BoyWiki: Why start a library?
Zoomzoom4: All my life, I have had a love of reading. I guess you could say, even at a very early age I already knew that I was a BL. That is, book lover. My mom had a humongous collection of books, hardcover, and from the time I could barely walk I was trying to read them. In elementary school, it was always such a treat to ride my bike to the book store down the road and see what new stuff came out that week. I would do this every Saturday.
As a teen, I remember I'd go to the library at UNLV, and it was humongous, 4 stories tall, I think, and with SO MUCH stuff, just everything, anything, and more. I'd get lost there. And then even when I became a student there, I'd actually go there at 1 or 2 in the morning, with a bottle of liquor in my bag, and find a super isolated desk in one of the little study rooms, and close the door and get shit-faced and read.
More recently, I would purchase non-fiction books about boylove -- physical copies -- and before I knew it, I had a little collection on my hands. I remember thinking to myself, that many people sort of end up building their own libraries, or at least that how it looks, simply because they've collected so many books. Like with my mom, for example. She had her own little library at home. And I realized that the library I was building consisted entirely of boylove books. And so I thought to myself, I'm building a boylove library. And of course that was followed by a mental "lol" ... because I wasn't "trying" to build any kind of library of BL books, it just so happened that I was buying and reading alot of them. And I thought it was so cool that they were physical books. Having actual books, published books, that are about boylove, is awesome.
But the problem with physical books is, they're not easy to hide, especially when you have a lot of them. And at that time in my life, I was looking at having to move back in to my parents' house. And my brother lived there too. So in that scenario, I started to think of my BL book collection in a different light. It became more like, "How can I most effectively hide this?" As everything in a boylover's life becomes, when he's facing an upcoming major compromise in his privacy, and ability to keep things private.
So I ended up throwing the books away. That's right, I put them in a black garbage bag, took it to the car and drove over to a dumpster on the other side of town. I know you're thinking, that must have been horrible, having to do that, having to dispose of something that I spent a lot of time and money building, growing it. Then, just to be forced to trash it. But I was consoled by the knowledge that I could still own these books. I could still have them, read them, enjoy them. I would just not have them in physical form. They'd be on my computer, on my tablet. If I wanted to have any kind of "BL Library" I could just easily do it in the digital world. Pus, if the books are in digital format and live online, in the cloud, it would be so much easier for me to share them with other boylovers who I know will appreciate them.
But of course, I wasn't really trying to make any kind of BL book collection. Or was I?
As I gave it more thought, it occurred to me that there really was no place on the internet that touts itself as a library of BL books, with a comprehensive collection of both fiction and non-fiction, plus every BL magazine that has come out over the past few decades.
So why not create one, myself? It's not too extremely difficult, tech-wise, and even still, I've got some very smart friends who could help me with that stuff.
BoyWiki: Who is involved?
Zoomzoom4: We actually started this project in 2021, and at the time it was just me and Boiforever. Now it is me, Boiforever, Turkboy, Gary, Jamieboy, aboysXO and Lil Monster.
BoyWiki: What do you hope to include there / plans for the future?
Zoomzoom4: The big, over-riding vision when it comes to the BL Library is comprehensiveness. I want it to be full, complete. Whatever title a reader might be thinking of, I want to make sure we have it. Every BL book ever published, both fiction and non-fiction, and every issue of every magazine ever published.
Our plan for the future is to expand our offerings to include other media such as videos -- both fiction and non-fiction -- and radio/streaming podcasts with topics relevant to BL and boylovers. With regard to the videos, when I say "fiction" I'm talking about Hollywood movies where boylove, or man/boy relationships of some similar kind, are depicted. There's not very many, to be honest, but there's a few. More than you might think.
And then also, the "non-fiction" videos, which are mainly educational and informative about boylove and minor attraction in general, have come mostly from YouTube.
BoyWiki: Is there anything people can do to help?
Zoomzoom4: Sure. Look at the "Wish List" we've got posted, which is a list of the titles we want, but don't have for whatever reason, and ask yourself, "Do I have any of those?"
If the answer is no, ask yourself if anyone you know might have any of those. Or even go further and try to find one or more of the titles online, even doing something as simple as tying a title into Yandex or Duck Duck Go and just seeing what comes up. Who knows? You may get lucky and a link to the free PDF of a long-sought after book appears. Stranger things have happened.
BoyWiki: Anything else you want people to know?
Zoomzoom4: Yes, the BL Library will be hosting a fair at the parking lot of the old Sears and Montgomery Ward that closed down. There will be food, games, prizes, face painting, and more family fun. Oh yeah, and the first 500 boys aged 8 to 12 who come totally and completely naked, their parents will have their rent/mortgage paid for by the city for two years, one year of free groceries at Tom Thumb, and automatically entered into a drawing to win a new 4 story house in Elmwood Estates.
See you there!
All in all, The Boylove Library is a wonderful addition to the online boylove community that may someday rival the BL Greek collection in the Great Library of Alexandra.
Boys 
by Staff Writer - March, 2024
