Today I suddenly noticed that my avatar had a crown. I even made a post about it after reporting it — thinking it was a bug. I was very concerned that I was being charged money I didn't have and it felt unfair to those who had actually paid to support the community! But the people in PageBound pointed out that it may have been a gift and it was! They even helped me find the person — @JustABookNerd—who gifted me PageBound royalty after reading my comment on a founders announcement. @JustABookNerd gifted me 6 MONTHS of royalty. And I'm truly so grateful.

I'm one of the primary caretakers of my brother and my cat. I got my cat after a particularly rough time in London. He's my little bundle of joy and my whole heart. After coming to India, my saved up salary from previous job went to caring towards to my brother and adopting my cat. I started my new job last month and got my salary this month. However, two weeks ago, the vet said my little baby boy had cryptorchidism which meant that his risks of getting cancer were higher. He underwent neutering to prevent it and my salary paid off his medical bills. I also installed an AC in my room so he could heal comfortably and the tropical heat of Visakhapatnam would not impair his healing process. It's been about a week since he got neutered. And he's healing well!. Though he got a bit too excited when the vet said he could go cone free and licked his surgery site and now the cone is back on for another week.

From next month onward, I really wanted to get PageBound royalty to support this wonderful app and community.

And you can totally see why that want was so justified. This is such a beautiful community that deserves so much support! @JustABookNerd has done something so kind and wonderful because now I have something for myself and I can participate in this community to its fullest! I truly hope you can send some words of kindness and love to them. You can view their post about this here

Also shoutout to @bluejjongs and @ex.astris.scientia for helping me find @JustABookNerd. Could not have done this without you two. Hope you guys send some love to them too!

And @lucyPagebound @JenniferPageBound - please ignore my report!

And I really hope this helps you guys in donating Royalty if you want to and are able to!

Hey guys!

So I used to be royalty when I could pay for it but for the last few months, I haven't been able to (hopefully from next month I can), however, I suddenly have the royalty badge and the perks even though I haven't paid for them. It feels unfair to see an unearned crown on my avatar

Anyone else encountering the same issue? I've already reported it but it would be great if you could also check and report the bug!

Love you guys. Thanks.

Edit: To all the future readers; there's an update post and you can find it here! Please show @JustABookNerd, @ex.astris.scientia, and @bluejjongs lots of love!

Hi everyone, we've been quietly releasing new features and quality of life updates over the past month on all platforms, please make sure your app is updated to see the latest improvements!

One of the biggest updates is moderation improvement. We have new tools for both our moderators (who run the PageboundGuide account) and for the community:

• You can now report a post, review, or comment for spoilers
• You can send a post or comment to PBGuide for Content Guideline violations
• Of course, you can still flag a post, comment, review, or user profile for hate speech, harassment, self-promo, etc

PageboundGuides will review all reported content and either:

• add a spoiler tag to posts & reviews
• flag comments with spoilers
• approve flags for posts/reviews/comments/profiles that violate the Terms & Conditions (hate speech etc)
• archive Posts that do not meet the Posting & Content Guidelines

What is archiving? When a post does not meet the Content Guidelines (link here, quick version under Account & Settings -> Posting Guidelines in the app) PBGuide can archive the post from the book forum. The post is hidden from the default forum view but stays on your profile and book journey. You can include archived posts in your forum view by changing the forum filter from "All Posts" to "Include archived posts"

The PBGuides have been working hard behind the scenes to clean up very busy forums (especially the readalong forums). We know this has been a point of frustration for many, and giving everyone the ability to send these posts to PBGuide for review is just one of many ways we will be improving forum quality over the coming months.

Other New Features & Improvements

• Feed filters on your Main Feed and Following feed
• Message on your Yearly Challenge letting you know if you are ahead or behind on your goal
• Streaks! & editing past reading progress (click the streak widget to edit and view historical progress)
• Navigation changes on app: Profile is it's own tab where More menu used to be. The More menu is now on the top left next to the Pagebound logo
• Block & Report users from the profile page
• Reading progress bar added to the Book Page for currently reading books

Right now we are working on a huge, exciting project: Format tracking, stats, and monthly wrapups. Goal is to have this out in the next month!

You can always check the Roadmap to see what we're working on. If you want to support the continued development of Pagebound and add feature requests to the roadmap, please consider joining Pagebound Royalty (crown icon in the navbar)! Our Royalty members make it possible for us to provide a high quality, ad-free experience for all 🙏

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

Has anyone else been noticing lately that adult fantasy releases seem to be overwhelmingly white? If anyone has recs for fantasy books from authors of color aside from the handful of well-known ones, I'd super appreciate them!! I generally don't read YA, and I don't read romantasy unless it's queer ❤️

I'll provide a few recs as well for people who might be looking: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu Fate's Bane by C.L. Clark The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri The Tensorate Series by Neon Yang The Forever Desert Series by Moses Ose Utomi