I love Scarlett and Julian more than DnD. I don't know what exactly it is that makes me like them more, but I do.

Who was your first book boyfriend and where did you find him? Did you find him in the depths of KU or did you find him on the covers of a penguins publishing co book?or If you're like me, you found him on wattapad. My first book bf was Blake Eaton from the book "i sold myself to the devil for the vinyls, pitiful i know". He was everything and more I could ask for, still one of my top book bfs of all time🥺🫶 So, who was yours?

Hi everyone, a quick announcement about Seasonal + Special Event Readalongs:

For those of you that have been around since the summer, you may have participated in our first Special Event Readalong for Pride. This was a huge hit and fostered PB-wide discussion on queer characters and stories (and bonus: the badge was rad). To continue fostering discussions on more niche and diverse books & voices, we'll be hosting a Special Event readalong once a season.

Our second Special Event will run from October 15 - November 15 and will be (drumroll please...) Dia de los Muertos 2025! Head to the Discuss tab and click on the box above the feeds to check out the selections and see the new badge (and if you're new, click the purple info icon next to the Fall Readalong header on Discuss to learn more about readalongs on Pagebound).

Since we're committing to one Special Event a season, we don't want to overwhelm folks with too many Readalong books. While you only need to read 1 book in a Special Event to earn the badge (and there is no "completionist" sparkly badge), we will limit Special Event picks to 3 books. Starting with the Winter 2025 Readalong, Seasonal Readalongs will only include 4 books. This way, you still only have to read a max total of 5 books per season to earn all Readalong badges available.

As for product updates, looks like most of you have already noticed some of the bigger changes on the site but for those that missed it, the following has been updated over the past 2 weeks:

• Discover Books got a little makeover: every day, we feature a new emoji and show you books whose ratings most frequently feature that emoji. Some of the emojis in rotation will be seasonally themed :) we also show you books that were the most discussed/finished/TBR'd yesterday, so the featured books will change daily and will showcase less mega popular titles.
• the Similar Users list got an update. Before, we were showing any user with over 30 points in that list; now, we prioritize active accounts, so you can find people you're more likely to actually engage with. I'll be making further tweaks to this in the coming weeks.
• No more HTML tags in posts/comments, please use markdown instead! See the Pagebound Club post on this for more info.
• We will save your total page count and pre-populate it when you post using Pages to calculate progress.

We're still beta testing the app but are on track for and end of month release!

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

Whats a series you think would have been better had it been condensed OR what is a series you wish had been drawn out longer? I personally think the From Blood and Ash series DRAGGED, the pacing was awful. I had to drop it around book 3 because we were getting nowhere 🙃 Meanwhile I wish we had more books following Sorcery of Thorns. I miss Elisabeth, Nathaniel, and Silas 😭

Whats a series you think would have been better had it been condensed OR what is a series you wish had been drawn out longer? I personally think the From Blood and Ash series DRAGGED, the pacing was awful. I had to drop it around book 3 because we were getting nowhere 🙃 Meanwhile I wish we had more books following Sorcery of Thorns. I miss Elisabeth, Nathaniel, and Silas 😭

We have 50 spots for iOS and 50 spots for Android available. If you’re interested, we ask that you 1. follow us on one of our social platforms (we have Instagram, TikTok, Threads, Bluesky, and X -- just search Pagebound) 2. comment your Pagebound username + include if your device is iOS or Android in the video/message I just posted (on 9/9) and 3. pinky promise that when the app is released publicly (in the future), you’ll write a review!

We’ll randomly select 50 iOS and 50 Android users from the comments across socials, and if you get a spot, you’ll receive an email by the end of the week (to the email associated with your Pagebound account).