Hey there!

I am looking for fiction book recommendations that have chronically ill/disabled main characters. I myself have multiple chronic illnesses and am disabled and would love stories where the main characters overcome their circumstances despite their limitations. My favorite genres are fantasy, sci-fi and anything with a found family trope. Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone, we have some community updates to share. Pagebound has grown significantly since the app launched in October, and to support this larger group we're revamping our Quest creation and community recognition programs.

We have decided to sunset the Top Contributor program. We started the program in the early days of Pagebound to recognize active community members and help build the culture. TC's created Quests, welcomed new users, answered questions, and helped us behind the scenes with beta testing, user interviews, and feedback. We are so grateful to the 80+ TC's who were crucial in helping shape the platform & culture as we built the v1 of so many features.

To make Quest creation and community recognition more democratic and community-oriented, we will have two paths for Quest creation:

• We will continue the community-voted List initiative, where each quarter Royalty members nominate Lists to be turned into Quests, and the entire PB community votes on the nominated lists. We will have 3 winners per quarter for a total of 12 list-to-quests a year.
• We will start a new program, community-voted Member of the Month (exact language TBD). Each month starting in the Fall, the entire PB community can nominate a user they believe embodies PB values. The user with the most nominations will be awarded a badge and the ability to create a Quest.

We will have more details on this new program when voting nears :)

Editing to add: Former members of the Top Contributor program who had Quests in-progress will be able to release those Quests. We have not put a time limit on this since curating a Quest takes a ton of work, and many hours have already been invested in these Quests. You'll continue to see some final Quests created by former TCs be released over the next months.

App + Product Updates The Discover People section got an upgrade: at the top, you'll see a Featured My Taste book that rotates daily, similar to the Featured Emoji. We highlight active users with that book in their My Taste section

We also fixed some small edge-case bugs related to progress updates + tracking. Reminder: you need to track your progress to see daily pages/minutes updated in your stats! So if you start & finish a book in the same day, you'll need to track progress still to see that graph updated (this is because there are some folks who don't track daily, and if we auto-tracked, stats would look very incorrect).

Thank you everyone for keeping this community thriving, PB wouldn't be what it is today without everyone's support & engagement. We can't wait to recognize new community members with these new initiatives, and are so excited to see what Quests y'all cook up. And of course, a special thank you to our Top Contributors who invested so much of their free time, love, and energy into this community. A round of applause for the (retired) TCs 👏👏👏

Happy Reading, Jennifer + Lucy 💜💙

When I first joined Pagebound, I kept my shelves to a minimum. Initially, I was just using them to sort only mysteries from other countries. Then someone asked me about Space Operas, so I thought, "All right, I will make a Space Opera shelf." Then I thought, "I really need a shelf for my unread non-fiction."

As time went on, I started getting an itch to create more shelves. When I was on the platform that shall not be named, my shelves were numerous and specific. When I came to Pagebound, I thought I would just chill and go the easy route. I am apparently not a chill person.

Last week, I said screw it and started adding shelves wholesale. Historical fiction, fantasy, epic fantasy, etc, etc. I am now starting to regret this and wish I had stayed the course, because when I added the shelves, my plan was only to add new books as I read them. As we have established, I am not chill, and my brain does not work that way.

So now I am slowly going through a few books every day, adding them to the appropriate shelves, and, of course, creating new shelves when there isn't one. I have a lot of books to shelve. It is going to take forever.

My brain is not my friend. Always getting me into stuff I probably should have avoided. How about you? Is there any Pagebound project or book project you kind of regret starting after you realized how much work it was going to take?

Hey guys! So i see a lot of people that have theorys about books and think a lot about it and make connections and stuff and i just wanted to see if there were other people who just let the story unfold by itself without really thinking about it that much or like creating theory in their heads. Like idk im kind of an overthinker in real life so i think that when i read its like the moment when my mind switches off and just stops thinking. But yeah i just wanted to look for my people😊😊