Make the comments look like we're all locked in a bookstore together (doesn't matter which one) and none of us are willing to call the cops to get us out 🤣

Hi everyone, we've been quietly releasing new features and quality of life updates over the past month on all platforms, please make sure your app is updated to see the latest improvements!

One of the biggest updates is moderation improvement. We have new tools for both our moderators (who run the PageboundGuide account) and for the community:

• You can now report a post, review, or comment for spoilers
• You can send a post or comment to PBGuide for Content Guideline violations
• Of course, you can still flag a post, comment, review, or user profile for hate speech, harassment, self-promo, etc

PageboundGuides will review all reported content and either:

• add a spoiler tag to posts & reviews
• flag comments with spoilers
• approve flags for posts/reviews/comments/profiles that violate the Terms & Conditions (hate speech etc)
• archive Posts that do not meet the Posting & Content Guidelines

What is archiving? When a post does not meet the Content Guidelines (link here, quick version under Account & Settings -> Posting Guidelines in the app) PBGuide can archive the post from the book forum. The post is hidden from the default forum view but stays on your profile and book journey. You can include archived posts in your forum view by changing the forum filter from "All Posts" to "Include archived posts"

The PBGuides have been working hard behind the scenes to clean up very busy forums (especially the readalong forums). We know this has been a point of frustration for many, and giving everyone the ability to send these posts to PBGuide for review is just one of many ways we will be improving forum quality over the coming months.

Other New Features & Improvements

• Feed filters on your Main Feed and Following feed
• Message on your Yearly Challenge letting you know if you are ahead or behind on your goal
• Streaks! & editing past reading progress (click the streak widget to edit and view historical progress)
• Navigation changes on app: Profile is it's own tab where More menu used to be. The More menu is now on the top left next to the Pagebound logo
• Block & Report users from the profile page
• Reading progress bar added to the Book Page for currently reading books

Right now we are working on a huge, exciting project: Format tracking, stats, and monthly wrapups. Goal is to have this out in the next month!

You can always check the Roadmap to see what we're working on. If you want to support the continued development of Pagebound and add feature requests to the roadmap, please consider joining Pagebound Royalty (crown icon in the navbar)! Our Royalty members make it possible for us to provide a high quality, ad-free experience for all 🙏

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

Boundlings, I need your help! I broke my hand a few days ago (I’m okay and feeling very grateful for free healthcare and swipe-to-text) and it looks like I’ll be resting up for at least 2-4 weeks. Normally I’m primarily an audiobook girlie, but right now reading a physical book seems to work best for my poor sweet adhd brain, as it’s a bit more active while I’m bedridden and gives me something to do with my eyeballs and… hand. That’s the tricky bit! My dominant hand is pretty much out of commish, and keeping the book open with just my left is kinda tough if I want to read more than a few pages. Has anyone mastered the art of one-handed reading? Are those little tools you can slide onto your thumb any good? Would a couple of binder clips help, or do you think that’d make page turning too cumbersome? I know there’s gotta be folks out there who’ve hacked this problem already, please dispense your wisdom! I’m patiently waiting with my headlamp, splint, and stack of library books, looking extremely cool and down-to-earth. 💁🏻‍♀️

“Men, Fatma decided for perhaps the 100th time, were so strange.”

GIRL I FEEL THIS IN MY CORE. 😂😫

I loved doing this last week, and after having a post yesterday allowing us to complain (no matter how big or small) I wanted to flip the switch. TELL ME SOMETHING GOOODDDDDD🎶✨💭

Hello all🤗

I am currently on a bit of a short story kick, can anyone reccommend me their favourites? 🙈

Bonus points if they’re weird, uncomfortable, or make no sense (think “The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol) 🧚‍♀️

Thank you in advance🤗