Let's spread some love for this app, while also giving nice "tips" or reasons to stay here to the new users. I go first:

🔸The lack of influencers. Right now this is the perfect intersection between personal and social. No ego or popularity battles, just a village full of villagers.

Hii. I have adhd & a lil spending problem, so I have accumulated A LOT of books on my tbr. 🫠 (Currently I don't buy many books anymore, that's one good thing. 😂) Soo I just wanted to ask if you guys may want to share some advise on how to focus on reading this massive tbr, but still having fun doing it. (I get easily distracted by my local library, new popular books and audio books and tend to read more of these. 😬) Any advise/challenge/motivation is welcome. 🤗

When I go to look at the new lists, there's almost more with negative votes than positive ones 💀. I think this tendence can be intimidating for new users.

Details, actions or mindsets that makes you think: nah, what the hell.

I go first: calling no-spice fantasy "Clean Fantasy"

At this time of year, the pressure starts to emerge for not meeting the annual reading challenge 🫠, so i decided to start a micro rebellion with the "slowinter reading challenge". The only rule is to actually enjoy the book, to savor it and enjoy that reading moment. No points, no deadline. Just the coziest of the winters, covered under a warm blanket with your paper treasures 📖📚. Have fun!

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)

I really find myself finding so much more joy and richness in my life now that I have included literature more in my life. It’s become part of my routine to just sit and relax with a book and get lost in the thoughts of others. I really want to continue to expand my world and become lost in others’ visions and stories. Storytelling is such a core part of what it means to be human and I feel closer to my own humanity when I am audience to a good book.