The new app version is live on Android and iOS, please update your apps to see the Mute + Owned book options that went live on web this week! Reminder: you can mute books or mark them as "owned" in the book status modal, and you can manage your muted books under Account & Settings.

This update also includes some new features (all platforms):

• We have a new book status: Interested ! So many readers lament their huge TBRs and hesitate to add to that growing list. The Interested status is your answer; you can log a book you'd like to remember, or that piques your interest, without committing it to your TBR. When you mark a book as "Interested", it will create an activity item in your feed, but you will not see posts about it in your Main or My Books feeds. Anecdotally, I've been using a custom "interested" shelf for a while, and am excited to convert these to the Interested status (and also add books guilt-free to my library, like a Pagebound digital book haul 😏)
• on the top of the Discuss page, you'll see a scrollable list of books the people you follow are reading, along with their progress. You can click these books to go right to their progress update, see if they wrote a note, or write them a note! Think of this like a status update where you can chat more personally and keep tabs on a daily basis. This list is ordered by who most recently updated their progress.
• We linked the Merch Store in the footer on web, and in the More tab in the app
• Android users in the US can sign up for Pagebound Royalty right in the app! We would be so grateful if you considered supporting us through Royalty.

We also made some changes to points, outlined below with an explanation:

• You will no longer receive points for posts or comments in the Pagebound Club (this applies ONLY to Pagebound Club, NOT to book forums. You will continue to receive points for book forum posts and comments). While we love seeing the friendships and community built in the club, we've also seen some not so genuine behavior. This change is intended to encourage more respectful, authentic engagement and to stop rewarding less authentic posting/commenting.
• You will now receive 3 points for every day that you log reading progress, and you will receive 5 points instead of 1 point for finishing a book. We want folks to be rewarded for reading, and give lurkers a way to level up :) We hope this also encourages ppl to comment their personal updates on their reading progress activity items, rather than in the book forums, since you receive points for logging progress! (note: you receive 3 points for logging progress per day, not per book per day)

We'll be back soon with more updates!

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy 💙💜

Hi everyone! We have submitted the app for app store approvals, so it should be publicly available very soon 🤞 In line with that, we have some very exciting design updates to share.

A new logo You’ve likely noticed the new logo and Pagebound icon, now visible on web. Since our app and website design are sisters, not twins, we redesigned the logo to tie both together. We won’t be changing the web design to match the app, so you can choose the experience and aesthetic that you prefer. We think each design suits its interface well, while retaining the whimsy and magic that is the spirit of Pagebound.

We also wanted more flexible and beautiful iconography that could work across app, web, socials (and that would look really cute on merch! 👀), and we’ve definitely achieved that with our new PB icon. We worked with illustrator Mariam Chagelishvili to create it and are thrilled to share that you’ll see more of her work soon…

Updated avatars (with new ones to come) We are excited to announce that we will be rolling out additional avatars for you to choose from—these “avatar packs” will be unlocked with each level you achieve on Pagebound. Check out the 2 new avatar options with Level 2 👀🎉

We’ve always known that as we grew, we’d need more options—lest every single comment come from the ghost 🙃. With Pagebound’s rapid growth, we’ve outpaced my ability to keep up with drawing new avatars. I’m happy to share that Mariam has taken over avatar creation and deserves all the praise for the future avatar packs releasing soon as well as the revamp you may have noticed to your current avatar. Through the lens of her own style, we asked her to preserve the essence of our OGs while creating a design system flexible enough to fit new concepts (ps I cannot wait until we release our cute vegetable pack 🥕)

We hope you love these visual changes that are a marker of how far we’ve come and how much we’ve grown!

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