I tend to favor audiobooks and I also have a job where I can often listen to them for a large portion of my day. As a result I read pretty fast. Sometimes I feel like I read a bit too fast, so when it comes to numbers I make a habit of setting my goal at something I probably will surpass without pushing to read faster in a somewhat futile effort to remind myself there’s no need to rush. But it also feels a little weird to meet the benchmark too early, so when that happens I sometimes change the goal to something a little higher. I met the number I set this weekend, and I was wondering are there thoughts about changing your goal after meeting it on Pagebound? Is it like cheating for the ‘met the goal’ message to show up on your feed more than once in a year? Is it considered gaming the system for points? Because that’s not what I want to do but I’d kind of prefer to move the goal post.

Hi Everyone! I'm helping my friend organize a new book club, but she's the extroverted one - so I don't know the majority of the people joining and can't really tailor to their tastes/preferences for the first meeting. She suggested a mystery/thriller would probably be a good choice, so I thought I would come ask the experts for y'all's opinion on beginner friendly crowd pleaser book club book recommendations!

Hard Boundary: No plots or sub-plots involving harm to children/infants please!

Would be nice if it had...: A good audiobook narrator option, ideally under 400 pages, minimal on page graphic violence, and/or either new-ish or a hidden gem (I'm hoping to avoid picking a book that half the group has already read).

My mindset on beginner friendly: easy to follow and ideally has a fast hook/good momentum. (Particularly for the people who are just now starting to read/get back into reading, I want to show/remind them how fun reading can be!)

If y'all have any recs, I would love to hear them!

i just added the book "Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life" by Samuel Lover to pagebound but the book page lists the pub date as 2001 (its the same on good reads. both are wrong) the book was published in 1842 (which it states in the description) is there a way to recommend an edit/make one?

Long ago I found that annotating books just didn't work for me. I tried so many different methods and ways of doing it, I tried just straight up taking notes in a separate book, but it never felt right to me or like I was really helping myself in any way, and I just didn't feel like I was retaining as much of what I read as I could. The thing that I eventually found that helped me isn't any type of annotation or note-taking, but it does combine reading with another hobby of mine: collecting Bratz and Monster High dolls. Every time I finish a chapter, I re-enact it completely from memory with the dolls. I have found that I actually remember more than I think, and the re-enactment helps me remember it for even longer. I've actually found it to be super fun and I've gotten really into it by holding casting auditions with the dolls for every new character introduced and everything. It might seem a little weird to other people, but I enjoy it and it actually helps, so I was wondering if anyone else has special ways like this that you probably wouldn't learn in school as a way to retain more from your reading and interact with the text but that are fun and help you?