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jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

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    Filter for Not Owned Books

    Would it be possible to add a filter in our shelves for books we do not own (to complement the Owned toggle that already exists)? Seeing which books I own is helpful in terms of prioritizing a physical TBR, but I would love to be able to filter for Not Owned books to get ahead of which books I should put holds on at the library.

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

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    Bookshelf Grid View

    Hi there! Would it be possible to implement a grid view when looking at the shelves in our library? Even if it’s something like being able to toggle from list view to grid view, I think it would be awesome!

    There are so many beautiful covers out there and I would love if we could organize our shelves to show us a tidy little grid that focuses on cover art. :)

    Thank you for your time! ā™”

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

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    More Filters in Library

    Would it be possible to filter "Interested" by review/rating?

    I have so many in my library I don't know where to start. Filtering by rating or length of book would really help

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Two ā€œCan I Do This On Pageboundā€ Questions

    I’ve poked around in the FAQ and done some PB Club searches and haven’t found any answers so I’m just going to ask both the questions that have been bothering me here!

    1. I have a couple of books that I’m reading whose covers still show as ā€œCover Unavailableā€ placeholders when the covers (and the books themselves!) have very much been released. Is there any way to update this?

    2. Is there any way to customize the order of a list? For example, I’m putting together a curated list that I’d specifically like to present in publication order. Is there any way to do this without specifically adding the book in publication order? And if I want to add another book later and retain publication order, do I need to delete everything off the list and re-add the books in the correct order again, or is there a way to insert a book into the middle of a list?

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Quick feed update!

    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)

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

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    Search Other People's Shelves

    Similar to the feature request to be able to search our own shelves, I would also like to be able to search other people's shelves as well. For some very specific context, whenever I see a post asking for recommendations, I like to go to that users profile and do a quick skim through their Finished shelf with an eye out for any books that I also have marked as Finished; if I see that they haven't read the book I want to suggest, then I can feel confident recommending the book knowing that it's a fresh suggestion. However, if they have read hundreds and hundreds of books then it's tedious and I'll just give up and throw my recommendation into the world regardless.

    I'm not sure if this feature would fall under the existing request to search our own shelves, so please reject as duplicate if it's already going to be included!

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

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    Search Within Library Sections (TBR, Finished, Interested etc.)

    I wish we could be able to search within our library sections such as TBR. I have over 1000 books on my TBR for example so it's hard to remember which I have added and which I have yet to the list.

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  • Post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Quick feed update!

    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)

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

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    Batch edit books on Web Desktop

    On desktop, select multiple books from a status or custom shelf in your library to batch-edit

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Updating book covers?

    Hi all! Does anyone know if there is a way to update book covers? I'm reading a book with a placeholder cover instead of the actual cover and I'm trying to figure out a way to update it. Maybe a request has to be sent via the support link for something like that? If anyone knows, please help a fellow boundling out (the blank one is driving me crazy šŸ˜…)

    TIA!! šŸ¤—

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

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    Share Link to Review on Web

    would it be possible to implement a share option for reviews on web from the [...] drop down? share is currently an option on posts and comments on web and on posts, comments and reviews in the app. it would appear at the present time the only way to get a review link is to open it in it's own page and grab the link from the address bar. i would appreciate a fewer clicks option of being able to grab a share link from the [...]!

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

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    Search, Filter & Scroll for Large Custom Shelf Lists

    Love the app guys. Currently I'm use custom shelves to track my romance book tropes & micro-tropes. Over time, the list has grown into 150+ private custom shelf which are trope-based shelves, and managing them has started to feel difficult as the list gets longer.

    At the moment I'm facing a bit of difficulty:

    1. The shelf list is very long and requires a lot of scrolling.
    2. There’s no scrollbar limited to the list items/shelf section/custom shelf section within the library.
    3. There’s no way to search within custom shelves or lists items within the library
    4. There are no sorting or filtering options within custom shelves or lists within the library

    I wanted to suggest a few improvements that could make this much easier:

    1. A scrollable shelf panel instead of full-page scrolling, meaning a scrollbar for the custom shelf panel within the library, so we don't have to scroll so much.
    2. A search bar to quickly find custom shelves or list items within the library.
    3. Filtering options for private shelves/custom shelves or list items within the library
    4. Sorting options/Filtering options for private shelves/custom shelves or list items within the library, such as name (A–Z / Z–A), date added, or book count, ascending, descending.

    Would you guys please consider expanding the existing custom shelf system to support searching, filtering, and sorting? This approach would greatly improve trope tracking/custom shelf tracking for readers who use shelves heavily.

    Thanks so much for all the work you put into Pagebound and for being open to user feedback!

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

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    Create New Shelf While Setting Status

    Hi!

    I was wondering if there was a way we could create a new shelf as we’re sorting books we’re looking to read.

    For example. I’m looking through lists and I found a book I like. I go to update my status as interested and then I see all my shelves that are already created. BUT at this point in the process I’d like the option to create a NEW shelf called ā€œBooks From Cool Listā€ because that’s not currently a shelf in my shelves.

    But I don’t see a way to do this (on the app) and so I’d have to go out of the book, go to my library, create the shelf, and then go back and find the book I was looking at from the cool list.

    So could there be a way to create the new shelf as I’m already in the process of setting my status? Like at the bottom of the shelves, an option that reads ā€œcreate new shelfā€

    I hope this makes sense 🫣. Thank you!

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

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    Add library option

    Really tiny request and not sure fully if it would work so if it’s a no that’s 1000% okay!

    On the picking format options is there a way to incorporate library books? I know some libraries have physical, audio and ebooks own so I don’t know if this would go along and maybe it’s opening a can of worms of minute detail that doesn’t need to be opened!

    However just curious if there was also an option to included a library option, I’d like to track which books I’m getting from there which I’m doing with my shelves atm and it is working as a good method anyway. As said unsure if it would open a can of worms as then maybe it would also need to have a ā€œOwn by Meā€, ā€œBorrowed of a Friendā€ and then a ā€œLibrary Lendā€ or if it can just be a library option along side the physical/digital/audio/tandem?

    Unsure though if having it next to the current options it would affect how you pull the stat data but just a minor request to try incorporate the library more! šŸ«¶šŸ»šŸ«¶šŸ»

    Thankyou for all the amazing work already done!

    Approved - Will Do āœ…
  • jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

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    Change read dates + format details when starting + finishing a book

    Quality of life update: when you move a book to "reading", "re-reading", "finished", "dnf", you'll see options to update the start date, finish date, tracking mode, format, and length right in the status update modal.

    If the book is in "reading" or "re-reading", you'll see an option to edit these details in the status update modal

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

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    Reading Wrapup added analytics

    This might be very niche for me, but I like to read my books in multiple formats as I’m reading. I usually start with the physical book (nothing beats the smell of a book!) but I do that before work. I might swap to the audiobook while I’m working so I can stay absorbed in the story and not hate the soul crushing state of late stage capitalism more for keeping me from my true love (reading). Then I might go back to the regular book after work, or if it’s a big fantasy I might swap to the ebook as well because holding it is awkward and I don’t want to crack the spine. Because of this longwinded story, I track my reading here based on percentage complete, and I don’t really know how many pages I read or minutes I listen to books. But I’d love to see what that equals out to. I figured since I can’t log these swaps (and idk how that could be done) seeing the equivalent of total pages/minutes read at the monthly/annual wrap ups would be really cool!

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a post from the Founder Announcements forum

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  • New App Version + Quality of Life updates (7/16/2026)

    Hi all! New app version (1.1.93) is now available on both iOS and Android. This includes mostly quality of life updates, some small feature enhancements, and bug fixes - web was also updated! Here's a quick rundown of what changed:

    Search Improvements: When you search on the app, you can navigate back to your search results. On web, searching in "Browse Lists" and "Browse Quests" also saves your search results.

    Search by Emoji: This beloved feature is now available on the app! You can find a link in Search. This got a design upgrade on web as well - you can now search specifically for books, lists, or quests by Emoji and see the total results for each category.

    Updated Emojis: The emoji list was updated on app to include newer emojis

    Additional badge slots for Royalty: Royalty can now display up to 12 badges on their profiles (warning: if the app is not updated yet and you display more than 6, the badges will run off the screen!) EDIT: was made aware the badges will run off the screen when viewing someone else's profile. They will look correct when viewing your own. I'm sorry, silly bug from me! Will put up an "emergency" update in next few days.

    New ways to add a book: In a shocking turn of events, we are able to offer the Add Missing Book via Goodreads Link feature again. You now have 3 options when adding a new book to the Pagebound database: Goodreads link, ISBN/ASIN manual form, non-ISBN manual form

    Block List in Settings: under Account & Settings, you can see all the users you've blocked and manage your block list.

    Update Reading Progress remembers your update method: that's a mouthful, but basically if you update your reading progress using %, you'll be defaulted to % the next time you log progress (or pages or minutes, whatever tracking method you choose)

    Confirmation popup when clicking I'm Finished: In the progress update modal, there's a confirmation step before finishing the book when you click I'm Finished (for everyone who was accidentally clicking that and messing up their reads!)

    What's next on the roadmap? We're working on making editing your reading data more accessible and intuitive (think: updating your start/finish date when you click the "Reading" and "Finished" statuses, editing format and length in the reading status modal) After that, we have major projects related to Quests (Quest dashboards šŸ‘€) and a huge Library revamp (I'm calling this "Library V2")

    Thank you everyone for keeping this community thriving! We'll be back in a few weeks with the next update.

    Happy reading, Jennifer + Lucy

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  • Post from the Founder Announcements forum

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  • New App Version + Quality of Life updates (7/16/2026)

    Hi all! New app version (1.1.93) is now available on both iOS and Android. This includes mostly quality of life updates, some small feature enhancements, and bug fixes - web was also updated! Here's a quick rundown of what changed:

    Search Improvements: When you search on the app, you can navigate back to your search results. On web, searching in "Browse Lists" and "Browse Quests" also saves your search results.

    Search by Emoji: This beloved feature is now available on the app! You can find a link in Search. This got a design upgrade on web as well - you can now search specifically for books, lists, or quests by Emoji and see the total results for each category.

    Updated Emojis: The emoji list was updated on app to include newer emojis

    Additional badge slots for Royalty: Royalty can now display up to 12 badges on their profiles (warning: if the app is not updated yet and you display more than 6, the badges will run off the screen!) EDIT: was made aware the badges will run off the screen when viewing someone else's profile. They will look correct when viewing your own. I'm sorry, silly bug from me! Will put up an "emergency" update in next few days.

    New ways to add a book: In a shocking turn of events, we are able to offer the Add Missing Book via Goodreads Link feature again. You now have 3 options when adding a new book to the Pagebound database: Goodreads link, ISBN/ASIN manual form, non-ISBN manual form

    Block List in Settings: under Account & Settings, you can see all the users you've blocked and manage your block list.

    Update Reading Progress remembers your update method: that's a mouthful, but basically if you update your reading progress using %, you'll be defaulted to % the next time you log progress (or pages or minutes, whatever tracking method you choose)

    Confirmation popup when clicking I'm Finished: In the progress update modal, there's a confirmation step before finishing the book when you click I'm Finished (for everyone who was accidentally clicking that and messing up their reads!)

    What's next on the roadmap? We're working on making editing your reading data more accessible and intuitive (think: updating your start/finish date when you click the "Reading" and "Finished" statuses, editing format and length in the reading status modal) After that, we have major projects related to Quests (Quest dashboards šŸ‘€) and a huge Library revamp (I'm calling this "Library V2")

    Thank you everyone for keeping this community thriving! We'll be back in a few weeks with the next update.

    Happy reading, Jennifer + Lucy

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • PB community, weigh in! Thoughts on quarter star ratings?

    Lucy and I were going through the Roadmap today (for those that don't know, we have a public roadmap to show what we're working on - you can find it in the "more" menu on the app in the top left of the navbar, or linked in the footer on web) and realized we've had a few requests for quarter star ratings. We said we'd let the community weigh in and make a decision, but the feedback thus far has been split. So, we're opening up the convo now!

    Should Pagebound have .25 star ratings?

    Pros: You can get granular with your ratings, you decide if you want to use the quarter star system or not (if you don't like them, you can continue to use half stars), many folks have personal rating systems that involve quarter stars

    Cons: Since we have sub-ratings on PB, there is additional cognitive load to rating things like plot and quality with quarter stars (we think only having quarter stars for overall rating would be confusing and look like a bug). It could potentially discourage people from adding sub ratings if they feel paralyzed by the granularity

    Very curious to hear what you all think!

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  • jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

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    Searching by emoji on app

    I really enjoy the search by emoji function on the website, and I’d love to be able to do the same on the app.

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