I've been reading this morning and I have thought of something weird to ask! This is lretty much about reading physical books because ebooks sort of.. save your place already

First, how many of you use bookmarks? How many use something else (dog-earing pages, memorizing the page number (i used to do this when i was reading one book at a time))?

For those of you that use bookmarks, do you take it out when you read and then put it back in to the new spot when you're done reading? Do you move the bookmark ahead to the spot you're aiming to read to? Do you move the bookmark with every page turn? (I've done all these 😂)

I just finished reading my first manga (Blue Period) and it was amazing! I’d love some recommendations for others to try.

Open to pretty much any genres - love slice of life, love horror and witchy, not as big on sci fi and I get triggered easy by bug/insect creepy crawlies.

Also really love when it’s about someone in a niche industry or having a very specific job and then getting into the complexities of that.

Anime I like if that helps - ERASED Komi Can’t Communicate My Dress Up Darling Overlord Spice and Wolf Dan Da Dan The Summer Hikaru Died The Ancient Magus Bride Food Wars Death-note

i’m like that lizard meme… every time i finish a book, i’m likely to rate it a five or four star read. i have high standards for quality of writing, but aside from that i can pretty much enjoy anything. my reasoning for high ratings is wanting to recommend it to other readers without having to write a whole review and them not having to read it. high average ratings? people are more likely to pick it up.

i also understand the motivations to be more discerning. but, we’re all just vividly hallucinating while flipping sheets of organic material around 🤷‍♀️

this is a place to share your rating system, if that’s something you can verbalize! (i couldn’t until very recently) i’m very interested in reading other people’s thoughts on this matter.

Is anyone else completely bothered by their books not being the same height?

Most of my paperbacks (with the exception of like 2 books) are all the same height, but my hardcovers are all over the place! There are some that are a taller height and some that are closer to the paperback size but just a bit taller. Even the ones in the same height group are all very slightly different!

And don't even get me started on graphic novels! I love my graphic novels so much but I only have two that are the same height and width!

Do you prefer your books to all be the same height or do you like the variety? And do you prefer shorter or taller books?

I'm curious about when y'all mark a book as reading. Do you do it the moment you decide to read it, when you start reading, or at a later point?

Lately, I've been restless and impatient and can sometimes start a book only to immediately get bored or don't get sucked in right away and am done with it (for the time being). I hate marking as DNF so soon and especially when I often intend to go back to it. I used to immediately mark as reading and then if I move on from it, just delete it from my shelf but more recently, I've waited until I've gotten to the point that I know I'm into the book or at least know that I won't hop to another instead before marking as reading. This most recent one, I just marked reading at about 15%.

Anyone else do this or just me?

Hello! Happy Sunday. 🌷

Recently, I realized that I visit Pagebound more than any other website! It's definitely surpassed Instagram, and I'm so glad for it.

How often do you visit PB? When you are here, what do you do? Do you scroll your entire feed or do you just check the latest posts? Do you browse the Pagebound Club? Do you just look for new books? Tell me!

Edit: typos.

Do any of you guys do this too?? Every time I finish a book, I wait a day or two before I start thinking about a new book to kind of pay respect to the author and the book in general. Even if it's a series or it is just really bad, I just wait some time before grabbing the next one. Is it just me or does anyone else actually do this??