The update is great and the new added avatars are amazing but I really miss my little green purple haired big black eyed mermaidd

Nothing against the new one I just get attached to everything 🥲

Hi everyone! We have submitted the app for app store approvals, so it should be publicly available very soon 🤞 In line with that, we have some very exciting design updates to share.

A new logo You’ve likely noticed the new logo and Pagebound icon, now visible on web. Since our app and website design are sisters, not twins, we redesigned the logo to tie both together. We won’t be changing the web design to match the app, so you can choose the experience and aesthetic that you prefer. We think each design suits its interface well, while retaining the whimsy and magic that is the spirit of Pagebound.

We also wanted more flexible and beautiful iconography that could work across app, web, socials (and that would look really cute on merch! 👀), and we’ve definitely achieved that with our new PB icon. We worked with illustrator Mariam Chagelishvili to create it and are thrilled to share that you’ll see more of her work soon…

Updated avatars (with new ones to come) We are excited to announce that we will be rolling out additional avatars for you to choose from—these “avatar packs” will be unlocked with each level you achieve on Pagebound. Check out the 2 new avatar options with Level 2 👀🎉

We’ve always known that as we grew, we’d need more options—lest every single comment come from the ghost 🙃. With Pagebound’s rapid growth, we’ve outpaced my ability to keep up with drawing new avatars. I’m happy to share that Mariam has taken over avatar creation and deserves all the praise for the future avatar packs releasing soon as well as the revamp you may have noticed to your current avatar. Through the lens of her own style, we asked her to preserve the essence of our OGs while creating a design system flexible enough to fit new concepts (ps I cannot wait until we release our cute vegetable pack 🥕)

We hope you love these visual changes that are a marker of how far we’ve come and how much we’ve grown!

*if you're still seeing old images, try clearing your cache!

I have to admit that i always skip prologue and jump to read chapter 1 👀 edited: Why do I skip prologues and jump straight to chapter one?

I mostly read 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, and after reading a few prologues, I noticed they often 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗹 things — like the 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮, 𝗮 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗲’𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲 — all of which 𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗽 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 anyway. (This happens not just in dark romance, but in romance in general.) For 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀, I tend to skip prologues because they usually 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝘄𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘂𝗽 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.

So for me, whatever’s in the prologue usually gets mentioned again in the chapters, which makes it feel unnecessary to read!

• 𝗶 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗳 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗔𝗥𝗖 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 🤓

Hello everyone! i need help from those of you who know how the website works.

A few months ago I was struggling with my goal number and not being able to fullfill it by the end of the year, and I came to the forum and talked to you about it. Plenty of you told me that i should lower my number so i could achieve the goal without the stress of trying to aim for a big sum, and i listened! After talking about it with so many of you I realised the preassure was something quite common amongst readers and that a lot of people changed their reading goal throughtout the year to match the pace that they were reading at.

So, that's what I decided to do. I set my goal to 12 and decided that once I made it to 12 I would edit my reading goal and make it 14, and once i achived 14 I would change it again so I could keep pushing myself to read more, step by step.

Today I read book #12 of the year and the website marked it as "completed her reading goal of 12". So far so good. I edited it to "14" and now the website marks "completed her reading goal of 14" while showing the tracking bar as incomplete. And now I don't know what to do. Did I fuck up my stats? My idea was to update my goal two or three books at a time but now I don't know if it will show as "complete" the second time i complete it (that is, two books in the future, and so on), or even if it'll show as incomplete from now on.

I don't know if i should change it back to 12 or if I broke it and, since I joined pageboung for the first time this year, I don't know exactly how this works.

Help?

i just wanted to come on & say thank you to PB + its creators + the wonderful community on here. i joined PB in early august because (1) discussion-based book space sounded amazing & (2) i desperately needed a distraction while waiting for my bar exam results 😵‍💫

during bar prep i only got through 2 books in three months, i couldn’t listen to music for months because i was scared that lyrics would take up “too much space” in my head, i didn’t dare do anything that wasn’t prep-work. i took the exam in july & then curled up & cried about it for a week before i decided i needed to do something to pass the time until results released, so i decided to start reading again

yesterday, 9/22, i got my results: i passed the bar!!!!!!!!!! i am officially baileyisbooked, esquire 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 (obligatory nothing-i-say-on-here-is-associated-with-my-job-or-license-and-is-my-own-opinion blah blah blah) 👩‍⚖️⚖️🍾🤍

i am getting sworn in on friday & i am just so grateful & relieved. i am a first gen student for both college & law school, so this really was a crazy push for me & my family is thrilled 😭🫶

i just wanted to say thank you to everyone, especially jennifer & lucy for creating a space like this. PB really saved my sanity for the last 8ish weeks while i waited. everyone has been wonderful, i have been reading books out of my normal range & loving them, & getting to talk to fantastic people about excellent books. it’s just been such a bright spot in what has otherwise been a high anxiety / dread period.

so yeah, that’s kind of it. thank yall for the work you put in & thank you everyone for the discussions & posts & recs & comments & quests & everything else. i hope everyone is having a great week & reading a 5-star read ❤️‍🩹🫂📖🥹