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 💜💙

After reading Ace of Spades, I started to wonder… could Pretty Little Liars be considered dark academia?

A few days ago, Goodreads made it impossible for software tools to read their web pages which broke our "Add a book" system. This came out of the blue for us, and we've been working hard to create a new system. The new Add Book form is now available on web only! We will be getting this out on the app ASAP, and I'll make a founder's announcement with more detail then.

This new system is a manual entry, so while it's not quite as convenient as entering a Goodreads URL, it does give you the ability to add books that are not yet on Goodreads :)

Happy to answer any questions!

I recently tried to add an ARC I'm reading to Pagebound as it's not in the catalogue but I got a notification saying that Goodreads has now banned other apps from doing book imports.

So how the fudge niblets am I supposed to track this ARC And not lose my streak? Or should I just read 2 books at the same time? 🤔

(FTR: Obviously it'll take a while to find a new way to add books and this is obviously Goodreads doing so I'm not upset, just confused)

Could we add “An Arcane Study of Stars” by Sydney Shields to this quest?

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

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