacation

Twelve Months of Christmas You'll RETHINK the Way You Run Your HOLIDAYS while CELEBRATING this FIVE-STAR Read.

Steve Donoghue Last Week in BookTube! 13 July 2026

Steve Donoghue Last Week in BookTube (and Sirens): 12 July 2026!

Your Master POTUS Reading List: 100+ presidential book recommendations

(Thanks to Freddie Deboer for the link.)  I've actually been thinking for a while now about doing a reading project about the U.S. presidents.  This list may be just what I need to get started.  Bookmarking this here for possible later use.

Addendum: Presidents Day Reading List!

This Week in Booktube: July 12, 2026

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Marian H Wuthering Heights: Romance (Chapters 5–9 Analysis)

Book Time with Elvis Why Adults Stop Reading (And How to Start Again)

Abby Reads "Under the Greenwood Tree" by Thomas Hardy | A 5P Review

Steve Donoghue Epic Comic Book Wednesday: Howard the Duck

Reading is a Skill 9 books that convinced me otherwise (than what the author intended)

Steve Donoghue 22K Answers! Plenty of 'em!

Steve Donoghue Rocket Summer 2026: I, Robot

Steve Donoghue 22K Q&A?

Reading is a Skill "Hate speech" is free speech: a defense of American exceptionalism

Bucky749 My he-man figures villains and others