jenniferPagebound

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jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

ruiconteur

addition of nonfiction genres to the "add book" form

hi, could we add "literary studies" and "monograph" to the nonfiction genres as well please? I'm adding a book now that discusses tang dynasty poetry and realised that it doesn't fit under any of the genres so far except maybe "history." thank you!

Won't Do ❌

jenniferPagebound commented on a post from the Founder Announcements forum

jenniferPagebound

Wrapups are live on the app! [06/10/2026]

Very excited to share that Wrapups are live on both iOS and Android apps! Please make sure your app is updated to access this new feature!

Head to the Stats tab on your profile and look for the "Generate Wrapup" button. You'll see we have 7 different wrapup views (2 extra for Royalty members) with customization options. You can also change the color scheme for your wrapup!

We hope you love this new feature and are excited to see you share on socials - tag us @pagebound.co :)

For the next few weeks we'll be working on some Roadmap requests and quality of life updates. You can check the roadmap by clicking the link in the footer on web or on the app, clicking the link in the hamburger menu (the three lines next to the logo in the navbar).

If you're enjoying these new updates, we'd be so grateful if you left us a review on the app store. This helps us reach more readers so we can continue to pump out updates! And a huge thank you to our Royalty members who support our work - the stats features have been a large load on our servers, and we've been able to upgrade them thanks to your contributions!

Happy reading, wrapups, & Pride, Jennifer + Lucy 💙💜

PS: If your wrapup data doesn't look correct, you can edit the format and page/minute totals for a read in the same place you edit read dates. To power the pages/minutes per day chart, make sure you've logged pages/minutes/% for each day you read

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jenniferPagebound commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

0wlcyclops

how to import a CSV to pagebound library that is not Storygraph or Goodreads.

listen, I have been struggling to get this to work, but here I go, asking this place for help [even if I am doing it wrong or posting in the wrong place.]

so the main reason why I have not been using this site is because I can't import stuff from Bookdigits , another alternative to Goodreads. I have have no idea how to turn a CSV into a Goodreads like because I have no idea where to download the Goodreads CSV template thing or if there is some kind of converter that can do the heavy lifting for you.

any idea how to do this so I don't have to start from scratch here?

jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

ruiconteur

additional book id option(s) for the book addition form

hi, i noticed that the book id field is currently restricted only to isbn and asin numbers, so i wanted to request that an additional option be created for books that do not have either. i understand that this was likely to prevent media such as fanfiction or webtoons from being added to the database, but this also leaves out quite a number of books, such as older books that were published before isbn numbers were first used, which i noticed some others asking about in the announcement post. similarly, non-traditionally published novels such as webnovels, which make up the vast majority of genre fiction books in east asian publishing industries, do not have isbns or asins, instead using book ids unique to the platform they're published on. there's a rather big audience for these webnovels on pagebound already, so it would be wonderful if we could add and discuss the books we've been reading here too.

therefore, would it be possible to create a separate "book id" option that doesn't have a character limit? (the current isbn and asin fields are limited to either 10 or 13 characters.) this would then be able to accommodate as many different options as possible, such as "n/a" for books without any ids whatsoever. alternatively, two options could be added: one without a character restriction, and one for books with no id. thank you!

Released 🚀

jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

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acidicchaos

Badge Stickers in Merch Store

I'm a little obsessed with some of the Quest badges and I would love to be able to show them off with stickers through the merch store! I don't know the logistics/feasibility of ordering stickers, but I thought it would be cool if there were larger ones for water bottles and laptops, but also maybe a sheet of smaller ones for people who do physical reading journals/planners to track their quest plan/progression.

Approved - Will Do ✅

jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

andreareadsalot

Chat Forum on User’s Profile

I would love to see a place on a user’s profile to leave a comment on their profile. Sometimes I want to ask about their featured books, sometimes I want a place to comment about their profile About Me section blurb, maybe I just want to comment specifically to that user to leave a note of encouragement or wish them well. I would love to be able to interact with individuals deeper 1:1 and there’s not really a place to do that.

Won't Do ❌

jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

aliceeims

Adding editions of books in the same place instead of making them separate books

I read a lot in my native language, Swedish, and so I've started adding the Swedish editions of books. But they show up as completely separate books instead of editions of the English version. So reviews and forum does not match up. It would be nice to be able to link up books with existing editions so people can see what languages etc are added and choose the one they read.

Approved - Will Do ✅

jenniferPagebound commented on a post from the Founder Announcements forum

jenniferPagebound

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New App Version + Product Updates (6/25/2026)

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 💜💙

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jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

acloudofbats

Additional sub-types for the "add book" form

I noticed a couple sub-types missing when adding a book and it would be awesome if we could get them for more accurate cataloguing. c: Short Story for fiction (only noticed Novella and Short Story Collection that's similar) and Picture Book for both fiction and non-fiction (since Comic & Graphic Novel doesn't really apply).

Released 🚀

jenniferPagebound commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

sophe

Logging & stats when reading digital

People who read digital and like to zoom in a lot making a 200 page book into 800 pages how do you guys keep track of the progression here?

Because if I write that the book is 800 pages to get the right % when logging my stats will think I’ve read 800 pages and I don’t want that, since it’s not truly 800 pages.

Bc I think earlier they had a % button or maybe I’m just hallucinating 😀

jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request

ruiconteur

additional book id option(s) for the book addition form

Released 🚀

jenniferPagebound commented on a post from the Founder Announcements forum

jenniferPagebound

Edited

New App Version + Product Updates (6/25/2026)

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 💜💙

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The Lion Women of Tehran

Marjan Kamali

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation. Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming “lion women.” But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls’ high school in Iran, Ellie’s memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives. Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences. Written with Marjan Kamali’s signature “evocative, devastating, and hauntingly beautiful” (Whitney Scharer, author of The Age of Light) prose, The Lion Women of Tehran is a sweeping exploration of how profoundly we are shaped by those we meet when we are young, and the way love and courage transforms our lives.

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Livonia Chow Mein

Abigail Savitch-Lew

In the vein of Happiness Falls and Family Lore, a gripping story of family history and political upheaval centered around a Chinese family-owned restaurant in Brownsville, Brooklyn and its impact on the neighborhood’s Jewish and Black residents over the course of a century. In 1978, two tenements on Livonia Avenue in Brownsville burn to the ground, killing one resident and displacing dozens of others. It remains unclear who set the buildings ablaze, but the survivors are convinced the culprit is Mr. Wong. Who exactly is Mr. Wong, and what allegedly drove him to this extraordinary act of violence, is the question that consumes this novel as it plunges into four generations of Wong family history. First is Koon Lai, an immigrant who runs a Chinese restaurant on Livonia Avenue; second, his son Richard, a man desperate for his own chance at the American Dream; and third, Jason, a poet who seeks his escape in the bohemian counterculture of the 1970s, but finds himself an unwitting participant in Brooklyn’s gentrification. In the 21st century, Jason’s daughter Sadie returns to Brownsville as a journalist, determined to unravel the mystery of what happened decades earlier on the night the buildings blazed. Joining together the present and the past is the community organizer Lina Rodriguez Armstrong, who was also displaced by that fire and who has spent the intervening years fighting for the rights of Brownsville’s residents and organizing a Livonia Avenue community land trust. A stunning debut from a new talent, Livonia Chow Mein contemplates how the American pursuit of freedom relies on a collective amnesia and challenges us to consider what it would take for us to truly live in harmony.

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Livonia Chow Mein

Abigail Savitch-Lew

jenniferPagebound completed their yearly reading goal of 20 books!