Inspired by a few videos I’ve seen on BookTok.

I’ll go first with my pick: Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant.

This was soooo hyped everywhere I looked. Reddit, Tiktok, Instagram… The plot looked promising and I was told to expect building tension and full-blown horror! Instead I got bad prose, rushed plot, too many characters with boring backstories, and no horror. I’m still bitter tbh and although other reviews say Grant’s other works are better, I’m unsure whether to even try. I just wanted scary mermaids. 🥲

Hello everyone! Happy 1st of May! I have been discussing with a few book friends which type of book they prefer: Ebooks or physical books. Most of them say they prefer physical ones. I can't really decide. Ebooks are definitely cheaper and if I make a mistake while annotating I can just erase it, HOWEVER physical books are a different experience.

So do you prefer physical books? Or Ebooks? And why??

We have a very very exciting announcement: stats are live on the Pagebound app on iOS and Android! (web coming soon). Please make sure you're on the latest version of the app :)

This has been a long time coming as we've released smaller features to gather reading data: format tracking, page/minute totals, daily reading updates, and streaks. Now, you can see that data visualized on the Stats tab of your profile!

The top section shows your Monthly Stats, and the bottom section shows your Annual Stats. Next month, you will also see your Monthly & Yearly wrap-ups on this tab.

Royalty members have enhanced stats and extra graphs. If you're not Royalty and are curious to see the extra stats, head to a Royalty member's profile to check it out :)

This is just the beginning; we will be adding onto and improving stats, especially as we gather series and genre data. I am so thrilled to share this V1 with everyone now!

If you find your stats do not look correct, make sure all your data is filled in correctly:

• You can edit your daily pages read & minutes listened by clicking the streak widget on your home page to access Reading History.
• Edit format, total pages, and total minutes by clicking your Read Dates. On the last screen of the "edit read dates" flow, you can add/edit that info.

As a little bonus on the Reading History screen, you also see the pages read or minutes listened each day per book.

We hope you all enjoy this new facet of Pagebound! A big thank you to everyone for making this such a special community, and a special thank you to our Royalty members for making Pagebound possible with your support.

We'll be back tomorrow with some Readalong and Quest announcements!

Happy Reading, Jennifer + Lucy

I can’t believe we already made it to the end of April! This month was actually my worst reading month this year when you look at the numbers, but I can’t have a great reading month every time, so I accept defeat this time. I’m so ready to start over tomorrow.

I also made some progress in the spring readalong, and hopefully I can get the shiny butterfly badge in May!! I’m a sucker for stats, so I’m curious how this reading month went for all of you! I know the month isn’t completely over yet, and there’s still time to finish a book or two, but bear with me hehe

template for anyone who’d like to share some april stats:

books in total: favorite(s): least favorite: most surprising: longest read: shortest read: book(s) you’re looking forward to read in may:

I'll leave my own stats in the comments!!