Adding this on the forum since this book is in the 2025/2026 Winter Readalong challenge in case anyone's looking for a free copy since the book is in the public domain.

Ebook

• Fable App - download and read within the app
• Project Gutenberg - EPUB and Kindle downloads available for phone or e-reader side loading
• Google's Play Books App - download and read within the all
• Standard Ebooks - website similar to Project Gutenberg with downloable files you can side load. They take files from places like Project Gutenberg and reformat them for optimized reading on electronic devices. (Thanks for the info sweet commenter 🤓 I'm so excited to have another free book source!)
• Apple Books (thanks to info sent in by a nice commenter! 🥰)

Audiobook

• LibriVox is a free app that uses volunteer readers to record public domain books. Currently there are 3 different versions with single narrator, multi-narrator, and full cast options
• Shout-out to another kind commenter who says that the audiobook is available if you have Spotify premium!

I listen to a lot of audiobooks, which means I don't know the pages in the book nor do I know the percent I am through a book. When updating my progress I have to look up how many chapters are in said audiobook, then divide the chapter I'm on by that number to then find the percent I'm through the novel and plug that into the % tab.

I know, it's not that bad, but it's unnecessarily tedious when I could just plug in the chapter I'm on and the total chapters (similar to the pages feature currently) and have PB auto-save the number of chapters so then I can just put the chapter I'm on and not have to worry about it.

Does this make sense? Does anyone who is a mainly audio listener feel similarly? I would post this in the feature request forum since there doesn't seem to be anything like it, but unfortunately I don't have that kind of money right now to buy PB royalty 💔

I was watching a friend pack (not a bookish person) and was thinking of how you would pack for a trip as a book lover. I'm struggling at what I would bring with me.

When you travel, what bookish items do you Travel with? I'm think probably my eReaders and my bookish totes for book shopping would be good. Can't be bringing 60 books with me.

What do you guys bring when you're traveling?

I'm hooked. I love a sentient food, ngl. The vibes of this book and the pragmatic yet funny way this is written reminds me a lot of the Tiffany Aching books (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett - and I really enjoyed those (it also features a sentient cheese). Completely different vibe compared to the only other Kingfisher book I've read, which is What Moves the Dead, but I'm here for some murder-mystery baking - and for Bob!