I haven't been here in years, but this was a lovely video to come back to. I remember when you had just a few hundred followers and had been here maybe a year, finding your channel, and really loving how often you posted videos because it felt like a reliable presence in my life I could find every day that I logged online. It was just so nice to hear about your passion of books right when I first started to get passionate about reading books and eventually writing them myself. Eight years is a long time. Can't wait to celebrate a decade! Wow. Blows my mind.
Thank you, Steve, for your kindness and your friendship. Congratulations on reaching this latest milestone. You are a gift to so many. I’m so grateful for your presence here and in my life. Wishing you many blessings in this Christmas season and good health in the new year.
Congratulations on your subscribers. You are so deserving. My life has been enriched because of you. I've learned so much and found so many wonderful books and authors through you. Love to you and Frieda, and I wish peaceful holidays for you both.
Hi Mr. Steve. Congratulations and just know that people like myself that never comment or interact with your channel, I do watch your videos and I appreciate your contribution to book lovers. Thank you for doing what you do, which is just Being Mr. Steve. We appreciate you. -James & Bella!
Ohh, Steve, you brought a few small tears to my eyes!! You are thanking us, but I feel I need to thank you! Getting my daily Steve fix has helped me through some very difficult years in my last 2 jobs, which were both very tough to get through until I could finally retire earlier this year. By listening to you, I have learnt so much about books, writing, dogs, and life in general. Since I retired, Frieda's example has even encouraged me to try some yoga!! 🐕🧘♀️ Have a well-deserved break!
Hi Steve! Thank you for all the influence you have had on my reading. You pushed me out of my comfort zone (mysteries) and caused me to discover many genres that I had never approached before. Now, there is almost no genre I won’t try! Thanks again and I hope you have a wonderful holiday season and break. Missing you already!!
You have inspired me to read many classics that I might otherwise have overlooked. Just got myself a copy of Bede (History of the English People), which never would have happened without you.
I've been a suscriber for a long time, you're a vital part of my daily life. I even have a notebook with your recommendations. Thank you for every video, every conversation. Gracias and please, always come back to us ❤️.
Hope you had a calm holiday season and that you come back soon I feel I need your online presence to help get through the unsure times we find ourselves in again
Hi Steve. I've been a reader all my life. I was a history teacher for forty years, an elementary librarian for ten years, and a part time Borders Bookstore retail clerk for twenty years. I discovered book tube and your channel two years ago. I have learned so much from watching. I wish I had had a channel like yours when I started reading seventy years ago. I have been watching your older videos and reading older reviews by you. I've learned a lot. Keep up the great work! I hope I am around when your channel hits twenty thousand!
Thank You. For all these years of your time you have spent with us. Your friendship has helped many us through good times and rough times. Hope we see you in 2025. ❤
I am one of the 19K. I was a lapsed reader going over 60 who had decided to get back to reading when I found your vids. I watch all your stuff and it has been very helpful in returning to being a reader. I am reading much more now and have begun to focus on classics. This year read Don Quixote (did not know a book could be so charming), East of Eden (loved Steinbeck since high school) and The Brothers Karamazov (a potential reread, so much in that book). I would like to thank you as a large chunk of the credit goes to you. For never having intentionally watched you, my wife knows a lot about you. I am also watching Michael K. Vaughan., Shaun D. Standfast, Randy Ray, Hannah, and Book Time With Elvis.
Let me add my congratulations Steve! I have picked up some great reading tips and suggestions from you and have been very well entertained along the way!
I just found your channel this year, Steve, and have enjoyed your bookish insights, recommendations, and personality tremendously. And anyone who treats his dog with such love and respect is alright in my book. Looking forward to catching up with you after the calendar flips! My greyhound, Iowa, and poodle, Elsie, send their best to Frieda.
Enjoy your respite, Steve. We’ll see you in 2025 (we hope). Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Year! (I hope you are gifted plenty of Double Stuff Oreos) Been watching since 2016, your notebook on the lap days along side your two big dogs snoozing on the couch.
My first Steve / December break. I came to your channel earlier this year. Your videos have become a large part of my day. Very inspiring, funny, emotional and challenging in the best way. Thank you. I wish I had found your channel sooner, especially during the pandemic. I think it would have helped even me out. Cheers!
This is my first Steve December break as well. Gotta say the video makes me worry a bit as it feels like it has some 'good bye' tones. But it's just a break, right? There are still more books to talk about!
@Boonton2010 There is some of that but in addition to all of life's other weight I suspect it's an emotional process to break away for a bit even if it's for the best. I'll be digging into the archives even more. Cheers!
I've watched your channel for about four years and I've so enjoyed it and learnt about so many books and authors. Many thanks, Steve, and wishing you and Freida a wonderful and peaceful regeneration time!
Hey Steve, I first discovered your channel when you were on Chatting with Nutts, I used to be an SFF reader only. Since then I've been going through a flood of your videos everyday, both old and new. You have utterly overtaken my media consumption. I'm sorry I never interact, not really my forte, but I just wanted to thank you. You have taught me and expanded my horizons, I'm very grateful for all you give.
I’ve read so many great, wild, funny, outrageously weird, heartwarming, sad, puzzling and everything in between books that I never would have found because of your videos, Steve. Love that a quest for pleasurable and joyful reading drives all of your bookish opinions
I'd like to return your thanks Steve. As melodramatic as it sounds, finding your channel this year has been life-changing. You've expanded my reading world immensely and it's hard to remember where so much of my free time was spent before I took to voraciously watching your videos. You've been an unmatched parasocial companion and I don't know how well I'll weather my first mid-December absence. I hope to see you again in 2025.
Thank you for your videos, Steve. I've discovered a lot of books through you and your read a louds were a life saver this year on the times I didn't have the mental energy to read. Enjoy your holidays with Frieda. See you next year!
Thank you for all you do in this booktube world and your other contributions in the book world in general. I have learned so much from you. At times you make it possible for me to laugh, there are times I have been brought to tears by some of your thoughtful commentary, your love of your pets is heartwarming. I have found other booktubers through your recommendations who have become a meaningful part of my life. Again, thank you.
Thank you so much Steve, it's been a few years and you have had such an impact on my reading life. The books, your obvious enthusiasm, and the other bookish people you've introduced have all added greatly to my own pleasure in reading. Thank you.
You are a much treasured part of my life, both here and on Substack. Have a good relaxing holiday, and I have my fingers crossed for your return in the New Year. Congrats on the new total. Now will you give up saying that it won't reach the next benchmark? Do I hear a faint "No" drifting across the Atlantic?
You are a permanent part of our lives. The joys you have experienced in your life from booktube in no way compares with what you have freely given us. I love most your eloquent rants. You have made me laugh more than anyone i know.
It's us that should thank you, Steve. Since the beginning you've added so much to our reading lives and for that I shall always thank you. Hopefully you'll be back in January
Steve I hope you return but If you don't, Thank you for all the videos you've made. Your recommendations and starter kits changed my reading so much! you have opened a new world for me since I watched your western canon starter kit. I hope this isn't the end! everyone here needs our fix of Steve!
Thank you Steve, you've only been a tremendous force of good in a lot of lives during your stint on this platform. Here's hoping your regeneration goes well and we meet again soon.
Its been a great and most unexpected enriching journey Steve..Steve, your fount of knowledge,your bookish chums,Hyde Cottage,years of fur babies,The Brattle and some topping ripping yarns..That particularly Irish grain of humour resonates deeply among us this side of the pond and only too glad to see it travelled the globe enriched and intact..You are without doubt 'The Rascal Chief'....The titular King did reside in Tammany Hall..Thanks Steve..
Your arguable the best reader in history and these youtube videos are a documentation of that. You have opened my eyes to entire categories of books, like biographies that I probably would have never gotten into. It takes me much longer to read a book then you, so because of the amount books I have read because of you, I have spent many hours of my life doing things directly influenced by you. I am vary glad you make these videos and I was able to learn from you.
I get your humour Steve! Just started reading seriously last year with the Iliad and have read (to me) a lot of classics (to you not many) and can feel the magic working, your channel has been a great insight. I love when you have a strong opinion of a book good or bad, it makes me want to read it regardless. Keep doing what you do, thanks 🙏 and if you ever end up in Scotland, let us know
Steve's videos and his year end lists have been the fuel for my reading journey for the last few years. I started watching Steve's videos when I was 25 and he was 28. Now I'm 30, but Steve is still 28 😊.
Thank you! Congratulations! Merry Christmas! Some ideas: a video on your favorite biographies, another on autobiographies, more grouped on subject matters - not just the best but the ones to avoid. Subject titles will make it so I don’t have to wade thru 8,000 more videos! You’ve so greatly enhanced my reading and my life. Thank you again.
Congratulations and thank you! I've gotten a lot from the many hours of enlightenment and diversion provided by your videos. This holiday season, I'm gifting multiple books based on your recommendation, including Journeyer by Gary Jennings and Onward and Upward in the Garden, and I transcribed your Western Canon Starter Kit for my own reference. I hope your break is relaxing and restorative. 😊
Thank you for everything you give. I read the Greek tragedians and Virgil thanks to you and your Western Canon Starter Kit (still working on it 😂), and more recently you gave me the final push to start reading Conan (fantastic). You've also pulled me out of the dumps before with your interesting discussions and kind demeanor. I hope you have a relaxing, well-earned break.
Thanks and congratulations, Steve and Freda. I am always sad at this time of the year when you go for Regeneration, but (all being well), we'll all be back in 2025.
I found you a few years ago and have always loved your content. You are a truly special guy and I appreciate your time and efforts in all you do. I know it's a lot of work and I'm glad it's enjoyable for you. Thanks for being you.
The fact that I love books, that I am a reader at all, would not have existed without your presence here on booktube. That is not an overstatement - I had no idea what it meant to be a passionate, deep and wide-ranging reader before discovering your channel. There are a lot of uncertainties going into 2025, but I hope you come back anyway. Thanks, Steve. -Joshua
I've been watching your videos since 2016, and my reading life has been enriched because of it. Thanks for everything, Steve! Hope to see you back on here next year. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
I haven't been here in years, but this was a lovely video to come back to. I remember when you had just a few hundred followers and had been here maybe a year, finding your channel, and really loving how often you posted videos because it felt like a reliable presence in my life I could find every day that I logged online. It was just so nice to hear about your passion of books right when I first started to get passionate about reading books and eventually writing them myself. Eight years is a long time. Can't wait to celebrate a decade! Wow. Blows my mind.
Watching your channel has meant a lot to me over the years, especially during this period of my life. Thank you Steve, for everything.
You’ve made such an enormous difference in my life-especially when I needed it most. I don’t even know what to say. Thank you for everything.
Thanks for everything Steve. I check my feed almost daily hoping for your return. Hope you and Frieda are well and thriving in the new year.
I miss hearing from my book sherpa every day. Hope you're doing well, my friend.
Hi Steve! 2025 doesn't feel right without your daily videos. ❤
Thank you for changing our reading lives for the better.
Not to mention those other parts of our lives! 😂
Thank you, Steve, for your kindness and your friendship. Congratulations on reaching this latest milestone. You are a gift to so many. I’m so grateful for your presence here and in my life. Wishing you many blessings in this Christmas season and good health in the new year.
Steve, you deserve so much more! Thank you for sharing yourself with us. I hope you have good, peaceful holidays. Lots of love❤️
Hope to hear back from you soon ❤️. Your videos and Steve Streams are huge comfort in these volatile times.
Congratulations on your subscribers. You are so deserving. My life has been enriched because of you. I've learned so much and found so many wonderful books and authors through you. Love to you and Frieda, and I wish peaceful holidays for you both.
Thank you for being here and being someone we have loved watching and engaging with. Hope to see you in January.
Thank you for everything you do, Steve. Youre a gem on this site.
Thank YOU for being there Steve.
Hi Mr. Steve. Congratulations and just know that people like myself that never comment or interact with your channel, I do watch your videos and I appreciate your contribution to book lovers. Thank you for doing what you do, which is just Being Mr. Steve. We appreciate you.
-James & Bella!
Ohh, Steve, you brought a few small tears to my eyes!!
You are thanking us, but I feel I need to thank you! Getting my daily Steve fix has helped me through some very difficult years in my last 2 jobs, which were both very tough to get through until I could finally retire earlier this year.
By listening to you, I have learnt so much about books, writing, dogs, and life in general.
Since I retired, Frieda's example has even encouraged me to try some yoga!! 🐕🧘♀️
Have a well-deserved break!
Congrats, Steve! Thank you for being on this platform.
Thank you for your company, guidance and inspiration! I hope I see you again in 2025! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Thank you for your steady presence and contagious love of books. Enjoy your end of year respite. I hope to see you in the new year.
Wishing you & Frieda a lovely winter break. I hope to see you both on the flip side! ❄️
I've been watching you so long you feel like a member of my family. Thank you for your kind and bookish presence, Steve ❤
Your honesty and erudition provides so much to us as well Steve. Really.
Thank you, and I wish you a happy and pleasant New Year.
Thanks, Steve, I'm so grateful for all the love, laughs and learning you've given.
I've been writing a play, Waiting for Stevedot.
Hope you're doing well, Steve!
Hi Steve! Thank you for all the influence you have had on my reading. You pushed me out of my comfort zone (mysteries) and caused me to discover many genres that I had never approached before. Now, there is almost no genre I won’t try! Thanks again and I hope you have a wonderful holiday season and break. Missing you already!!
Wood and Water, Wind and Tree,
Wisdom, Strength, and Courtesy,
Jungle-Favour go with thee!
Congratulations, you deserve every subscriber! A million kisses to Frieda and you both have a wonderful holiday.
You have inspired me to read many classics that I might otherwise have overlooked. Just got myself a copy of Bede (History of the English People), which never would have happened without you.
Congratulations Steve! I think I’ve been watching since there were a couple hundred maybe. How awesome ❤
I've been a suscriber for a long time, you're a vital part of my daily life. I even have a notebook with your recommendations. Thank you for every video, every conversation. Gracias and please, always come back to us ❤️.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and the sweet little Bean
Hope you had a calm holiday season and that you come back soon
I feel I need your online presence to help get through the unsure times we find ourselves in again
Congratulations, Steve. Happy Holidays to You and Frieda. We'll be here when you return.
Thank you Steve. Your videos have been a wonderful escape for me in this otherwise awful year.
Hi Steve. I've been a reader all my life. I was a history teacher for forty years, an elementary librarian for ten years, and a part time Borders Bookstore retail clerk for twenty years. I discovered book tube and your channel two years ago. I have learned so much from watching. I wish I had had a channel like yours when I started reading seventy years ago. I have been watching your older videos and reading older reviews by you. I've learned a lot. Keep up the great work! I hope I am around when your channel hits twenty thousand!
Thank You. For all these years of your time you have spent with us. Your friendship has helped many us through good times and rough times. Hope we see you in 2025. ❤
Have a very Merry Christmas Steve!!! Hurry back with us! Love your channel!!
I am one of the 19K. I was a lapsed reader going over 60 who had decided to get back to reading when I found your vids. I watch all your stuff and it has been very helpful in returning to being a reader. I am reading much more now and have begun to focus on classics. This year read Don Quixote (did not know a book could be so charming), East of Eden (loved Steinbeck since high school) and The Brothers Karamazov (a potential reread, so much in that book). I would like to thank you as a large chunk of the credit goes to you. For never having intentionally watched you, my wife knows a lot about you. I am also watching Michael K. Vaughan., Shaun D. Standfast, Randy Ray, Hannah, and Book Time With Elvis.
Let me add my congratulations Steve! I have picked up some great reading tips and suggestions from you and have been very well entertained along the way!
I just found your channel this year, Steve, and have enjoyed your bookish insights, recommendations, and personality tremendously. And anyone who treats his dog with such love and respect is alright in my book. Looking forward to catching up with you after the calendar flips! My greyhound, Iowa, and poodle, Elsie, send their best to Frieda.
Enjoy your respite, Steve. We’ll see you in 2025 (we hope).
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Year!
(I hope you are gifted plenty of Double Stuff Oreos)
Been watching since 2016, your notebook on the lap days along side your two big dogs snoozing on the couch.
2017 start for me and your channel is by far my favorite!!! Happy new year to you and Frieda Bean❤
My first Steve / December break. I came to your channel earlier this year. Your videos have become a large part of my day. Very inspiring, funny, emotional and challenging in the best way. Thank you. I wish I had found your channel sooner, especially during the pandemic. I think it would have helped even me out. Cheers!
This is my first Steve December break as well. Gotta say the video makes me worry a bit as it feels like it has some 'good bye' tones. But it's just a break, right? There are still more books to talk about!
@Boonton2010 There is some of that but in addition to all of life's other weight I suspect it's an emotional process to break away for a bit even if it's for the best. I'll be digging into the archives even more. Cheers!
@ yes. It’s a good thing to take breaks and regroup mentally.
Thank you Steve for all these years ❤
I've watched your channel for about four years and I've so enjoyed it and learnt about so many books and authors. Many thanks, Steve, and wishing you and Freida a wonderful and peaceful regeneration time!
Thankful for your presence and huge contribution to us bibliophiles. Not to mention adorable Frieda! Happy 2025!
Hey Steve, I first discovered your channel when you were on Chatting with Nutts, I used to be an SFF reader only.
Since then I've been going through a flood of your videos everyday, both old and new. You have utterly overtaken my media consumption.
I'm sorry I never interact, not really my forte, but I just wanted to thank you. You have taught me and expanded my horizons, I'm very grateful for all you give.
You are an inspiration Steve. Thank you for all the amazing videos ❤
I’ve read so many great, wild, funny, outrageously weird, heartwarming, sad, puzzling and everything in between books that I never would have found because of your videos, Steve. Love that a quest for pleasurable and joyful reading drives all of your bookish opinions
I'd like to return your thanks Steve. As melodramatic as it sounds, finding your channel this year has been life-changing. You've expanded my reading world immensely and it's hard to remember where so much of my free time was spent before I took to voraciously watching your videos. You've been an unmatched parasocial companion and I don't know how well I'll weather my first mid-December absence. I hope to see you again in 2025.
Thank you for your videos, Steve. I've discovered a lot of books through you and your read a louds were a life saver this year on the times I didn't have the mental energy to read. Enjoy your holidays with Frieda. See you next year!
Thank you for another year of bookish insight and inspiration!
Thank you for all you do in this booktube world and your other contributions in the book world in general. I have learned so much from you. At times you make it possible for me to laugh, there are times I have been brought to tears by some of your thoughtful commentary, your love of your pets is heartwarming. I have found other booktubers through your recommendations who have become a meaningful part of my life. Again, thank you.
Merry Christmas Steve and Frieda. I hope you are having a lovely break.
Thank you so much Steve, it's been a few years and you have had such an impact on my reading life. The books, your obvious enthusiasm, and the other bookish people you've introduced have all added greatly to my own pleasure in reading. Thank you.
You are a much treasured part of my life, both here and on Substack. Have a good relaxing holiday, and I have my fingers crossed for your return in the New Year. Congrats on the new total. Now will you give up saying that it won't reach the next benchmark? Do I hear a faint "No" drifting across the Atlantic?
You are a permanent part of our lives. The joys you have experienced in your life from booktube in no way compares with what you have freely given us.
I love most your eloquent rants. You have made me laugh more than anyone i know.
It's us that should thank you, Steve. Since the beginning you've added so much to our reading lives and for that I shall always thank you. Hopefully you'll be back in January
Good morning and congratulations 🍾
Steve. Well said, and thank you.
Steve I hope you return but If you don't, Thank you for all the videos you've made. Your recommendations and starter kits changed my reading so much! you have opened a new world for me since I watched your western canon starter kit. I hope this isn't the end! everyone here needs our fix of Steve!
Much love and joy to you and Frieda, today and always. ♥️💚
We appreciate you, Steve.
Abrazos (Hugs)
☮️🩵📚
Thank you Steve, you've only been a tremendous force of good in a lot of lives during your stint on this platform. Here's hoping your regeneration goes well and we meet again soon.
Steve has been GAINING subs without uploading a vid in the past six weeks. Just shows the quality of his content. Cheers!
Quality is the key word. Steve's insights and depth of knowledge are unmatched.
I’ve always enjoyed your vids and opinions. I don’t comment much but always get a lot from them. Thanks.
Love you too Steve! Hope you have a great mysterious Dr who end-of-the-year break!
And I’ll respond as I always do to your videos:
Thank , Steve.
Enjoy your longish Quiet Time. Looking forward to seeing you next year.
Its been a great and most unexpected enriching journey Steve..Steve, your fount of knowledge,your bookish chums,Hyde Cottage,years of fur babies,The Brattle and some topping ripping yarns..That particularly Irish grain of humour resonates deeply among us this side of the pond and only too glad to see it travelled the globe enriched and intact..You are without doubt 'The Rascal Chief'....The titular King did reside in Tammany Hall..Thanks Steve..
Your arguable the best reader in history and these youtube videos are a documentation of that. You have opened my eyes to entire categories of books, like biographies that I probably would have never gotten into. It takes me much longer to read a book then you, so because of the amount books I have read because of you, I have spent many hours of my life doing things directly influenced by you. I am vary glad you make these videos and I was able to learn from you.
I get your humour Steve! Just started reading seriously last year with the Iliad and have read (to me) a lot of classics (to you not many) and can feel the magic working, your channel has been a great insight. I love when you have a strong opinion of a book good or bad, it makes me want to read it regardless. Keep doing what you do, thanks 🙏 and if you ever end up in Scotland, let us know
Thank you for your wit, experience and fearlessness. See you in 2025!
Steve's videos and his year end lists have been the fuel for my reading journey for the last few years. I started watching Steve's videos when I was 25 and he was 28. Now I'm 30, but Steve is still 28 😊.
Thank you! Congratulations! Merry Christmas!
Some ideas: a video on your favorite biographies, another on autobiographies, more grouped on subject matters - not just the best but the ones to avoid. Subject titles will make it so I don’t have to wade thru 8,000 more videos! You’ve so greatly enhanced my reading and my life. Thank you again.
Thank you for being an online reading friend. Enjoy your rejuvenation time with the beautiful Frida.
Well done and thanks Steve 🤗
Thank you my good man.
Congratulations and thank you! I've gotten a lot from the many hours of enlightenment and diversion provided by your videos. This holiday season, I'm gifting multiple books based on your recommendation, including Journeyer by Gary Jennings and Onward and Upward in the Garden, and I transcribed your Western Canon Starter Kit for my own reference. I hope your break is relaxing and restorative. 😊
My turn to say "thank you Steve". You were (and still are) an important part of my booktube journey. All the best for 2025, - and keep on keepin' on 😊
Steve, thank you for everything you bring to BookTube and shining a little light in my dark corner. Look forward to seeing you again in a New Year.
Thank you for everything you give. I read the Greek tragedians and Virgil thanks to you and your Western Canon Starter Kit (still working on it 😂), and more recently you gave me the final push to start reading Conan (fantastic). You've also pulled me out of the dumps before with your interesting discussions and kind demeanor. I hope you have a relaxing, well-earned break.
Thank you for everything Steve!
Thank you so much for another year clueing us in on your reading life. Love you and Frieda 🧡🧡🧡🧡
We All Love You, Good Sir! Thank You!
Love you, Steve! As always, looking forward to your return.
just saw your channel today. you're very handsome! 😘
Thanks and congratulations, Steve and Freda. I am always sad at this time of the year when you go for Regeneration, but (all being well), we'll all be back in 2025.
I found you a few years ago and have always loved your content. You are a truly special guy and I appreciate your time and efforts in all you do. I know it's a lot of work and I'm glad it's enjoyable for you. Thanks for being you.
Thanks Steve, I've been here since almost the beginning. Now I'm a substack subscriber and finally found you on Bluesky!
Thank you Steve! My husband and I watch your videos and we both enjoy your amazing insights into books. Love Miss Frieda yoga. Your are blessing sir!
The fact that I love books, that I am a reader at all, would not have existed without your presence here on booktube. That is not an overstatement - I had no idea what it meant to be a passionate, deep and wide-ranging reader before discovering your channel. There are a lot of uncertainties going into 2025, but I hope you come back anyway. Thanks, Steve.
-Joshua
Congrats and thanks Steve, watch almost every video you post. Enjoy the end of the year
keep going, you do a wonderful job of explaining books and why you like them, such a passion
You cheered me up so many times in the last 8 years. Thank you Steve and goodbye in 2025.
it's been 84 years
We miss your videos Steve!
Thank you, Steve. I've been here since the first video.
I've been watching your videos since 2016, and my reading life has been enriched because of it. Thanks for everything, Steve! Hope to see you back on here next year. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
i remember the first time i watched 1 of hs videos-still the best youtuber!
We love you Steve ❤