Hi everyone, we have some community updates to share. Pagebound has grown significantly since the app launched in October, and to support this larger group we're revamping our Quest creation and community recognition programs.

We have decided to sunset the Top Contributor program. We started the program in the early days of Pagebound to recognize active community members and help build the culture. TC's created Quests, welcomed new users, answered questions, and helped us behind the scenes with beta testing, user interviews, and feedback. We are so grateful to the 80+ TC's who were crucial in helping shape the platform & culture as we built the v1 of so many features.

To make Quest creation and community recognition more democratic and community-oriented, we will have two paths for Quest creation:

• We will continue the community-voted List initiative, where each quarter Royalty members nominate Lists to be turned into Quests, and the entire PB community votes on the nominated lists. We will have 3 winners per quarter for a total of 12 list-to-quests a year.
• We will start a new program, community-voted Member of the Month (exact language TBD). Each month starting in the Fall, the entire PB community can nominate a user they believe embodies PB values. The user with the most nominations will be awarded a badge and the ability to create a Quest.

We will have more details on this new program when voting nears :)

Editing to add: Former members of the Top Contributor program who had Quests in-progress will be able to release those Quests. We have not put a time limit on this since curating a Quest takes a ton of work, and many hours have already been invested in these Quests. You'll continue to see some final Quests created by former TCs be released over the next months.

App + Product Updates The Discover People section got an upgrade: at the top, you'll see a Featured My Taste book that rotates daily, similar to the Featured Emoji. We highlight active users with that book in their My Taste section

We also fixed some small edge-case bugs related to progress updates + tracking. Reminder: you need to track your progress to see daily pages/minutes updated in your stats! So if you start & finish a book in the same day, you'll need to track progress still to see that graph updated (this is because there are some folks who don't track daily, and if we auto-tracked, stats would look very incorrect).

Thank you everyone for keeping this community thriving, PB wouldn't be what it is today without everyone's support & engagement. We can't wait to recognize new community members with these new initiatives, and are so excited to see what Quests y'all cook up. And of course, a special thank you to our Top Contributors who invested so much of their free time, love, and energy into this community. A round of applause for the (retired) TCs 👏👏👏

Happy Reading, Jennifer + Lucy 💜💙

hi hi, finally making my first club post, eek! 🫣😆

now that I've been on PB for a couple of months I've settled into a pretty consistent use of the available statuses beyond the want to read/reading/read options available on other (objectively inferior 🧐) platforms. i know there have been a few posts on this topic but thought i would share mine in case it helps anyone still figuring it out (but also I'm nosy and want to know how everyone else is using them too and if it's different than what I'm doing lol) i don't use a lot of custom shelves or follow a reading plan of any kind (just straight up vibes over here 😎😂), so this is my main method of sorting and organizing titles.

none either i have no knowledge of this book or i have no desire to ever read this very much subject to change of course

interested this book looks interesting, i think i would enjoy it, and would like to read it, with no immediate or concrete plans to actually do so. i use this status more like a bookmark/save tbh, especially so when i'm scrolling through quests and lists i can easily see which books i've already flagged as possible candidates for our next status....

tbr i would like to read this book soon, and have taken action in order to do so, ie. taken out a library hold, purchased my own copy (tho owning a book does not automatically mean it goes on my tbr), etc. this list is the closest thing i have to a reading plan and i STILL dont necessarily follow it or prioritize its contents over other books that catch my eye lmao it's a plan....ISH, emphasis on the -ish 😬😆 also I try to keep total tbr under 30(ish lol) so i do go through from time to time and flip things back to "interested" that have slid down the ranks in priority or that I'm not as excited about anymore

reading currently in the process of reading or listening to this book usually as one of 4-5 at a time of various genres / tones, which i have found to be my personal bookish happy place, bc i can hop around between them depending on my mood, take breaks from heavier, denser reads without actually having to stop reading lol, and so on

paused i'm not going to keep reading this book right now, but i might come back to it. sometimes it's just a matter of needing something else in my 4-5 book mix at any given time, sometimes i can just tell I'm not in the right mood or circumstance for a certain book but know i would probably enjoy it otherwise, sometimes i just have a vague feeling of not vibing with a book and I'm not sure why...but would be willing to take another stab at it at some point. basically this list is the reader equivalent of "it's not you it's me" hahaha

dnf i am not going to keep reading this book rn nor do i have any intention of coming back to try again at any point in the future. not many books end up here tbh, and the ones that do are more of a warning for future me, bc i have ADHD goldfish brain and forget everything!! so this status reminds me, like, no, we did not like this one, move along, nothin to see here haha i dont consider this status, from me or anyone else, to be a condemnation of the book in general. but also weeeee are never ever ever getting back together 💁‍♀️🤣

ok now tell me yours!! do u think anything i'm doing is weird, or are YOU doing something weird, what are your thoughts and feelings about book statuses, and what do u think about how u feel, and how do u feel about what u think, tell me everything! 😄😁

I became a boundling. 😂 . . . [Edit: I used to _______ but then I ______. Or, how has PB changed your reading habits?]