Will there eventually be a yearly option for Pagebound royalty 👑? (At an even slightly reduced rate 🤞)

I can't currently afford to do the $10 a month, but if there were a yearly option, then I could have someone prepay as a say a birthday gift?

Just an idea💡 and hope.

Hi everyone, we've been quietly releasing new features and quality of life updates over the past month on all platforms, please make sure your app is updated to see the latest improvements!

One of the biggest updates is moderation improvement. We have new tools for both our moderators (who run the PageboundGuide account) and for the community:

• You can now report a post, review, or comment for spoilers
• You can send a post or comment to PBGuide for Content Guideline violations
• Of course, you can still flag a post, comment, review, or user profile for hate speech, harassment, self-promo, etc

PageboundGuides will review all reported content and either:

• add a spoiler tag to posts & reviews
• flag comments with spoilers
• approve flags for posts/reviews/comments/profiles that violate the Terms & Conditions (hate speech etc)
• archive Posts that do not meet the Posting & Content Guidelines

What is archiving? When a post does not meet the Content Guidelines (link here, quick version under Account & Settings -> Posting Guidelines in the app) PBGuide can archive the post from the book forum. The post is hidden from the default forum view but stays on your profile and book journey. You can include archived posts in your forum view by changing the forum filter from "All Posts" to "Include archived posts"

The PBGuides have been working hard behind the scenes to clean up very busy forums (especially the readalong forums). We know this has been a point of frustration for many, and giving everyone the ability to send these posts to PBGuide for review is just one of many ways we will be improving forum quality over the coming months.

Other New Features & Improvements

• Feed filters on your Main Feed and Following feed
• Message on your Yearly Challenge letting you know if you are ahead or behind on your goal
• Streaks! & editing past reading progress (click the streak widget to edit and view historical progress)
• Navigation changes on app: Profile is it's own tab where More menu used to be. The More menu is now on the top left next to the Pagebound logo
• Block & Report users from the profile page
• Reading progress bar added to the Book Page for currently reading books

Right now we are working on a huge, exciting project: Format tracking, stats, and monthly wrapups. Goal is to have this out in the next month!

You can always check the Roadmap to see what we're working on. If you want to support the continued development of Pagebound and add feature requests to the roadmap, please consider joining Pagebound Royalty (crown icon in the navbar)! Our Royalty members make it possible for us to provide a high quality, ad-free experience for all 🙏

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

Hi everyone, we've been quietly releasing new features and quality of life updates over the past month on all platforms, please make sure your app is updated to see the latest improvements!

One of the biggest updates is moderation improvement. We have new tools for both our moderators (who run the PageboundGuide account) and for the community:

• You can now report a post, review, or comment for spoilers
• You can send a post or comment to PBGuide for Content Guideline violations
• Of course, you can still flag a post, comment, review, or user profile for hate speech, harassment, self-promo, etc

PageboundGuides will review all reported content and either:

• add a spoiler tag to posts & reviews
• flag comments with spoilers
• approve flags for posts/reviews/comments/profiles that violate the Terms & Conditions (hate speech etc)
• archive Posts that do not meet the Posting & Content Guidelines

What is archiving? When a post does not meet the Content Guidelines (link here, quick version under Account & Settings -> Posting Guidelines in the app) PBGuide can archive the post from the book forum. The post is hidden from the default forum view but stays on your profile and book journey. You can include archived posts in your forum view by changing the forum filter from "All Posts" to "Include archived posts"

The PBGuides have been working hard behind the scenes to clean up very busy forums (especially the readalong forums). We know this has been a point of frustration for many, and giving everyone the ability to send these posts to PBGuide for review is just one of many ways we will be improving forum quality over the coming months.

Other New Features & Improvements

• Feed filters on your Main Feed and Following feed
• Message on your Yearly Challenge letting you know if you are ahead or behind on your goal
• Streaks! & editing past reading progress (click the streak widget to edit and view historical progress)
• Navigation changes on app: Profile is it's own tab where More menu used to be. The More menu is now on the top left next to the Pagebound logo
• Block & Report users from the profile page
• Reading progress bar added to the Book Page for currently reading books

Right now we are working on a huge, exciting project: Format tracking, stats, and monthly wrapups. Goal is to have this out in the next month!

You can always check the Roadmap to see what we're working on. If you want to support the continued development of Pagebound and add feature requests to the roadmap, please consider joining Pagebound Royalty (crown icon in the navbar)! Our Royalty members make it possible for us to provide a high quality, ad-free experience for all 🙏

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

Figured it would benefit all to include a little primer on the Quest, how it was curated, and what I hoped to accomplish here.

I am a huge history lover, specifically European history, and saw so many interesting Medieval historical fiction titles published in the past two years. There seems to be a resurgence of Medieval motifs in pop culture, from the latest runway shows (check out Louis Vuitton), to Chappell Roan's Joan of Arc inspired fashion, to publishing's newfound affinity for knights, princesses, and Arthurian legend.

The Medieval period is so rich with iconography and lore; it is the inspiration for many fantasy novels, period romances, even modern festivals and entertainment franchises (the title of this quest is a cheeky reference to Medieval Times, the dinner & tournament experience in the US link here ) In curating the books for this Quest, I wanted to capture the wonder of this time period that lives in our collective imagination -- knights, cold stone castles, complex politics, epic legends and the undercurrent of magic.

While doing research, I learned the Medieval period is quite difficult to define from an academic historical perspective. We can very broadly think of it as the period between Antiquity and the Renaissance (or, Early Modern Period), but when each culture entered the Early Modern period can differ by over a hundred years. Culture trickles down slowly, so while many people in the upper echelons of society (nobility, scholars, artists) felt the world around them changing during these transitional periods, the vast majority of society was still living in a Medieval world. As a matter of scholarship, these period distinctions matter a great deal, and there's many interesting discussion to be had on what exactly defines the Medieval period--and for whom.

In addition to capturing the Medieval of our collective imagination in the book selection, I also wanted to ensure the Quest was not tedious and did not feel like homework. I wanted someone to be excited to earn a high level badge, which would require 15+ book finished. There are many historical fictions in this theme that are dense, extremely long, and quite a slog to get through. I included a very select few of those (since it frankly seemed sacrilegious not to include certain authors and series!) but opted for accessibility and entertainment where possible, even if it meant taking creative liberties with the academic definition of Medieval.

Genre-wise, I wanted to stay in the historical fiction category with only slight deviations (examples: retellings of iconic Medieval legends, some horror titles). I intentionally did not include rom-coms and high fantasy novels inspired by Medieval history (such as Game of Thrones).

There has been some discussion in this forum about the accuracy of this list - in particular Hamnet, The Other Boleyn Girl, Wolf Hall, and Year of Wonders have been identified as English Early Modern and not Medieval. I took it to a community vote to see if we should keep or remove these titles; the majority wanted them to stay, so I adjusted the Quest description and made this post for folks to reference in the future when having these discussions. I will be staying out of future discussions about time periods and accuracy from here on out, but here's the reasoning behind the inclusion of these titles:

Hamnet: set in 1580-1590's ish. Centers Shakespeare's family's life in rural England. Cambridge identifies Shakespeare's world as "largely Medieval" (source), and having read the book I felt it was an accessible look into rural country life during this time - not something we see often in this historical genre, which tends to highlight nobility.

Wolf Hall and The Other Boleyn Girl: set in early 1500's (1520-1530ish). These titles are wildly popular, won literary awards, and capture political intrigue without being overly dense. Another case of the world being largely Medieval, though the official starting point of the English Early Modern period had started 40-50 years prior.

Year of Wonders: set in 1666. This is the most egregious example of creative liberty with the time periods. I wanted to include a story about the Black Death, but could not find an accessible title. This is about a later wave of the plague in 1666.

I hope this shed more light on the intent and thought behind the Quest curation, and I hope everyone (from staunchly academic to historically curious) is able to discover some books to scratch the Medieval itch!

I’ve just seen this quest and I was surprised to see such titles as Wolf Hall, The Other Boleyn Girl, and Hamnet, which are Tudor-era novels, not medieval. Perhaps this may be seen as pedantic but I just wanted to point out that they belong to completely different eras and these three in particular belong to the Early Modern Era, which marks the end of medievalism in England.

I don’t know if you can remove books from quests, as I don’t think you can, but I thought I’d say because they’re very much not from that era, if that’s what people are looking for. These would be for fiction belonging to the Tudors or Early Modern specifically.

When duplicates are combined, does that mean all the data (forum posts and reviews, recommendations etc) associated with the separate versions merge, or does one copy of the book kind of take over and overwrite the other versions? Am I totally overthinking which edition of something to say I'm reading, lol?