Hi there, I have Pagebound royalty and I know that I can have up to 6 badges on my profile. I have 4 in total right now but my profile is only showing three. How do I change this?

Thanks! Also, yes I did check FAQ and couldn’t find an answer 🩷

I just filled out my reading plan for all of 2026 (I don't think December is available yet, which is fair) and it occurred to me that I'm probably not using the Plan as intended lol. Since I'm doing the Anti-Brainrot challenge and I want to read for some the (American) cultural observances each month, I piled in books that would be appropriate to read through out the year around when it'd be most appropriate to read them with enough options that my mood reading self has options, but I don't expect to read everything I put, especially not in the month I put them.

So how do you feel about the monthly plans? How are you using them?

I'm always curious when I see a List that's been downvoted. I understand the purpose of downvoting, especially in the Club if someone says something disagreeable or offensive. But for Lists, I'm often surprised to see a List with downvotes. Can y'all tell me why you might downvote a List? I'm genuinely curious!

Hey guys. I've not been reading these past few days but a question has been nagging my mind. Because I watch a lot of youtube videos and bookstagram and I see people owning like 5-6 editions of the same book and I'm like... Why? Is one not enough? (Sounds rude but it's a genuine question 😭) I personally do think that owning 5-6 editions of the same book is over consumption because it's a marketing tactic to increase sales and we're falling right into it. Kind of like musicians releasing 12 different versions of the same album. Like I get it. You want to support the author but you can do that buying their book once too. But I'm sure people disagree and I'm genuinely curious to know why. Why would one have multiple editions of the same book? Do let me know! I'd like to broaden my perspective on this.

I was thinking about this today, cause it /really/ pisses me off. I find it insane how certain books/authors will literally use literally the most ridiculous workaround to portray raw, no condom, no nothing, sex in the main plotline

My worst example for this is love hypothesis, and before trashing the sex scene, I have to say i actually liked this book. So Adam and olive are making out and getting in the mood, AND THEY GET TO THAT PART WHERE HE'S LIKE, WAIT, I DON'T HAVE A CONDOM and instead of literally doing anything else olive turns around and tells him, SHE IS ON BIRTH CONTROL????? mind you, Olive is self proclaimed demisexual, and for a while outside of a relationship, an academic working for quote unquote inhumane hours, SHE DOES NOT HAVE AN ACTIVE SEX LIFE. Olive also doesn't have any forms of pcos or any other complications, her randomly being on birth control, WHEN IT IS NEVER MENTIONED BEFORE IN THE BOOK, is insane to me, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S ONLY THERE SO ADAM DOESN'T HAVE TO WEAR A CONDOM Edit: Bc my point for this came off wrong, I'm editing to say ik birth control has many uses, my main issue was that it felt as just an excuse for said unprotected sex to happen, which is the trope in intimacy scenes that I'm complaining about. The fact that there's no other basis for it and she just blurted it out was what irked me, not the fact that she might, hypothetically, take it. I have to mention here that's not the only just thrown there characteristic that I didn't enjoy in the book, as an aroace person I disliked how her demisexualness was explored and also just blurted it out, in the first few chapters, but that's a whole different matter. I just dont think it was nuanced or ernest

And it got me thinking, just how many romance books/eroticas pull strings like these to portray this fantasy Edit: I'm not shitting on ppl enjoying this trope, I mention later on I've had my run with it as well, just from the broad selection of spicy books I have encountered, I think its over glorified and way too common. To compare, just as I expect a book with bdsm elements to do it in a safe, consensual, not necessarily educational but good way, from a similar pov I find it frustrating that unprotected sex is often shown as more 'sexy' and has no reprecautions whatsoever, not maybe even a little mention. My main issue is sexual health, not conception

I think this is annoying especially in /way/ too much about having to wear one and the measures of protection from pregnancy fall only on the woman (my girls birth control isn't always effective). And that aside why are we glorifying std spreading? I can understand a scene where after a while they don't have one at hand and they use it as a "I need this so bad do whatever" but this is totally different

I'm not gonna say that books have to be a hundred percent textbook accurate cause some of these are just for fun too, but it's getting to a /point/ yk. Idk what's your opinion on this, do we like the rawdogging?

and where do you find what books are coming out when? rn i rely on author announcements and goodreads.

I'm coming to you, friends of pagebound, and I'm going to be open and vulnerable and admit that I have a bias against the way male authors write romantic relationships within fiction. I can fairly confidently say that I have never read a compelling romance written by a man. I feel like it often leans toward very quick, in and out type scenes, very physical and unemotional. My husband just read me a snippet from the book he's reading right now (World Without End by Ken Follet) and it made him laugh and me cringe. I'm so willing to be proven wrong about this, and I would love recommendations on books written by men where the romantic relationships are believable and loving. I will admit that the majority of books that I read are written by women, and I want to be able to leave this bias that I have in the past! I want evidence that this prejudice that I have is completely unfounded, and I just haven't read the right books yet.

Editing to add that I'm really hoping I'm not coming off as not being genuine in any way, I'm really hoping for recommendations for books that readers love! I love love, and I love reading about love and romance, regardless of the genre too! Some of the relationships that I have personally found the most compelling have been in historical fiction, sci-fi, or fantasy novels! I'm equal opportunity when it comes to reading about romance 💖

I looked to see if this has been discussed and didn't see anything. How are people tagging TBR books vs Interested books? Obviously you can do it however right but I'm curious what the difference for people is. My TBR is literally thousands soooo I am thinking I will make Interested be like my more immediate reads wants.

This year's Spotify Wrapped is out and I thought it would be a good time to start a little recommendation game based on your most streamed album(/artist/song) this year! I recently saw a post doing a similar thing with the Letterboxd Four and thought it was a super cute idea.

Just post your personal album of the year in the comments and other users will do their best to find a book with similar vibes. (Of course you don't have to use Spotify to participate.)