Hello! Obviously we all love books here, but I’m curious about everyone’s hierarchy of media.

Kinda late to this party, but I just finished watching the show Hacks and it affirmed that nothing makes me feel the way a brilliantly-crafted tv show does.

So, how would you rank the following: books, movies, tv, music, podcasts, and video games. Feel free to just rank ‘em or add an explanation!

I think mine is: tv, books, music/movies (too hard to pick), podcasts, video games.

Excited to hear yours!!

Today’s my 30th birthday and while I feel like I know a lot more than I did at 20, I fear I still don’t much at all.

I’ve seen lots of posts on Instagram about what people wish they knew in their 20s but have never seen anything like that for 30s and would love if our older and wiser boundlings could share their wisdom with us and tell us what they wish they knew in their 30s 🥹

I’d also love book recs with older female protagonists! Some of the people in my life are making me feel like I’m now too old for fun and I really need some older ladies to remind me that adventures can be had at any age 😩 I loved Miss Marple, Nettle and Bone, and am currently reading Miss Percy’s guide to dragons series so anything in that vein. I’m planning to check out the older women in SFF list as well (really hope it becomes a quest 🥹) but would love everyone’s personal recs 🫶🏽

The new app version, 1.1.92, is available on iOS and Android! This includes a host of bug fixes and improvements, which I will list for curious minds at the end of the post, but we have 4 major new product updates:

Audiobook rating: For any book for which you marked the format as "audiobook" or "tandem", there is a new Audiobook sub-rating, which also appears on the Book page. This is your rating for the audiobook experience, and can help you decide which books to read on audio! As we gather more audiobook rating data, we can do interesting things like suggest top audiobooks.

Add a book to the Pagebound database: The process for adding a new book to the PB database has changed due to some unexpected restrictions from Goodreads. We used to be able to add books simply by dropping in the book's Goodreads URL, but now we have a manual entry form. We always intended to have a manual entry option, as often Goodreads data isn't great and we now have the flexibility to add books that are not on Goodreads. When adding a new book, please take care to read the instructions!! This is very important to keep the integrity of our database.

Genre Tags: With this new "add book" process, we have also introduced a Tag system for books. Right now, we are collecting Main Type (fiction, non fiction), Book type (novella, novel, essay collection, etc), Audience (adult, ya, etc) and Main Genre (Fantasy, Biography, etc). These tags are already available on the book page, however we only have data for newly added books at the moment! We will be collecting this data and adding more robust tags for subgenre and themes in the coming weeks. Really excited about this!! We can do a lot of cool things once we have genre data, like show pages dedicated to each subgenre and have genre stats.

Librarian Program: With the new manual book entry system and our new ability to tag genres (and soon: series!!), we are rolling out a Librarian Program. Librarians will verify user-entered book data, help us collect genre and series data for existing books, clean up existing book entries, and help deduping efforts (where we have more than 1 listing for a single book). Soon, we will have a way for users to flag missing or incorrect book info, which Librarians will also respond to. This is a volunteer program and an integral part of building Pagebound -- if you are interested in becoming a volunteer, you can check out the application here!

Thank you for you patience and understanding as we roll out these new processes!

As for additional updates in this release:

• new image system that delivers & loads book cover images quicker
• more reliable comment posting / liking / upvoting when internet connection is weak on app
• new sorting options for follower/following lists
• Discuss page shows a review feed instead of the All Book Posts feed
• you can use markdown in List descriptions
• quite a few other small quality of life improvements, check out the Roadmap "released" section if you're curious!

Thanks everyone and happy reading, Jennifer + Lucy 💜💙

I normally never use bookmarks but I am rn so it got me wondering, what are you using as a bookmark right now? scrap paper, library receipt, gum wrapper, actual bookmark?

Currently I’m using a fortune from a Panda Express fortune cookie: Be gentle with yourself, you’re doing the best you can. 🫶🏼🫶🏼so cute. If I remember correctly I got it in the Denver Airport 2 years ago.

cheers, PB 5ever!

I thought it might be nice to make a list of novels whose main characters are artists — painters, musicians, writers, etc. I was wondering if anybody might have any recommendations for such a list. I think it could be a huge list, especially because all sorts of artists would be welcome. The only real rule is that it has to be the main character who is an artist, and that something about the plot has to relate to the fact that they are an artist. In other words, it has to be a story that would not make sense if you took the main character’s love of art out of it.

I tried finding a list like this but couldn’t. It’s a relatively simple idea, so if it’s already been done, I’d love to know! Otherwise, I will make the list myself, and I’d love any and all recommendations for it.

Update: this list exists now! There’s actually two of them — “Aspiring Artists” for the middle grade and YA books and “Artsy Main Characters” for the adult books. If you’d like to check them out or make any recommendations, you can find them on my profile. Thanks for all the recommendations, everyone! I already have over 50 books between the two lists