Many new updates, big and small, coming at you - Please update your apps to see them!

Summary of changes:

• On the app, a new "Feed" tab has been added to book pages. You can see status and progress updates from everyone on the site, along with stats for TBR, Finished etc across the site
• Giveaways will be available next week, planned launch is Jan 19th! Once giveaways are live, you can find them on the Discover page under Books
• The Mardi Gras/Carnival Special Event readalong starts today! Check Discuss to see the selections, badge, and how to participate
• Our very first Limited Time Quest launched today, in partnership with Simon Books. Check out Discover Quests, we're very excited about this one!
• Lists have been converted from the upvote/downvote system to a pure "Like" system
• On your custom shelves, you now have a "breakdown by status" section to see how many books in that shelf are in each reading status (bonus: cool way to do personal challenges)
• You can see how many books you finished in Quests you have not yet joined
• On the "currently reading" section of the homefeed, your books are now sorted by most recently updated

Why are we moving from upvotes/downvotes to likes for Lists? The upvote/downvote system was meant for community moderation, however now that we have PageboundGuides as moderators, we're asking the community to leave list moderation to the Guides. We want to make sure folks feel welcome to make lists - if someone makes a personal list, please do not corrective comment. The Guides will take care of it :)

How do Giveaways work? We've partnered with Publishers and Authors to giveaway books to the community. Once live, the Giveaway link will be on the Discover Books page. You can browse all the giveaways there, and enter by filling out a form with contact info (so we can send you the book if you win!). We know many folks are often disappointed when giveaways are only in the US and Canada - want to share with y'all that we do not have control over where giveaways are active. That is up to the publisher and author! As we grow, we hope more international publishers and authors know about Pagebound and want to partner with us.

How does the new Feed tab work on book pages? Since forum posts are meant for evergreen discussion, and folks comment on their status cards and progress update cards to share personal updates, we wanted to give everyone a way to share those personal updates beyond their immediate followers. We also wanted to give folks a way to see who is reading or wants to read a certain book, even if they are not following them yet. The Feed tab shows all status update and progress update cards, so you can more easily discover personal convos and reading buddies.

We'll be back soon with more updates!

Thanks everyone and happy reading, Jennifer & Lucy

If you were forced to go through one trial or game from books in this quest, which would you pick and why?

The scardy-cat in me wants to choose The Selection 😂

note: there may be mild spoilers as certain aspects of the game/trial are discussed

What is one book you hope to read before you die?

if you were to run away and join the circus/carnival/fairground, what role do you think you would have? and then maybe we can suggest book recs based on what we chose?

i think i would be someone who runs the games that you win prizes at, and Twilight Eyes' main character did that, so that's my rec.

Hey everyone!

As we (rapidly) approach the end of the year, a few friends and I have planned and designed a Reading Challenge Bingo Board for 2026, and thought it would be cool to share it with you all.

The main board has most of its prompts aimed at people on Pagebound (eg. Gain a new Main Quest badge, read a book from J&L’s favourite shelves) and is designed to be easily used by anyone, no matter the speed or type of books you usually read. We have intentionally made the prompts general, so that they can fit in with any other reading plans and goals you might have next year.

There aren’t really any rules, but I’ll list a few things you should be aware of.

⭐️ The prompts in the cross section of the board are the easiest, and bingo can be achieved with very few books (+ your reading goal, which is the centre square). ⭐️ Feel free to use one book to tick off multiple squares (or not). I think it would be fun to have an unofficial competition to see who can tick the most boxes with a single book. ⭐️ Some of the prompts are very difficult in that they require you to read a lot of books (get all Special Event badges, get gold in a Main Quest), but it’s obviously completely up to you which squares you aim for. It is designed to be used for the entirety of the year, so I tried to put some tricky ones in there. ⭐️ Two of the prompts involve a ‘Mini Board’. These are genre or topic specific bingo boards (with only 9 squares) that we have also designed. There are 10 at the moment but if the interest is there we do have plans to make more as we go. These two prompts are marked with an asterisk (*). ⭐️ In the Mini Boards there are a few prompts that are indicated with a plus sign (+), these have corresponding quests in Pagebound even if the name of the prompt is slightly different. Feel free to reach out if you’re confused which one we are referring to, and also feel free to read a book outside the quest that fits.

You are very welcome to use this in your own groups, by yourself, or reach out if you want buddy to share your progress with. Some of us are using discord to facilitate our bingo chats, let me know if you’d be interested in that - but otherwise I’m looking forward to seeing your reading around on PB. Excited to see what the wonderful world of books and Pagebound have in store for us in 2026!

Thank you to the amazing people that contributed to this in various ways, big and small x

Happy reading all!

Loving honks, Goosie 🪿

Links: Main Bingo Board Mini Boards: Fantasy, Romance, Classics, Litfic, Sci-fi, Horror, Retellings, Non-fic, Mystery, Smut. Lists & Quests resource doc