Massive quality of life update coming your way!! We're dipping our toes into the stats waters with this one.. you can now update and track your progress on your current reads!

Click the progress bar below your current read on your home page to update progress. You can edit your progress for the day until midnight, and a status update with your reading progress will be added to your feed and shared to your followers :) This status update is the perfect place to add a comment for more personal updates that will be shared only to your followers.

Some notes on the nitty gritty:

• An app update is required to see this on iOS/Android!! Please update your app version (especially if you're seeing a weird "unhandled resource_type" message in your feed)
• only 1 update will be added to your feed per day per book when tracking progress (if you’re reading multiple books, one update for each book can be added to your feed). If you update your progress later in the day, the existing feed activity will be updated with the new progress.
• We are now passing your local time to our servers, which means you can edit that day’s progress until midnight local time for you and your start/finish read dates will reflect your local time rather than server time

We're working on home feed controls and updates to the Pagebound Club and Discuss tab next!

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy 💜💙

The descriptions of the world and how the academy works are amazing 🥹 I am so happy I'm reading this!! LinYu is really a fantastic and tremendous writer, I can feel how much work and study she put into creating this absolute masterpiece🔥

Oh boy this book is slow... I'm finding myself skipping some narrative parts, and even some dialogues, but I try to force myself to go back and read everything. I just find this book maybe very ya, not for actual adults who are used to reading a variety of books. The author describes dresses and furniture in detail even when not necessary (I don't if I'm able to explain what I mean, but I'll try: usually, a description is useful and has a purpose in the context of the book, but just describing what kind of bed there is in a room just for the sake of the bed, is a bit strange and slows the reading down: why am I given this detail? Will it be important in the story later? Usually, no, they are not), and it's a bit frustrating and annoying, it gives me the vibe of a teenager who writes something and wants the reader to imagine things the exact way they are, but the thing about books is exactly this: the details of the scenes (the one without a purpose for the story) are up to the reader to imagine and use their imagination on. If you take away that step, it's more like reading a script. Also, there are a lot of repetitions. Like, a lot. You as the reader are given an information, and then that same info is repeated a lot of times throughout the next couple of pages as if you weren't able to remember shit.

I don't know, this far it seems to me that the writer thinks of the reader as a very forgetful child with no imagination. Hope it will get better

The descriptions of the world and how the academy works are amazing 🥹 I am so happy I'm reading this!! LinYu is really a fantastic and tremendous writer, I can feel how much work and study she put into creating this absolute masterpiece🔥

This app seems so cool ! looks like a real social media for book lovers I love it already

I am EATING this up. I love that it is clearly still Manacled but at the same time, it feels like a completely new story 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Hi friends! Today I wanted to ask yalls opinion on buying book binding version of ff: do you think it's "bad"? I watched a reel today about someone who said that if you really want to have a paperback copy of something, you can do it yourself instead of buying it from people who will gained profit from it (they talked about it being plagiarism, but I'm not sure, I mean, if you buy a paperback version the author's name will not change? I don't know). Her page was all about teaching people the book binding craft. I had some thoughts:

• you have to have actual time to learn a whole new craft from scratch
• you need some money to buy all the material for book binding
• you need mental space and energy in order to learn a new skill
• you need to be able-bodied to do it
• you need the physical space in your house to set up your project
• you need money for all the trials and errors you will inevitably do (and so buy a lot of material)
• also, maybe out of contest, but really? Do we have to hate on people who, whatever the gain is, will never become millioners over book binding versions of ff? People who maybe actually enjoy the craft of book binding and - seeing how everything is pretty expensive nowadays - wants to gain a bit from it to level a bit all the spending they did for the materials, and also maybe likes to share their craft? Also!! If one has to buy themselves all the materials in order to learn the craft, I think we can all agree that the majority would buy things on Amazon: so, is it better to give money to a billionaire or someone put there who just enjoy the craft? So, I found this discourse a bit abelist and privileged, but I'm still forming a whole opinion on this. What do yall think?

JUST TO BE CLEAR: my hard cover versions of the ff i love are made as a gift from a friend of mine who enjoys the book binding craft, but watching the reel i thought: what would I have done without my friend?

It can be reading, it can be anything else; I just thought it would be nice to share a little positivity. I can already feel the seasonal depression creeping in, and uni starts again in two weeks, so my mood isn’t exactly at its best!

What’s a small thing - big or tiny, reading-related or not - that always brings a bit of happiness into your day?