Hey guyssss! Honestly I have nothing really important to say but adding a post for the first time will give me points so here it goes...

Do you prefer to read physical copies or books or digital? Or does it not matter to you?

I prefer reading physically, but I'm not super strict about it :3

Okie thank you that's all!

Hello my dear Boundlings! ✨

For a few years now I've been using a bullet journal and notion to keep track of my mothly and yearly goals. I still find a lot of joy in the creative outlet my journal gives me and in organizing everything in Notion when I actually find time for it, but I've noticed that for the past six months or so I've been slacking on both, mostly because of work and other things going on in my life. Finding Pagebound made me drift away from them even more.

I do love Pagebound though and I really want to include it in my tracking more so I'm thinking of transfering everthing (lists, tbr, goals etc.) I have in Notion over. I haven't really been using my templates anyways and it gets really tedious to keep everything nice and tidy. I'm still kind of on the fence about it though.

So my question is basically: do you use other tools or methods to track your reading? If so, how time-consuming is it for you, and how do you make time for it? I'd be really thankful for recommendations, especially tools for personal notes with easy organizations of books 👀

Now that we’re a little way into the month, how is everyone going with their goals?

I have a truly unhinged goal of reading a book a day for the entire month and I’m actually on track with that so far.

If you as a reader (today) exist at the venn diagram of three quests, what are they?

After a ton of deliberation and back-and-forth, I would say:

• lit fit starter pack (although I'm such an insufferable snob I wouldn't even classify some of those books as literary)
• LGBTQ+ SFF
• dark academia.

This is partly inspired by my former life as an intense Swiftie, where everyone would have their "holy trinity" of albums (for those curious mine will always be rep, speak now, and folklore).

Every time I post on here I'm procrastinating my PhD, btw.

So I hear about mood readers, I hear about people with a stacked list, but I want to know who or what chooses your next read OTHER than you. I have my tbr and I’m not picky about the order as long as I feel like I’m not doing the same setting/time period really close together. I never want to actually choose my next read because I’m too indecisive; instead, I let external forces choose. Whether it’s a sale on thrift books or my local secondhand bookshop/cafe happens to have it, that’s what dictates my next read. Maybe you could say I let the universe decide, or maybe it’s more accurate to say I’m just cheap and love to hoard books. So add it in the comments, what’s your external decision maker for your next read?

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)

Do you keep yours the same or do you change it based on your mood/current genre kick/ just cause you feel like it?

I like so many of the avatars, though we need more audiobook ones IMHO; so I tend to mix it up.

Since it's still been so hot lately, I figured I ask another question! This time it's about lemonade! What color is your book? What flavor would the lemonade be based on the cover!

Book 1: Pink! This could be either strawberry lemonade or dragonfruit lemonade! Dragonfruit lemonade is delicious, I had it recently!

Book 2: This book is gray, but I've never really seen a gray lemonade...hmmm so I'll make up a flavor! Coconut lemonade or piña colada.

Anyways what guys flavor lemonade would your book be? You can also leave the titles if you like I'm currently reading Hooked by Asako Yuzuki & Try Not to Breathe by Holly Seddon