What we observe. What we infer.

Bookitis policy

Coverage is a selected window

Bookitis follows a selected set of indexed, eligible YouTube channels. We collect public channel and video information through the documented YouTube Data API and related discovery processes. Our pages describe that indexed sample—not every creator, reader, sale, or conversation.

Bookitis policy

The weekly conversation

The weekly list covers the rolling seven days immediately before the current snapshot. A book qualifies when at least one eligible public video from an indexed creator has an active Bookitis link to that work and the video was published during that period.

Each creator counts once per work. Books are ranked by distinct creator count; ties use the case-insensitive first alphabetic character and then full name of the creator before recency and stable catalog order. Current and previous snapshots drive the New, Up, Down, and Steady labels.

Bookitis policy

Topics require evidence and approval

Book metadata and video analysis can suggest topic evidence. Inherited and directly observed evidence remain distinguishable. A topic appears publicly only after the current threshold of at least three eligible books and three eligible videos.

Confidence, supporting evidence, processor version, and expiry remain attached to inferred signals. Editor actions to attach, remove, hide, rename, merge, or split a topic survive later automation.

Bookitis policy

Hidden gems are reviewed

A hidden-gem candidate enters review only after explicit positive recommendation language from at least four independent creators for the same work during the prior 30 days. An editor researches broader reception and visibility before approval.

“Hidden gem” is a discovery designation, not a quality certification, paid endorsement, or objective fact.

Bookitis policy

Controls override automation

• Legal, safety, privacy, source availability, and opt-out controls always win.
• Active editor locks take precedence over relationship automation.
• Verified-creator assertions for their own videos take precedence over approved automated candidates.
• Editorial explanations require approval, and revisions remain auditable.

Bookitis policy

Every public link has a reason

Public video–book links use the ranked-data-eligibility-v1 contract. Each link needs an authoritative catalog identity and evidence that the public post discusses that work, or an attributable creator/editor assertion.

The public Why this link? disclosure shows matched fields, a coarse confidence band, origin, review state, methodology version, and a source link. Rights-safe excerpts may be shown; private review notes and raw provider payloads remain withheld.

Bookitis policy

We point back to the original

Video and channel cards link to YouTube. Bookitis does not claim ownership of creator titles, thumbnails, images, descriptions, or other original content. Bibliographic records and covers carry nearby provider attribution.

Creators can request corrections, claim a channel, hide a claimed channel, opt out durably, or restore participation. Source-expired, private, unavailable, hidden, or opted-out material is excluded from public pages.