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Questions:

1. **How do you rate books?** Give a quick rundown of how you do your star ratings (or if you don’t use star ratings, how you evaluate books).
2. **How do you approach reviewing books?** What’s your review style? Are you analytical, emotional, casual, or structured?
3. **What’s the book that made you a reader?** Whether it was your first favorite or the one that got you hooked, what book started it all?
4. **Do you have a genre niche?** Are there certain genres you gravitate toward? Or do you read widely across genres?
5. **Do you generally prefer character-driven or plot-driven stories?**
6. **What’s a book you love so much that you don’t care if others don’t like it?** What’s that one book you love enough for everyone.
7. **What’s a book you love so much that if someone *doesn’t* like it, you know your reading tastes don’t align?** The book or books where a difference of opinion is a strong indicator of different reading preferences.
8. **What’s in your “trash pocket”?** What books, tropes, or themes that you know are bad but you love them anyway? 
9. **Do you have any dealbreakers in books?** Something that, if present, immediately turns you off from a book.
10. **What’s a strong opinion you have about a book released within the last year?** Whether it’s overrated, underrated, or just a take you need to share.
11. **What do you look for in writing?** What makes a book stand out to you? Is it prose style, themes, voice, structure, or something else?
12. **How do you decide what to read next?** Do you plan ahead, mood read, or follow external factors (hype, recommendations, ARCs)?
13. **Where do you get inspiration for your BookTube content?** What sparks your video ideas—other creators, trends, personal reading experiences?
14. **If you could make any book go viral right now, what would it be?** A book you think deserves more attention and why.
15. **Who are some BookTubers with reading tastes similar to yours?**

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