Hey friends!

I haven't been reading as much lately, mainly because I'm nervous about a big scary stressful, but exciting thing coming up soon.

I was thinking, whenever I feel really overwhelmed, or stressed, I don't read. In fact, I want to but I seem to actively avoid it whenever I get a second, favouring TV and video games. I love reading so much, it's like I don't want to tarnish it with the feeling of stress or feel like I'm supposed to be disconnecting but can't quite get there.

I was wondering, what's your relationship between reading and stress? Do you have rituals? Does it help you? Do you avoid it?

Hi P.Bees!

OK, so a few days ago, I made a post asking what the PageBound Public thinks about Dark Romance. And I really enjoyed reading through different opinions and thoughts. So I decided to bring in a new discussion topic: about A.I. in books.

This spans from using AI in a creative process to using its exact words and paragraphs to write the book or to even use AI art as the cover. There are two discussions under this really, bc there is the discussion of how A.I in general is harming our society in many ways, and how A.I undermines the very creativity in writing (and other art forms). Some people think that A.I. has its incredible uses and even when not writing the book itself, can bring in a wealth of information or ideas at the writer's disposal. While some believe that A.I, like I explained earlier, not only negatively affects the general public, but undermines real human creativity, ideas, capabilities, and soul.

So! Feel free to discuss any part of this prompt, whether it's for or against A.I, or an in-between, and give reason why.

Does anyone ever just get this feeling to reread their favourite book every single day. Everytime I pass by my bookshelf I look at my "Once Upon a Borken heart" by Stephanie Garber and it just has this pulling on me. I've already reread it so many times. But I just have to reread it again. Which one is it for you?

So I was thinking about how some apps make us spend more time that we were planning on spending. Don't get me wrong, Pagebound is AWESOME (i am loving it here), it really encourages debates, book forums, recommendations and high quality content!!! So I really don't think Doomscrolling is a thing in this app. Still, I do think some people can end up their day feeling like "oh wow, I wanted to read more but i have ended up checking this site every hour instead of actually reading". Of course this is not the apps "fault", is just a pattern, a habit of that user. How do you feel about all of this? (And sorry for the typos hahaha).

By curiosity, when you have more books around (in your library or device, depending on what you use) - do you read one book until the end or you read multiple books all at once?

I usually prefer reading one at once and move to the other but I noticed there's people who read multiple books at the same time. I feel like I'm getting lost if I multitask like that 😂