okay judgement free zone right…? I crack spines, fold corners, and throw books in my bag like they belong there. Bookmarks? Page folds. Dust jackets? Optional. I read with the book folded in half. No spine is safe with me. Imo my books are meant to be loved, not preserved.

Shoutout to fellow chaotic readers… and props to those who keep their books immaculate. I genuinely don’t know how you read a book and keep it pristine, not even a crack in the spine. I see you, I admire you, but I’ll never be you.

Any other Type B readers out there, living that gloriously messy, well-loved book life? 🩵😈

I am over the moon to share that the app is officially live on both iOS and Android!!

We've quite literally poured our blood, sweat and (lots of) tears into the app development over the past 9 months and we could not be more thrilled for everyone to experience it!

We're still being indexed in app store search so you may have to scroll to find us, or type in Pagebound: Social Book Tracker. Here's links to iOS and Android: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pagebound-social-book-tracker/id6751526412 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.pagebound.app

There are quite a few improvements and new features in the app, including:

• Book Journeys (click the map icon on the book cards in your library and other user's library to see their posts, comments, and updates for a specific book)
• Quick access to "add to plan"
• Filtering your activity on profile
• Save posts
• upgraded Read Dates editing

This is the first release, so there will be many more additions and improvements to come. (PS for Android users: we're aware of two bugs related to library imports from Goodreads/Storygraph, and issues with editing read dates - these have already been resolved and are pending Google approval for release.)

We owe a huge thank you to our beta testers who worked diligently over the last month to report hundreds of bugs and help us get the app prepared for release. A huge round of applause to them.

We hope you love the app as much as we do; it definitely makes engaging on PB so much more convenient and fun. If you have a great experience with the app, we'd love if you'd consider supporting us through Pagebound Royalty; Lucy and I have worked for $0 over the past year to bring the app and website to fruition, and have been covering business costs with our savings accounts. Your contribution means we can continue to work full-time on Pagebound without influence from investors or advertisers, and keep Pagebound 100% for readers by readers. Thank you so much to all the Royalty who have already contributed; it truly means the world to us and keeps Pagebound online!

ok now go download the app and tell us what you think!

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

PS - leaving us a review in app stores also helps tremendously :)

With all the new people joining because the app is up and running (Yay!!!) I wanted to put a question out there:

When reading a series do you prefer to space out your readings (either with just a few days or an extended period of time) or are you a binge reader for series?

Personally, in the past I’ve been a binge reader! I love sitting down with a series and flying though the books. Still am to some extent, but since joining Pagebound I’ve been trying to read more variety so I haven’t been doing whole series at a time. It’s definitely a different experience, and I’m still trying to decide which one I prefer so I’m curious what everyone else thinks!