Hello everyone! I'm new to pagebound, so here I am creating my first post! What better way of doing it by getting to know you!

What matters more to you: beautiful writing, a great plot, or unforgettable characters?

I don't mean anything detailed in the guide, but things that people who don't pick up on social cues or unspoken rules (like myself sometimes) might be missing. I've been here for over a year and there are a few things I've felt unsure about.

One is that I'm noticing people declaring when they yoinked a book from another person. I'm not sure if it's considered rude not to do this (if we're expected to give credit to where we found it), or if I can yoink without saying anything.

The next thing is that I tend to upvote whenever someone responds to me, including if I simply said "congratulations" and they said "you're welcome". This is something I carried over from Reddit, where it seems to be etiquette in many communities to give upvotes like that, but I've been wondering if I'm annoying people, if they think I'm cluttering their notifications with an unnecessary upvote. I'm not sure because other people sometimes upvote me like that, but sometimes they don't. I wonder if this is etiquette that hasn't solidified yet.

Recently I saw some people saying that reviews are not the place to express disagreement, and that it should only happen in forum discussions. I personally haven't commented anything like that on reviews, but that's one that surprised me and made me wonder if that's a generally agreed upon etiquette rule or not. If I remember correctly, the person in question was being rude in terms of their content and tone, but it made me wonder if people consider it rude to bring any discussion to a review, even if it were done as politely as possible.

Has anyone else noticed etiquette that wouldn't be found in the guide? Does anyone have etiquette questions that they're pondering? Are these unspoken rules still in the process of forming?

(Btw please mention other potential unspoken rules that I didn't mention here, if there are any. I'm curious about things that I haven't thought about)

Sooo the name. Necromantica might be the worst name I've ever seen for a book, even worse than Mexican Gothic (even if it is funny to me, because I know the name was chosen by the publishers because Silvia Moreno Garcia is awful at them 😂). I'm still anxiously waiting for it, I loved the first and the synopsis for the second book is so interesting but with a name like that I don't care if I'll love it as much as the first, I don't want a physical copy of it 😂

Was reading the page of my CR where it warns about copyright and it says something about not being authorized to use the book for AI training. It's my first time seeing it, have you seen it before in more recent books?? 🧐 Also using books to train AI is crazy, leave the books alone please. 😔

Amazon officially bought the rights to "The Folk of the Air" to turn it into a series

Does anyone else feel trapped in a new release to series reread cycle? Especially with ARCs where there's a bit of a time crunch? If I read a series ages ago and a new book drops, I do want to reread the other books before jumping in to give it a fair comparison to the other books in a series.

And as a mood reader it just gets risky that I won't even get to the sequel after the reread! For instance: The Strength of the Few was coming out so I reread The Will of the Many (and loved it even more a second time) andddd then I soft DNFed the sequel less than 10% in because I was no longer in the right headspace/it wasn't exactly what I was expecting. I'll hopefully still get to it when I'm ready, but I didn't get my ARC review in 😭!

Now I just was very graciously given the audio ARC for Victorious by V. E. Schwab and... I'm realizing I haven't read the first two books in 4.5 years. But I'm nervous to reread for two reasons-- what if I reread and lose the mood for Victorious anyway? And to a lesser extent-- it's 4.5 years not 5 so that's two books that I'd be reading that couldn't count towards the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0. I'm really working towards that one because it's my first year since a major reading slump led to me abandoning 1.0, and I'm not as fast a reader as I used to be.

I know these are such non-issues but does anyone have advice? Should I just get over it and reread or is there another way to get a refresher for what happened in the first two books so I can give the ARC a fair shake? (I know that part of the solution is STOP REQUESTING ARCS IN SERIES but what can I say it's apparently a habit)

Hi! I know is still summer but I have a question! Which spooky/halloween/scary books you will read at October? Except books from readalong! 👻

I am doing little clean up of my books (unemployment is not fun at all) and I have two books that I wanted to read so much just few years back, but never got to read them and my excitement fall down to minimum, so I was wondering what yours thoughts on them are, cause I'm not sure if I want to read them or just sell and pass on. So the first one is I kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston and the second one is The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. Pan. I heard a lot of good words on them when they were popular, but I'm not sure anymore, so your words might help me make a decision! Also I went past few books that have dedications that are really personal from people that are no longer in my life and I never know what to do with them. Keeping them kind of feel wrong, but giving them up to someone with something written so personally also feels kind of not right. So yeah, I don't know, but thank you all in advance!