I am not a fan of deckled edges. I turn pages from the side and they cause problems for me. (I can't seem to get in the habit of turning the page from the top.) So... I chopped them off. I work in a printing & graphics department and we have this big industrial paper cutter that can cut a whole ream of paper in one slice. So I put in my paperback and chopped off the deckled edges. It came out wonderfully! Looks like it was published this way. It does have French flaps that I had to reposition, but a new fold took care of that quite well. I'm pleased as punch. 😊

I'm so invested in the mystery behind it all, that I actually hate that I have so much book left to read. And the fact that you can never be really sure of anything because Bel is so obviously an unreliable narrator because of her biases towards her family, is not helping at all, lol. I'm really liking this book so far!

I love reading audiobooks, because the books I read usually have words I don't know- trade jargon, scientific nomenclature, conlangs- and when I hear them, I'm able to confidently pronounce them. I feel like this helps me understand things better. But I PREFER reading paperbacks. I like to feel connected to the physical thing of it, the portal-opening, the ritual etc. And the audio processing problems. I can't always hear so good. I read faster than most narrators, so it also feels more efficient to "do it myself." So Every Author, if u could do me a quick favor, and write + record a "dramatis personae" of all ur character and location names, and if applicable also a little "dictionary" of introduced vocabulary terms, then I could enjoy my paperbacks and pronounce them too, and that would be SOOO COOL. Maybe you can attatch it to your book descriptions on PageBound someday. Thanks ily 💌

If you haven't pronounced a name or word wrong from only seeing it, or spelled one wrong from only hearing it, PageBesties, read more, idk what to tell u. But if you have and it was funny I wanna know what it waaaas 😁

(I had a really hard time googling a question I had about 🎧 Name of the Wind because I couldn't spell a fella's name, and idr who it was but the MC is called Kvothe. KVOTHE. Imagine how that might sound...and then imagine how many ways you could spell it wrong... and that's just the main guy...this is why ppl make fun of us fantasy writers lol)

Hellooooo! I’m looking for book recommendations that are stories that include neurodivergent characters. As a kid the Percy Jackson books helped me so much to see my neurodivergence in a different and much more positive light. (Ty Rick Riordan 🩷) So I was wondering if there’s other fiction out there that includes some cool characters with ADHD/Autism/other neurodivergence 🩷

okay so i have a one chapter rule- if i start a book i have to at least read the entirety of chapter one. that’s nothing crazy. (this only changes in very rare cases) however if i choose not to continue it after chapter one i wont mark it as DNF, i just quietly take it off my reading/TBR list and call it a day. i mentioned this to a friend and she said i should be logging them as DNF. my pov? i barely even started the book so why muck up my DNF as that’s reserved for books that really disappoint. so your thoughts on it? what are your DNF practices?