I am admittedly not super discerning about audiobooks (like, I've never DNF'd because of a narrator, but I have thought to myself, 'Wow, they really can't do X accent').

Since we can give audiobooks their own specific star rating outside the actual quality of the book, I'm wondering how other folks decide their rating.

I've landed on giving 4s for almost everything and 5s if it truly has been sound designed (effects, music, etc) or if it being in an audio format enhances it more than being on the page. I can't really imagine what I'd consider a 2 or 3. I think if it was bad enough from me to actively notice, I'd give a 1. For me, it's almost binary - either it's fine or it's outstanding, I haven't listened to any that I'd consider terrible (and I do consume most of my books via audio).

What's your criteria?

[reposted due to messing up the hyperlink first time i posted]

hey everybody, i was glancing through past founder announcements recently and saw one that caused some worry in me, link here

i’ll copy here the specific section of the post that concerned me, so you don’t have to click through and read the full announcement if you don’t want to: “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.”

i’d love to hear what other people here think about this feature. personally, i’m concerned that it could turn into a popularity contest/a value system based on who is the most active on PB and which usernames are recognized by the most people. i really hope that there will be something in place to prevent that sort of result, because a popularity contest doesn’t feel like the PB spirit i know. i just don’t believe that voting for a member-of-the-month will be the community-building exercise that it is intended to be.

Ciao Bookaholics!

How has everyone been?

As we know, Pagebound has a feature to search and discover by emojis!! So my question this week is...

Describe your current book using only 3 emojis. 😎

I'll go first: 🎨🔥🤫