I've been looking to follow more people, so curious about how everyone else does it! Do you have friends irl that you've invited here? Do you use the "% overlap"? Do you find folks you vibe with in the discussions and just add them? I've tried the "readers with similar taste" list in the Discover page, but because it suggests people based on them having at least one book similar to mine in the "My Taste" section, I think it works better for people who have fairly uniform taste in books (e.g. typically reading from one or two genres, which I don't) and also leans towards matching based on books that have been widely read by the Pagebound community.

Do you ever read a BookTok rec just to be part of the convo, even if it’s not your vibe?

it’s a new month, what are some books you’re hoping to read this August?

Subjectively, obviously. But I find myself struggling with giving books ratings because sometimes I really enjoy books that aren't that groundbreaking, and other times books that have a really good style have such a bad plot I just hate them. Today I realized tho my personal measure for whether a book's good in my opinion is whether I feel like rereading it. Finished a book yesterday with conflicted feelings and realized I dont wanna reread it as opposed to the last few books which I gobbled up and reserved permanent spaces in my shelf for :D

Hey so my sister is 12, turning 13 on october and want to start reading but idk what to recommend if you have recommendations for books you enjoyed at that age or books who are appropriate for kids id appreciate them !

If you see me adding a bunch of books to my TBR, no you didn't shhh. (There are so many interesting books😫)

It's already august (crazy) so I feel like it's the perfect time for a reading wrap up! I absolutely love seeing monthly wrap ups and what people read during the whole month and what their favorite books were. My reads of the last month were: - The Knight and the Moth - 4★ - Love in Focus - 3★ - Enigma - 4★ (such a pleasant surprise and I'm very excited to read other books by the author) - Tusk Love - 4★ - Last Night at the Telegraph Club - 4★ - A Scatter of Light - 2.5★ - Not Safe for Work - 4★ - Dream On, Ramona Riley - 3★ - Legends & Lattes - 4★ - Empire of the Vampire - 4.5★ (my favorite read of the month and I still can't stop thinking about it)

I was curious as to how you decide which badge to show on your profile. A specific quest you are working on? Something that you achieved? One that has pretty colours or a mood you are feeling?

I used to rate books with ".25" and ".75" stars (especially on StoryGraph) but now in my opinion 3.25 can just be 3 stars and 3.75 can just 4 stars. And in pagebound i think its nice to not confuse myself with this bc here it's only .5! What do you think?

After having a really good conversation with a coworker/friend it got me to thinking. Why do you read? Do you read to escape (that's me), for pure enjoyment (also me) or to better educate yourself/learn something new?

I like Henry but her books are so hit or miss for me. I was so excited for this and so many people have been raving it but I'm about to DNF bc I just can't get myself to care about the characters more than like a *twinge* of intrigue...

Out of curiosity I just wonder if other people do this, I usually do the standard reading goal of reading a certain amount of books but I also do specific reading goals like reading this many physical books, reading this number of books that I had since I was 13, reading every fae book I have, rereading a favorite series. So do you have just one reading goal or multiple?

I'll go first. They make me feel so guilty low-key. Like I feel like I always need to chug through it no matter what. Because I always have that "It might get good. You never know" feeling in the back of my mind so I'm so scared to DNF. I feel like I would rather chug through and hate it rather than DNF and be at peace. I just need to know fully. And eventually I get to like 50% and I feel like I put too much time into it to DNF. So I just keep going.