Hey everyone! We have exactly one month left in the Spring Readalong, which means Summer 2025 Readalong picks have officially dropped. You can see all 5 selections over on the Discuss tab :) We've also squeezed in some web updates between app development: - You can now see the publication year on the Book Page below the description. Some of these dates may be the edition's pub date rather than the original publication year; this is a known data issue so apologies in advance! It will be sorted out as we get more robust book data. - Various bug improvements including preventing double user follows We have more requested feature updates in the pipeline; I'll be back soon when they're released! Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy 💜💙 PS - Our community has grown so much over the past few weeks and it has been SO fun to watch everyone connect and interact. Thank you for making Pagebound such an amazing place and welcoming in our new members!!

Was just curious if you all like annotating/highlighting books (sorry audio book enjoyers 🫠). And if you do, do you have a system you made for yourself? I personally love tabbing and highlighting books! I typically have 3 highlight colors - pink for lines that made me feel emotional, yellow for quotable quotes, and teal for any lore/world building details 🥹

Maybe a bit of a vent? I'm interested finding my people. I don't read romances. Never have, doubt I ever will. I need plot to keep me going, and I do not consider will they - won't they plot. I think I just don't enjoy character driven content. Am I dead on the inside? Soulless? Anti-intellectual? Short attention span? A different booktok buzzword? I do enjoy a romance element in books, but I means that: element. Has to be queer for me to be even remotely interested of course. I'm reading A Marvellous Light at the moment-which is a sort of romantasy I guess-and I am enjoying it I guess, but I'm just not interested in the romance scenes. Does it make me a bad reader, not to want to sit with a character during introspective, romantic or slower moments? Is there a romance book out there for me somewhere that will finally make me understand?

So I was curious since I'm doing the tandem read of Empire of Storms and Tower of Dawn, how many pages I've read this year. I know this can vary depending on the print vs ebook, since I primarily read ebooks I used those counts. I also included the 88% of the tandem I've read so far. Shortest Book: A Court of Frost and Starlight at 229 pages Longest Book: The Priory of the Orange Tree at 848 pages Total Pages YTD: 12,282 (Technically the tandem will be the longest when it's done at 1380 if I consider it one book) Bonus word count YTD (estimate): 4,368,800 🤯