With all the new people joining because the app is up and running (Yay!!!) I wanted to put a question out there:

When reading a series do you prefer to space out your readings (either with just a few days or an extended period of time) or are you a binge reader for series?

Personally, in the past I’ve been a binge reader! I love sitting down with a series and flying though the books. Still am to some extent, but since joining Pagebound I’ve been trying to read more variety so I haven’t been doing whole series at a time. It’s definitely a different experience, and I’m still trying to decide which one I prefer so I’m curious what everyone else thinks!

I am over the moon to share that the app is officially live on both iOS and Android!!

We've quite literally poured our blood, sweat and (lots of) tears into the app development over the past 9 months and we could not be more thrilled for everyone to experience it!

We're still being indexed in app store search so you may have to scroll to find us, or type in Pagebound: Social Book Tracker. Here's links to iOS and Android: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pagebound-social-book-tracker/id6751526412 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.pagebound.app

There are quite a few improvements and new features in the app, including:

• Book Journeys (click the map icon on the book cards in your library and other user's library to see their posts, comments, and updates for a specific book)
• Quick access to "add to plan"
• Filtering your activity on profile
• Save posts
• upgraded Read Dates editing

This is the first release, so there will be many more additions and improvements to come. (PS for Android users: we're aware of two bugs related to library imports from Goodreads/Storygraph, and issues with editing read dates - these have already been resolved and are pending Google approval for release.)

We owe a huge thank you to our beta testers who worked diligently over the last month to report hundreds of bugs and help us get the app prepared for release. A huge round of applause to them.

We hope you love the app as much as we do; it definitely makes engaging on PB so much more convenient and fun. If you have a great experience with the app, we'd love if you'd consider supporting us through Pagebound Royalty; Lucy and I have worked for $0 over the past year to bring the app and website to fruition, and have been covering business costs with our savings accounts. Your contribution means we can continue to work full-time on Pagebound without influence from investors or advertisers, and keep Pagebound 100% for readers by readers. Thank you so much to all the Royalty who have already contributed; it truly means the world to us and keeps Pagebound online!

ok now go download the app and tell us what you think!

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

PS - leaving us a review in app stores also helps tremendously :)

I want to beef up my fall reading list and am curious what stories everyone is visiting in autumn 🤎 Looking for spooky / fall cottage / witchy vibes 💫🍂 Mine is A Far Wilder Magic, I read it every year! 🥰

one of my favorite things to do when i’m bored is scour the internet for some good fanart of my fav books. sometimes i’ve even had some amazing fanart pop up in my feed that drew me to a book and made me want to read it!

i would love to appreciate more artists who add so much to the book community, so who are some of y’all’s favorite fanartists? (one of mine is lotusbubble on instagram, who has beautiful art for a bunch of popular fantasies/romantasies!)

I just wanted to ask, how do y'all end up with 100+ physical books? 😭 I can understand if you're an adult, your money is your money, you earned it, you can do what you want with it, but why would you get more books if there are ones yet to be read at home?

I've seen one girl my age (I can't say it exactly, for privacy reason, but between 13-17) online have 300 BOOKS for her physical TBR, which was insane to me, because how did her parents not complain or stop her once? Is it just me because my dad would never get me more books unless the ones I have are finished? Or is this overconsumption?

I get buying a book or two you've been really wanting and/or haven't been available or something, while you still have books at home. BUT WHYY would you buy 10+ books at once when you have 100+ unread books anyway 😭

Okay folks, now that the app has launched on Android, and that app finally pops up in the Canadian Play Store if you write "Pagebound social book tracker" (sometimes "... trackers" because it is being extra finicky), my best friend has finally agreed to join!

Her username is Taryannasauras, and as you'll know from her bio, she likes fantasy, "Just fantasy. Ideally no, or little romance..."

She and I have been having a discussion about romantasy for ages that basically boils down to we are happy for folks who like it, but it just isn't what we are looking for.

So, I beg of you: recommend your favourite fantasy books that don't cross over into romantasy. If there is a romance side plot - that is fine! but should not be the main focus.

Bonus points if the lead is a woman/non-binary , and/or if it is queer, but neither are hard asks.

(Special note: neither of us are prudes; we are both incredibly sex positive! We are very happy for the folks who love reading sex scenes. We can even read them. But we value plot way above sexual content. Bestie most ends up skipping those parts to get back to the plot, which is why I wanna find stuff she can read all the way through.)

I kinda wish we had polls because I'm curious about the ratio of plot-driven people vs character-driven people. I guess my question is: how do you feel about unlikable protagonists? Not necessarily MCs written to be unlikable (because that might be a seperate question), but also MCs that you specifically dislike.

Do you drop a book if you can't stand the MC, even if the plot is good? Do you keep going but it kinda ruins the enjoyment for you and your rating will reflect that? Or do you think that as long as the plot is strong and the characters are serving it, your personal feelings towards them doesn't matter?

Does anyone have a fun way of picking a new book to read? A TBR wheel? A TBR jar?

I've tried the jar but kept forgetting to update it as I was reading/buying new books. I'd love to try the wheel because, uh, dopamin, but it would take so long to set up!

When I was a kid, I loved collecting the little notes that used to come with the alpino chocolates! Recently, I've been collecting knives! Because of Inej. I have a karambit and a balisong (don't worry, I looked into the legality of it in my country and I'm allowed to have those knives).

My karambit is pure black and I've named her Inej because she looks so cool and badass.

My balisong is rainbow coloured and extremely flashy when I'm doing tricks with it, so needless to say that I've named it Nikolai hahahahaha

What have you been collecting recently?

In case anyone's wondering; Inej and Nikolai are grishaverse characters! I highly recommend you read the books. They're awesome

I think this really only affects those who are avid manga/manhwa/webtoon readers, but it makes me so bummed when a series I’ve read isn’t on Goodreads (and therefore can’t be added to Pagebound). I just finished one of my faves, For Better or For Worse, and while it used to be on GR, for some reason it’s been pulled?? GR’s method of adding new books is so slow and I don’t think any of the books I’ve requested be added have been even years later. No offense to those who are manually adding them, it just blows my mind that the platform hasn’t moved to some kind of automated system yet. Sure, I do track all of my graphic/visual reading in an a very structured and colored coded Google Sheet, and I do include the dates I’ve read them if they aren’t on GR, but I hate not being able to have them count towards my total here (or on GR) 😭 Does anyone else feel this pain or am I the only one??

Hello! So what are your favourite book quotes? Here are mine:

• "Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination." - the way of kings
• "If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway. All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway."
• "Anxiety can act as internal gravity, shrinking the soul."
• "You never stop being scared of falling from the top, because when you close your eyes you can still feel the pain from each and every step of the way up." Those three from beartown Excited to hear yours❗❗

My best friend just got new business cards so I am using one as a sentimental bookmark right now. I travel a lot so I'll normally use a plane ticket, or the receipt for the book if I just buy one.

I do own one real bookmark with a tassel and everything, but I've never used it because I'm so worried about losing it!

Not sure if there are any crafty friends here, but if so I’d love to hear of any cute book crafts you’ve done! I’d really like to make a book character Guess Who game 😂 I think my fave “craft” was making my own mini books to fit in this tiny little library my sister got me (the ones you shake to knock the books off the shelves). The books were SO small (less than an inch!), but it was so fun to make the cover spreads in Canva, cut and fold them, and then make the foam cores to go inside. I love using tweezers to put them back on the shelves (in series order, of course), and it’s nice to have “copies” of books or series I don’t own, like manga or webtoons I’ve read

When I was a kid, I loved collecting the little notes that used to come with the alpino chocolates! Recently, I've been collecting knives! Because of Inej. I have a karambit and a balisong (don't worry, I looked into the legality of it in my country and I'm allowed to have those knives).

My karambit is pure black and I've named her Inej because she looks so cool and badass.

My balisong is rainbow coloured and extremely flashy when I'm doing tricks with it, so needless to say that I've named it Nikolai hahahahaha

What have you been collecting recently?

In case anyone's wondering; Inej and Nikolai are grishaverse characters! I highly recommend you read the books. They're awesome

Not sure if there are any crafty friends here, but if so I’d love to hear of any cute book crafts you’ve done! I’d really like to make a book character Guess Who game 😂 I think my fave “craft” was making my own mini books to fit in this tiny little library my sister got me (the ones you shake to knock the books off the shelves). The books were SO small (less than an inch!), but it was so fun to make the cover spreads in Canva, cut and fold them, and then make the foam cores to go inside. I love using tweezers to put them back on the shelves (in series order, of course), and it’s nice to have “copies” of books or series I don’t own, like manga or webtoons I’ve read

Healthy debate! 1, 2, 3, go!

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.