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. 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 💙💜

Genuine question: Is it just me or is anyone else seeing less engagement since the update? I used to log in at any time during the day, and my notification bell would always have a number on it and conversations were happening, but ever since the update, I'm not seeing that anymore.

Personally—and I imagine I'm in the minority—I had no problems with how the home feed used to be. People are generally pretty good at hiding spoilers of books I have on my TBR. And if they shared a quote without marking it as a spoiler, chances are it was an out-of-context quote that wouldn't give me anything of the story; on the contrary, it would motivate me to want to move it up my TBR and get to it quicker.

And if it's an ARC, same thing with sharing out-of-context quotes that wouldn't give a spoiler or even the same quotes the author would share in their social media.

But now with the update, I'm not really seeing much. To be honest, it has now prompted me to not add any book to my TBR shelf and even remove books from my TBR shelf just so I can see those posts. Again, I'm probably in the minority, and I know the founders mentioned there would be an update in the future where you can choose what you see on your home feed, which I'll be first in line to switch it to how it was so I can interact with people more and add books to my TBR without the chances of the book getting hidden.

Hi all! We are doing a little readalong for the months of November and December to make progress in this quest! The selected book is Kiss Her Once for Me, by Alison Cochrun so be sure to get your copy and jump in to the book's forum for discussion.

Comment below if you'll be tackling another book from this Quest, as some users have already read KHOfM 😁

Genuine question: Is it just me or is anyone else seeing less engagement since the update? I used to log in at any time during the day, and my notification bell would always have a number on it and conversations were happening, but ever since the update, I'm not seeing that anymore.

Personally—and I imagine I'm in the minority—I had no problems with how the home feed used to be. People are generally pretty good at hiding spoilers of books I have on my TBR. And if they shared a quote without marking it as a spoiler, chances are it was an out-of-context quote that wouldn't give me anything of the story; on the contrary, it would motivate me to want to move it up my TBR and get to it quicker.

And if it's an ARC, same thing with sharing out-of-context quotes that wouldn't give a spoiler or even the same quotes the author would share in their social media.

But now with the update, I'm not really seeing much. To be honest, it has now prompted me to not add any book to my TBR shelf and even remove books from my TBR shelf just so I can see those posts. Again, I'm probably in the minority, and I know the founders mentioned there would be an update in the future where you can choose what you see on your home feed, which I'll be first in line to switch it to how it was so I can interact with people more and add books to my TBR without the chances of the book getting hidden.

Reward: You finished the book. That’s it. And also, you spent your time reading instead of sleeping. You’ll probably fuck up tomorrow for work.