jenniferPagebound
co-founder of Pagebound đ€
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jenniferPagebound commented on a post from the Founder Announcements forum
Hi everyone, we've just released a big app update with many quality of life improvements, bug fixes, and some new features. These are all available on web as well. Please make sure your apps are updated to the latest version, 1.1.1, to see these changes! As a reminder, you can check out what we're working on and what's coming up next via the public roadmap (in the footer on web, in the more menu on the app)
Here's a list of updates:
- New Main Quest badge tiers, now viewable on the app
- ability to pin comments to your own posts, lists, and activity
- improved search on app: UI enhancements to make searching for things that are not books easier, removed the auto-populated most searched books from the search widget
- ability to track your progress in Time for audiobooks (HH:MM)
- progress bar / breakdown by status added to Plan
- estimated page count added to book page
- you can enlarge a book cover on the book screen by tapping the book cover
- rereading button (when you go to track a reread, the button says re-reading instead of reading)
- sort reviews by star rating
- filter options on Book Journey
- new search, filter, and sort options on Browse All Lists and Browse All Quests screens
- see more info about your followers and users you follow in the following/followers modals
- changed the button on the home feed "currently reading" books from "post in forum" to "go to forum" for easier access to the forum + encouraging folks to check existing posts!
We're working on monthly wrapups, reading streaks, and some prep for more stats next! We will also be making some additional enhancements to Quests (like: a book recommendations section similar to the Community Recs on book pages, stats for how many users earned each badge tier, and a feed tab like the new feed tab on book pages)
Thanks everyone and happy reading, Jennifer + Lucy
154Post from the Founder Announcements forum
Hi everyone, we've just released a big app update with many quality of life improvements, bug fixes, and some new features. These are all available on web as well. Please make sure your apps are updated to the latest version, 1.1.1, to see these changes! As a reminder, you can check out what we're working on and what's coming up next via the public roadmap (in the footer on web, in the more menu on the app)
Here's a list of updates:
- New Main Quest badge tiers, now viewable on the app
- ability to pin comments to your own posts, lists, and activity
- improved search on app: UI enhancements to make searching for things that are not books easier, removed the auto-populated most searched books from the search widget
- ability to track your progress in Time for audiobooks (HH:MM)
- progress bar / breakdown by status added to Plan
- estimated page count added to book page
- you can enlarge a book cover on the book screen by tapping the book cover
- rereading button (when you go to track a reread, the button says re-reading instead of reading)
- sort reviews by star rating
- filter options on Book Journey
- new search, filter, and sort options on Browse All Lists and Browse All Quests screens
- see more info about your followers and users you follow in the following/followers modals
- changed the button on the home feed "currently reading" books from "post in forum" to "go to forum" for easier access to the forum + encouraging folks to check existing posts!
We're working on monthly wrapups, reading streaks, and some prep for more stats next! We will also be making some additional enhancements to Quests (like: a book recommendations section similar to the Community Recs on book pages, stats for how many users earned each badge tier, and a feed tab like the new feed tab on book pages)
Thanks everyone and happy reading, Jennifer + Lucy
154jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
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Weekly/Monthly Reading Reports
Would love to see a weekly or monthly stats report that we could share! Like the 2025 recap we got. I like posting those types of things on my Instagram story, so being able to save it as a graphic or something would be great
jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
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Look at Forum option from the Main Page
From your home page, you can immediately add a post to a forum, but going into the forums to search for posts and see if somebody else has already posted something similar has a longer path (click on the book > go to the forum section > then search your percentage / key words). I feel like this can contribute to duplicate posts on big forums, as people might not remember to check the forums before hitting the post in forum button. Would a button / option to directly open the forum page of a book from your home page be a viable option? Alternatively, would it be viable to transform the post in forum button into a "look at forum" button, and then have the post option there?
jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
14Giveaway notifications
Really excited about the giveaways, and I'd love if there could be some notifications for when they drop. Maybe something in feed to announce new additions like we get for new quests (though if/when there are like dozens dropping back to back in a day that could get overwhelming), and then if a book is already in your library get an additional actual bell notification?
jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
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Show userâs created lists on their profile
I recently had a convo in the club where a user was asking for recs on a particular type of book. I checked the lists in their profile (didnât see any they had made), then suggested that they make a list and get recs there. They said they already had.
While I could find the list in their activity, I didnât see it on their profile. However, I do see my own lists on my profile.
Iâm not totally sure if this is a bug or not. If so, Iâm in the app. If not, Iâd love to see lists users create in the lists tab of their profile.
jenniferPagebound started reading...
Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)
Claire North
2jenniferPagebound finished a book
Black Cake
Charmaine Wilkerson
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jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
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Page Number Request
Only if this is feasible!
I like planning my reads sometimes based on book size! So if I check out reviews and decide I want to read Iâll usually check the page count to see where it fits in! Also if I find one and itâs not too daunting sometimes this helps me out a slump!
jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
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Forum or Status Update percentage for Audiobooks
hi hello! curious if it would be possible to have our status or forum posts to be logged by hour/time for audiobook. similar for how we can log the page # for percentage, instead we could use timestamp (HH:HH) to get the percentage. đ
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jenniferPagebound started reading...
American Rapture
C.J. Leede
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American Rapture
C.J. Leede
13jenniferPagebound commented on MilaOnMain's review of The Bright Years
A devastating and luminous portrait of how we carry (and survive) the people we love.
I finished this book three days ago and Iâm still thinking about it. Actually, thatâs not quite right. I canât stop thinking about it.
This is the kind of novel that sneaks up on you. It opens quietly with a small boy coloring under a kitchen table, and then Sarah Damoff pulls you through decades of one familyâs life. Their fierce love, their devastating mistakes, their attempts to outrun their own histories. And somewhere around the middle you realize youâre completely wrecked in the best possible way.
This is a multigenerational family saga that refuses to be sentimental about any of it. Damoff writes about addiction, grief, and generational trauma with unflinching honesty, but she never makes it feel hopeless. Thereâs something deeply humanizing in how she shows us people trying (and sometimes failing) to be better than their worst impulses.
The prose is deceptively simple but lands with precision. Damoff has a gift for the small details. The paint flecks on someoneâs hands, a specific flavor of ice cream, the way grief makes you doubt your own memories.
I was captivated by how it balances darkness with such tenderness. Yes, terrible things happen. But thereâs also art and Blue Bell and grandmothers who know exactly when to make brisket. Thereâs the stubborn persistence of love even when it seems impossibly stupid to keep loving. Thereâs the question of whether we can ever escape where we come from or if the trying itself is what defines us.
This is a book about what we inherit from our parents - the good, the unbearable, and everything in between. About second chances that come too late and the ones that somehow arrive just in time. About the different timelines people need for forgiveness, and whether redemption is something you earn or something thatâs given.
Fair warning: this isnât a light read. Damoff doesnât flinch from the hard stuff. But if youâre willing to sit with the weight of it, youâll find something profound about resilience, about the mathematics of harm and healing, about how one life -messy, imperfect, ordinary- can contain both everything and nothing.
I cried. A lot.
15jenniferPagebound wrote a review...
Sometimes a book finds you at the exact right moment in life and changes your trajectory. The Bright Years found me cynical and weary, and left me hope-filled and in awe of life's beauty.
Through addiction, grief, impossible decisions and betrayals, the characters lose and rediscover both themselves and each other again and again. The story reminds us how life can feel impossibly short and unbearably long all at once; that the threat of loss does not negate the joy of love gained, and the only real defeat is letting pain rather than love lead us.
So many forms of love are explored: parent-child, marital, friendship, neighborly. In the face of seemingly insurmountable pain the characters choose each other despite, and in doing so remind us that no one has a monopoly on grief. We are all fighting our internal battles; extending grace and finding courage to stay soft is not only an act of defiance, but the only way to stay truly alive.
I have never cried as much reading as I did finishing the last 100 pages. The Bright Years has a very special place in my heart and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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jenniferPagebound finished a book
The Bright Years
Sarah Damoff
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