I know there's been a lot of feelings going around over the past few days, so in the spirit of building community (and because I'm at home today!), I wanted to offer a thread just to chat and vibe because I love the community here and I want it to be a place where people can just feel free to be themselves. SO!

Send me a heart and you will get:

❤️ A compliment/shoutout/affirmation 🧡 A completely random question 💛 A completely random fact 💚 An encouragement or virtual hug (feel free to specific what you want encouragement for!) 💙 A book recommendation (let me know your preferred genre) 💜 A book-related discussion (will try and go off your currently reading or My Taste but if I don't know those books, may just be more of a general book-related topic)

EDIT: I am caught up for now and will come back to do new replies later, BUT if I missed you, please poke me again because it was absolutely not on purpose!! 💖

Ciao Bookaholics!

How has everyone been?

As we know, Pagebound has a feature to search and discover by emojis!! So my question this week is...

Describe your current book using only 3 emojis. 😎

I'll go first: 🎨🔥🤫

I don't mean anything detailed in the guide, but things that people who don't pick up on social cues or unspoken rules (like myself sometimes) might be missing. I've been here for over a year and there are a few things I've felt unsure about.

One is that I'm noticing people declaring when they yoinked a book from another person. I'm not sure if it's considered rude not to do this (if we're expected to give credit to where we found it), or if I can yoink without saying anything.

The next thing is that I tend to upvote whenever someone responds to me, including if I simply said "congratulations" and they said "you're welcome". This is something I carried over from Reddit, where it seems to be etiquette in many communities to give upvotes like that, but I've been wondering if I'm annoying people, if they think I'm cluttering their notifications with an unnecessary upvote. I'm not sure because other people sometimes upvote me like that, but sometimes they don't. I wonder if this is etiquette that hasn't solidified yet.

Recently I saw some people saying that reviews are not the place to express disagreement, and that it should only happen in forum discussions. I personally haven't commented anything like that on reviews, but that's one that surprised me and made me wonder if that's a generally agreed upon etiquette rule or not. If I remember correctly, the person in question was being rude in terms of their content and tone, but it made me wonder if people consider it rude to bring any discussion to a review, even if it were done as politely as possible.

Has anyone else noticed etiquette that wouldn't be found in the guide? Does anyone have etiquette questions that they're pondering? Are these unspoken rules still in the process of forming?

(Btw please mention other potential unspoken rules that I didn't mention here, if there are any. I'm curious about things that I haven't thought about)

Happy Wednesday, folks! It's time for the three Wednesday "W" questions:

1. What are you currently reading?
2. What have you recently finished reading?
3. What will you read next?

Looking forward to seeing folks' response, and make sure you check out other peoples' answers to see if you can spot any folks who share your taste!

How do other people interact with epigraphs? I always read them and think “hmm I wonder how that’s going to relate to the book” and then immediately forget about them.

Does anyone remember them or remember to look back? Do other people have the same issue as me? I’m trying to do a better job bc I know authors put a lot of thought into choosing them!

Mine is Plots, Sorcery, and Legends!

While doing some future book club activity ideas, we thought of an ice breaker for October, where everyone chooses their own PSL. Thought I would bring it over here!

Here are some starter ideas but feel free to make your own:

Pages, Plots, Princes, Princesses, Prophecies, Power, Passion, Pining, Poison, Politics, Palaces, Pegasi, Potions, Pumpkins, Parchment, Peril, Promises, Pleasure, Princes, Protectors, Pacts, Portals, Priestesses, Phantoms, Phoenixes, Pirates, Possession, Pursuit, Pride, Prestige, Pretenders, Princes, Peasants, Pastimes, Problems, Paranoia, Partnerships, Perseverance, Pettiness, Plotting, Proposals, Protectiveness, Powerplays, Possessiveness, Predicaments, Perfection, Prowess, Page-turners, Panties

Swords, Spells, Spice, Schemes, Seduction, Sorcery, Secrets, Shadows, Stars, Storms, Scandals, Souls, Spirits, Sirens, Shapeshifters, Stakes, Suffering, Sacrifice, Suspense, Strategy, Sovereigns, Suitors, Soulmates, Sparks, Slow-burns, Snark, Smoldering, Swoon, Swooning, Steam, Shenanigans, Stabbing, Survival, Skirmishes, Sieges, Secrets, Spellcraft, Swordplay, Scars, Seduction, Supernatural, Suspicion, Strife

L: Love, Longing, Lore, Lovers, Lust, Legends, Lies, Loyalty, Loss, Legacies, Lords, Ladies, Labyrinths, Light, Letters, Lineages, Loyalty, Liaisons, Longbows, Language, Liberation, Lunacy, Luxury, Lawlessness, Legends, Leverage, Leadership, Life, Laughter, Long-lost-loves, Love-interests, Love-triangles, Loathing, Lusting, Lurking, Loyalty, Lineage, Legends

what's yours?

Inspired by @Lixxie222's earlier post: What was the last book you bought, and why did you buy it?*

*(for example - a pretty cover, the plot sounded cool, it was recommended, you loved it and wanted your own copy, you were treating yourself, etc etc.)

The last book I bought was The Names by Florence Knapp because it was a 5 star book that I couldn't stop thinking about and I wanted my own copy. I was at a bookstore where I had store credit so I figured why not (and I was able to get a used copy too so it was a bit cheaper!)

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these! If you feel so inclined, feel free to answer the following:

5 books you’ve read and enjoyed recently 4 books on your TBR 3 auto-buy authors 2 all-time favourite books 1 currently reading

my responses will be in the comments 😌

[reposted due to messing up the hyperlink first time i posted]

hey everybody, i was glancing through past founder announcements recently and saw one that caused some worry in me, link here

i’ll copy here the specific section of the post that concerned me, so you don’t have to click through and read the full announcement if you don’t want to: “We will start a new program, community-voted Member of the Month (exact language TBD). Each month starting in the Fall, the entire PB community can nominate a user they believe embodies PB values. The user with the most nominations will be awarded a badge and the ability to create a Quest.”

i’d love to hear what other people here think about this feature. personally, i’m concerned that it could turn into a popularity contest/a value system based on who is the most active on PB and which usernames are recognized by the most people. i really hope that there will be something in place to prevent that sort of result, because a popularity contest doesn’t feel like the PB spirit i know. i just don’t believe that voting for a member-of-the-month will be the community-building exercise that it is intended to be.

EDIT: just been notified that apparently the site has very blatantly used ai before. i wasn't aware of this when posting so just take note! fuck ai ‼️

hey! has anyone done or heard of the read your colour test? my sister just told me about it and it's pretty accurate to both of us.

i'm an experimental orange reader! what about you guys?

🧡🧡🧡🧡

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