Just saw the post via Instagram, and I couldn’t be more excited about the next batch of quests coming. Congratulations to those chosen to be highlighted, and the badges are absolutely gorgeous. I’m keen to dig further into Religious Horror, so the quest centered around that is the one I’m gravitating to the most. Which quest do y’all plan on embarking on?

I feel like quests have become just like lists and there is no real difference between the two except for who can make them and the rewards. The quests have become so long that they are overwhelming and discouraging. It is more of a 'if I need a recommendation list,' but I thought that was what lists were for. I thought lists were basically a place to go for recommendations and to list what you wanted to get through. Quests to me were something to work towards, but they are so long now that I have no hope in finishing any of them. Or I was close, and then they updated and now I'm at 17 percent. Quests was one of the things that drew me to PageBound and I still love it, but I have avoided that part of it because it is so discouraging and overwhelming to look at. Even Side Quests are a little daunting. If I compared this to an RPG, the quests would be more like achievements, and side quests would equal main quests. I'd love to hear thoughts.

Is it possible to add a book to pagebound that doesn't have an ISBN? A lot of the books that I read are quite old (ISBN was only even introduced in the late 1960s!) and I can't figure out how to actually add these books, especially if they have been out of print for a bit.

Do shakespeare’s or Marlowe’s plays count? Or is this exclusively novel-form? Some poetic stories here are not novels, e.g. Rime of the Ancient Mariner or The Lumberjack’s Dove. They’re usually just considered regular poety.

It seems, in this quest, that any poetry that tells a story, or any story that follows the rules (arbitrary ik) of poetry is included.

In that sense, wouldn’t Shakespeare’s play’s count? I’m listening to Romeo and Juliet many of the dialogues are literal poetry. Is it because the poetry isn’t consistent in them? Unlike the examples I gave which is poetry from start to finish?

I’m yet to read all the book in this quest so I’m still trying to figure out what ties them together (for the record, I’ve read the post on quest intentions and what’s been included but I’m still confused). It’s quite difficult for me to distinguish between regular poetry and poetry stories, as I’m still trying to unlearn all the reductive and uninspired rules of poetry. I apologize if the question is silly.