Pagebounders! Do you have a particular genre/theme you greatly dislike or refuse to touch? And on the flip-side, do you have a favourite genre? Feel free to also add in particular details or plot beats you enjoy or don't as well!

I'll go first: I don't have any particular genres I dislike, but for themes, I've recently decided that I'm no longer touching negative nihilistic books with a ten foot pole. Not for me... I just disagreed with a lot of the theses of past ones I've read and didn't have much fun with them because of that. I usually don't mind or even enjoy reading books that hold different views than me, but the whole "nothing matters so why bother" thing can get tiring fast. Maybe some day I'll find one that I enjoy, but until something catches my eye, I'll be staying away.

As for my favourites, I really enjoy historical fiction! Especially as a way to learn about cultures and time periods I didn't know much about previously. As for themes, I have a lot of fun with books that focus on love and human relationships. The power of friendship, baby, let's go! As such, I also really like books that have a lot of character interactions!

Hi!! I am vet sorry to writing off topic but I thought it was ok.. I love the app but I feel like maybe you should add more YA books to the readathons and reading challenges, or make different challenges etc, some people on this app are underage and I would love if I could participate in the reading challenges, but they are mostly adult.. sorry for bothering you!

Taste is subjective, but the star rating system is supposed to communicate the average opinion of a book. However, the way we use the star rating system is also subjective. I’ve been wondering what other people mean when they give their ratings. So what do you think the different numbers of stars mean?

For me: 5 = Perfect 4 = Great 3 = Good 2 = Fine 1 = Bad 0 = Terrible

I’m curious whether this is about how others think or if folks have totally different rating systems in their heads.

Hey there, all you lurking authors! I have come for unsolicited advice. If you're not a writer but a beta reader, I'd love your input too.

I've been looking into how best to distribute my written works in an organized way to make it more convenient for both myself and readers. To be clear, this is beta reading and not ARC, still way earlier in the process! I want to keep a tighter audience and I'm purely looking for feedback to take back into the next revision.

In the past, I've just mass emailed PDF's, and I've run into issues--complaints about formatting, mobile-friendly options, version control, and even just exporting the right excerpts, and I'd love some advice on all of it so I can see what I'm doing right and what I'm doing [or not doing] that could be improved.

Are there any tips, tools, or online platforms (preferably ones that don't use AI, but subscription costs are okay) that you recommend for accomplishing this? I'd love to hear some advice so I can optimize the process a bit. Thanks!

And finally, if you're into beta reading, what works best for you when you're reviewing a new work? Are there any experiences that have been particularly irksome or wonderful?

It's a little crazy what they used to put in foods back in the day. Arsenic?? Cocaine?? Like what do you mean??

For those of you that hear the words you read in your mind, do you ever find yourself skipping over some words? For me, I struggle with recalling pronunciations, especially with names and languages that are foreign to me. I will absolutely take the time to look them up but my mind will often stumble over them. When I stumble over words, it takes longer to read and since I know the meaning of the word or who the person is if it's a name, I will sometimes skip over it as I read. Like it will register with my eyes, but not in my mind where I hear the words.

Just curious if anyone does anything like this, either for this reason or another.

so i thought it wasn't okay to make a club post on a specific book bcs that's what the forums are for. they always get downvoted heavily. but when the book is popular it seems to be fine? is that how it is? i wanna know

Have you seen any stores entering their book era lately, stores that are typically unrelated to selling books?

Inspired by Jimmy John's who have been fangirling over the ACOTAR announcements since yesterday and are now hosting a pickle book titled "A Quart of Forbidden Brine" (sadly this doesn't actually exist) 🤣

I also saw ALDI US also fangirling over the same announcement but they deleted their post (rude)

Now Pizza Hut are posting about books using bread as bookmarks

But there's got to be other book announcements that got the book worms of stores social media teams to break character

I never experienced reading anxiety until I moved back home with my parents for my senior semester of college(doing it online) and realized that I get very nervous to read physical books around my parents. My dad especially makes fun of my fantasy books. Well, not ‘makes fun’ he just doesn’t understand them and gets this weird look when I mention what I’m reading physically. I know it’s stupid to get anxiety over this. That’s why I’m heavily considering reading all my books on kindle and then copying the kindle notes/highlights into my physical copy

I’m wondering whether other readers often find themselves getting pulled out of a story bc of knowledge/expertise they have.

I’m a legal academic (or training to be one, as I’m in my PhD right now) and when I read a book with speculative/fantastical elements which mentions how that interacts with the real legal system I’m always like 🥴🧐

I read a book recently where someone’s memory had been altered (in the near future) and the UK courts decided not to return his memories because it might be traumatic and I was like? Really?

Edited bc I was getting downvoted either for mentioning smth or for criticizing it, idk