Hi everyone, a quick announcement about Seasonal + Special Event Readalongs:

For those of you that have been around since the summer, you may have participated in our first Special Event Readalong for Pride. This was a huge hit and fostered PB-wide discussion on queer characters and stories (and bonus: the badge was rad). To continue fostering discussions on more niche and diverse books & voices, we'll be hosting a Special Event readalong once a season.

Our second Special Event will run from October 15 - November 15 and will be (drumroll please...) Dia de los Muertos 2025! Head to the Discuss tab and click on the box above the feeds to check out the selections and see the new badge (and if you're new, click the purple info icon next to the Fall Readalong header on Discuss to learn more about readalongs on Pagebound).

Since we're committing to one Special Event a season, we don't want to overwhelm folks with too many Readalong books. While you only need to read 1 book in a Special Event to earn the badge (and there is no "completionist" sparkly badge), we will limit Special Event picks to 3 books. Starting with the Winter 2025 Readalong, Seasonal Readalongs will only include 4 books. This way, you still only have to read a max total of 5 books per season to earn all Readalong badges available.

As for product updates, looks like most of you have already noticed some of the bigger changes on the site but for those that missed it, the following has been updated over the past 2 weeks:

• Discover Books got a little makeover: every day, we feature a new emoji and show you books whose ratings most frequently feature that emoji. Some of the emojis in rotation will be seasonally themed :) we also show you books that were the most discussed/finished/TBR'd yesterday, so the featured books will change daily and will showcase less mega popular titles.
• the Similar Users list got an update. Before, we were showing any user with over 30 points in that list; now, we prioritize active accounts, so you can find people you're more likely to actually engage with. I'll be making further tweaks to this in the coming weeks.
• No more HTML tags in posts/comments, please use markdown instead! See the Pagebound Club post on this for more info.
• We will save your total page count and pre-populate it when you post using Pages to calculate progress.

We're still beta testing the app but are on track for and end of month release!

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

so... do you guys have a hard limit on how many books you'll read at once? what is that number determined by? i somehow keep reading like 6 books at the same time and now i'm curious what other people do and how y'all manage!

i tend to just... borrow 1 book that has like no one waiting for it, 2 books of different genres that i can pause at any time and not feel pressure about it, and then the rest on top of that are whatever holds become available and i want to read them next. especially if it's a book that has been on hold for a looong time and i've been waiting quite a few weeks, i'll just go ahead and borrow it and collect my loans like a little gremlin.

...i also want to note that someone had mentioned in a previous discussion (i forgot who - if they show up or i remember, i'll add their user here!) that once you borrow a book on libby and make sure you have the book downloaded, you can go on airplane mode, return the book on a different device, and keep the book for however long you need to read it. i only just now did it because i amassed too many delicious books this time around, whereas the last time this happened i just devoured them fast enough before my loan deadlines. so thank you to whoever that was!

Abby Craden could read me the dictionary and I would still be so riveted. 😍

constantly on the verge of reorganising my shelves, but i always struggle to commit to an order! feel free to share how you overcome this aesthetic challenge 🥺🫶🏻

Does anyone want to be mutuals? I’m looking for more people to follow so I have different updates to scroll through on the main page. ☺️ doesn’t matter if we have a high percentage overlap or not. I’d love to see what everyone’s reading/commenting/posting about.

I was really enjoying it at first, especially the haunted house aspect, but around the middle it went in a direction that didn’t work for me. It’s not even a long book, but it’s taking me forever to get through.

Oh. I had to check the blurb again... Now I know what that fantastical is doing there. I hope it won't bother me too much but right now it feels a bit like a tiktok skit.