acloudofbats commented on a feature request
this may be a selfish request that benefits no one other than me lol but it’s my first time logging a book to “reading” using the cool new update to determine which type of reader experience you’re using (i.e., print, audio, digital, tandem), and i use spotify premium for my audiobooks, so calculating my percentage is the best tracking method for this audiobook experience (as i have done in the past), but the option for percentage is not available on the page when you update a book in your library to set reading status (only options are # pages read and minutes listened HH:MM).
for context, spotify shows how many minutes are in each track (separated by chapter). so ch 1 would be 4 minutes long, ch 2 would be 8 minutes long, etc. it even shows many hours/minutes are left in the audiobook, but not how much has been listened to.
example: spotify shows i’m at 8 hours and 49 mins left until completion, 11 percent complete, and listened to 8:13 minutes out of 11:03 in chapter 3 only.
would we be able to add percentage tracking to audiobook as an option? happy to email screenshots to better show what i mean 🩵
acloudofbats commented on a feature request
The ability to select multiple books at a time to change status (such as changing TBR's to Interested), or to remove permanently from library would be really nice. I'm thinking something like you have in email, where you can click the boxes next to the several of the emails, or "select all" of the junk mail to mark it read or delete it all at once.
I imported from GR and have hundreds of books that I'm not really interested in. Plus I want to change how I use my shelves and doing all of these books one at a time with a pop-up and a confirmation is miserable.
It's so hard to believe this hasn't been requested, but I promise I used the search function AND scrolled for a really long time looking!
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Howdy, well met, and good tidings to you, friend!
It can be a bit lonely in space, so we’re putting together a crew to venture into the farthest reaches of questdom. First series on our journey? James SA Corey’s The Expanse.
For those unfamiliar, this series is nine (9) books, which is par for the course in an “epically scoped” quest. However, this one is special because it’s actually intended to be read as three duologies and a final trilogy, so that’s what my hope is for our pacing.
We will be starting with Leviathan Wakes on April 1 and taking the month to read through and discuss! It’s about 600 pages (21 hours for our ear-readers) with plenty of thematic elements and characters to keep track of, so take your time. You’ll have a crew at your back to chat with!
Speaking of, in order to help us find each other a little better, if you make your own post, feel free to put OES🚀 in the header/title so we can easily see our buddy read friends. Make sure to follow standard Pagebound evergreen 🌲 etiquette by searching the forum and commenting on similar posts before making a new one.
We’ve got a great crew shaping up, and I’m looking forward to chatting with and getting to know you all as we progress! Godspeed, and good luck, spacer! 💕 🚀

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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
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The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future
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Post from the What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) forum
The mushroom's gills were the deep-red color of severed muscle, the almost-violet shade that contrasts so dreadfully with the pale pink of viscera. I had seen it any number of times in dead deer and dying soldiers, but it startled me to see it here.
Perhaps it would not have been so unsettling if the mushrooms had not looked so much like flesh. The caps were clammy, swollen beige, puffed up against the dark-red gills. They grew out of the gaps in the stones of the tarn like tumors growing from diseased skin.
A book's opening sets the tone, whether the first line, first paragraph, first chapter, and T. Kingfisher sets it so well here. The description of mere mushrooms likened to the innermost parts of a human body evokes some kind of instinctual fear, something that immediately feels both natural and wrong, something that sets the flesh crawling the longer it seeps into our thoughts. Even the parts compared to flesh have that sense of wrongness, with words like clammy, swollen, tumors, and diseased being used. It's the feel of body horror without a body to corrupt (yet).
I immediately want to paint something using these colors to see if I can get a sense of wrongness with a combination of otherwise beautiful colors in this limited palette, but I'm a little goblin with a taste for the grotesque.
acloudofbats commented on electrikate's review of Going Batty For You: A Planet WLN269 Needs Women Story
(Disclaimer: I spent an embarrassing amount of time googling “bat penis” and “bat sex” while reading this book.)
This was pure fluffy sweet scifi alien love 💕 it was cute, & focused completely on the romance between Phyllorak and Robin. I was giggling at how respectful Phyllorak was.
I do have some concerns about the ejaculate situation. But maybe that’s best left unsaid.
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Morsel
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acloudofbats commented on a feature request
(I sincerely hope I haven't already made this request before, I know I've at least thought about it, but I have a bad memory and couldn't find anything when I searched)
Sometimes I lose track of what posts I've already engaged with, for example in busy forums where discussion topics get repeated, or for things that come back across my feed when someone I follow comments (see above comment on bad memory lol). It isn't a huge inconvenience to figure it out unless there are already loads of comments, but it would still be so helpful if the same way that the upvote/downvote arrows get colored in after you use them, leaving a comment also fills in that comment bubble on the card for whenever you see it going forward.
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Railed: A Why Cho-Cho-Choose Romance
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acloudofbats commented on alexz's review of Creatures on a Half Shell (Creatureverse Book 1)
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acloudofbats commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hello guys, I'd like to start reading some of Freida McFadden's books. Do you have any recommendations? I don’t know where to start