as in title i got to try a negroni and eat a slice of pizza while eating and reading in almost complete silence it's the ultimate parallel play experience with reading i cannot recommend enough

Hello fellow boundlings!! You know the drill… what’s a recent complaint (no matter how big, small, silly, dramatic, serious, etc) you need to shout to the void ?!📣

If you read ebooks and have never checked out Project Gutenberg, please go look now! https://www.gutenberg.org/

If you are aware of the wonders of this amazing website, what is your favorite book you've read from there?

Right now, I'd say The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchman

Hi all, I'm doing a bunch of quality of life improvements right now and wanted to let you know ahead of the next founder announcement that some feed changes just went live. In an effort to make your feed more interesting and include content you can actually interact with, the following changes were just added:

When you mute a book from your feed, it will also mute comments & posts created by people you follow for that book

You will not see spoiler book posts from people you follow if that book is not in your library

You will not see comments made on book posts from people you follow if that book is not in your library

Hopefully this makes your scrolling more relevant to you! You can always see every post and comment from someone you follow in their book journey (when you click on a book, tap on "Activity from people you follow" and click the map icon next to someone's username)

In NZ 🇳🇿, books range from $30-$50 😢 Hardcovers cost even more (worst I’ve seen is $80 for a memoir) When I travelled overseas, I was overwhelmed by how cheap everything was!

I’ve been thinking a lot about how the books I read as a child shaped my taste in books now. My childhood favorite series was The Spiderwick Chronicles, (whimsical but dark, horror/fantasy,) and I can clearly see how that’s influenced my current taste in books (Root Rot and Don’t Let the Forest In for example.) My other favorite book series was How to Train Your Dragon, and again I can directly see how that’s impacted my taste (Liveship Traders and the rest of Robin Hobb’s work.) So I was wondering if anyone else had a similar experience with the books they read as a kid shaping their current taste in books. Or I guess not even just books, it could be shows, movies or other types of media. Edit to add: another childhood favorite of mine was The Mistmantle Chronicles, which is basically Redwall. Criminally, I’ve never read Redwall, but it’s also anthropomorphic animals with swords, and it’s basically the kid equivalent of political intrigue fantasy.

I sometimes start worrying that I've forgotten books, and I will even start worrying I'm going to forget even while reading. I remember certain books that I read ages ago, usually my most favorite, but I'll get into a downward spiral where I'm so afraid of forgetting that I lose my interest in reading. Like, what's the point in reading if I'm just going to forget?

I've tried reading slower to try to retain as much as possible to my memory, but I can't read any slower! Are there a certain amount of books a month/year that you've noticed you start to forget more if you pass it?

I'd like to hear other opinions about this. Do you worry? How long do you remember the books you read? Is it ok to say "I don't remember", and does it still count as read if it's forgotten?

I recently started reading again after a decade of second to none, help me out of my spiral!