Like Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush or And Then There Was Silence by Blind Guardian?

Fellow bi- and multilinguals! I’m curious about your reading habits, so if you’ll please indulge me by answering these questions…

1: which languages are you able to speak and/or read? 2: which language is your preferred for reading? Bonus if you can explain why 3: do you ever read books in a language you know but is not your preferred? Which one(s)? Why/why not?

Another quality of life update! You can now select which edition of a book you are reading, which will update the book info in your library. This is most relevant for changing which book cover shows up in your library, or changing the language edition. We get asked all the time about changing book covers, so I'm happy to report this is finally an option! The edition page will also show you additional data like publisher and page count.

This does require an app update if you are on the iOS/Android app.

We've been working with a few volunteer librarians to combine language editions on Pagebound and are making steady progress "deduping" popular authors. This is a necessary process to make sure we have one forum per book, and also ensures if you read a book in say Spanish, the English version is also marked "finished" and you get credit towards any Quests, Readalongs etc. Deduping will also make Search and navigating the author pages easier.

To change the language/edition of a book, click "View All Languages & Editions" on the book page (next to publish year above the book description). You'll see a list of all available editions, and can swap from that page. Your chosen edition will reflect in your Library.

Combining language editions is a monumental task, so we appreciate your patience as me, Lucy, and our volunteers work through it all!

Another fun update: we brought the "Featured Emoji" to the Discover Lists page!

We're still working on home feed updates and will be back soon with more updates :)

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

PS: if you're curious how deduping works: When language editions are combined, it just means that there is one Book/forum per listing, but the "deduped" editions are still available on the editions page. All reviews and forum posts that were on the deduped book will now show up on the main Book page.

à la the PB review page that prompts you to pick 3 emojis to describe a book, what 3 emojis would you use to describe yourself? I feel like the book emoji is a given so maybe avoid that one (or don't I'm not the emoji police) 📚

Mine would be 🤓📻☕

I'm a street librarian & have got myself in the habit of checking books for strange/foreign objects people have left in books. Most likely used as bookmarks I'm assuming! Some of them have been funny or sad. Some of them have been downright weird. I love finding this stuff cos it's like a snapshot of the life of the person who donated the books, luckily I haven't found anything too personal! What are some of the little treasures you've found in your second hand books? ☺️

I literally got a stamp to put in the books I own even if I may sell it later on. Idk it makes me feel like my own little library 😂😂. Does anyone else do this?

I feel like it would be interesting if used books just had a list of names of past owners in them.

I have stacks I want to get rid of, but they aren't worth selling. Is it common for public libraries to accept donations or what? I'd hate to throw them away. 🥲