Post from the Founder Announcements forum
The next major app release (1.2.0) is now available on iOS and Android - this one comes with a ton of updates, so make sure your apps are updated to see the latest! Web users, the majority of these updates are already on web (with a few exceptions, addressed below):
Midnight Theme (aka dark mode): very excited to share our version of dark mode! You can choose your theme in Account & Settings -> Preferences. The Midnight theme incorporates accessibility principals (high contrast, sparse use of bright color, no pure blacks/pure whites) while maintaining Pagebound's unique visual identity. We know this is highly anticipated on web as well - we're working on it! Midnight will be available on web hopefully this fall, latest this winter.
Notifications Upgrade: Notifications are split into categories so you can reference what is most important to you. You can also sort/filter your notifications, and mark them read/unread one by one by clicking the blue dot (if the dot is gray, click it to mark the notification as unread).
Browse your library when adding books: When adding a book to a list, your plan, or a shelf, you now have the option to search from "All Books" or "My Books". Tapping "My Books" lets you browse your own library, and filter by status/shelf. This is helpful if you want to browse your tbr while adding books to your plan, for example.
Library Improvements: You can now search, sort, and filter your library with additional sort/filter options (such as average rating and owned/not owned) and view your library books in list view or book cover grid view
Improved Book Status Modal: The book status modal (ie the popup where you change a book's status and add to shelves) got a major quality of life update: you can edit read dates, format, and page length in the modal when a book is in "reading" or when you move a book to "finished", you can create a new shelf in the modal, and you can search your shelves
New Preferences & Account Management options: A new feed preference was added (toggle on/off seeing posts from people you follow when the book is not in your library) as well as library management tools (library export & mass editing/deleting library options)
Discover Quests & Discover Lists upgrade: Discover Quests got new categories and will show new quests in each category on every site/app visit. The Quest card and List card shown on discover got upgrades to show more relevant info & make them more browsable
Additional tiny upgrades: Pull down to refresh your profile, browsing past plans shows in descending month order, plan performance enhancements so loading and editing is snappier, UI cleanup, and various bug fixes.
Community Updates We announced the Fall Readalong book picks last week - if you missed the announcement, head to the Seasonal Readalong page to see the picks! The Fall Readalong starts September 1st.
We also have partnered with Simon Maverick to bring a Dark Romance limited time quest - we've gotten so many requests for a Dark Romance quest, so we're very excited to have this out!
This was a long one, thank you if you made it this far š Happy reading! Jennifer + Lucy
Post from the Pagebound Club forum
Quick semi announcement that the new app version was released on Android! This includes Midnight mode (ie dark mode) and a bunch of other quality of life improvements.
Hopefully we can get Apple out ASAP but we've been waiting over a week on their review, it's been a bit of a battle! But we didn't want to keep Android waiting while Apple is stuck.
jenniferPagebound commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hi everyone, we're considering making quite a big change to Pagebound and want to get the community's opinion - please leave your feedback here!
We have debated for a long while the merits of upvotes/downvotes vs a pure "like" system. We deeply believe in community moderation and community curation, and felt that an upvote/downvote system would provide the tooling for such community moderation.
In practice, we've also seen a lot of downsides with this system. While there's no guidance for how to use downvotes, many people use it as a "disagree" button which can make people with unpopular opinions feel unwelcome to share their opinion (for example, if you share that you dislike a beloved character, you may receive downvotes).
Moving to a "likes" only system would hopefully foster an environment where opinions are discussed rather than silently judged, and people are less anxious to engage in the forums.
In the past there have been some very strong opinions both for and against downvotes - let us know what you think below
Post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hi everyone, we're considering making quite a big change to Pagebound and want to get the community's opinion - please leave your feedback here!
We have debated for a long while the merits of upvotes/downvotes vs a pure "like" system. We deeply believe in community moderation and community curation, and felt that an upvote/downvote system would provide the tooling for such community moderation.
In practice, we've also seen a lot of downsides with this system. While there's no guidance for how to use downvotes, many people use it as a "disagree" button which can make people with unpopular opinions feel unwelcome to share their opinion (for example, if you share that you dislike a beloved character, you may receive downvotes).
Moving to a "likes" only system would hopefully foster an environment where opinions are discussed rather than silently judged, and people are less anxious to engage in the forums.
In the past there have been some very strong opinions both for and against downvotes - let us know what you think below
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jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
As far as I can tell, the edits in the plan are limited to adding and deleting books from a particular month. In order to move a book to a different month, you have to delete it from the month where it exists, search for it again and add it to the new month. It's clunky and frustrating, which disincentivizes using the feature as a fluid compliment to the TBR.
if a 'drag and drop' is problematic on the back end, perhaps a menu item can be added so that 'Move' is an option when editing the month? I believe this would also open up the other feature I wrote about to include 'plan' as an option when saving books to shelves (if an 'add to plan' button defaulted to the current month, rearranging it wouldn't be an issue).
jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
This is a request stemming from the accessibility club discussion post. The main request is for the webpage to include a dark mode/high-contrast mode option for accessibility. But if that takes a lot of time, could users get better compatibility with dark mode/high-contrast browser add-ons until an official dark mode/high-contrast mode is created?
Users shared that browser dark mode/night mode add-ons did not work well with Pagebound's website. Certain images do not change into a dark mode alternative. For example, the pastel-gradient wavy design that fills the top-right half of the Feed webpage and the fuzzy colour image behind the "Discover", "Books" button, "People" button, "Quests" button, and "Lists" Button on the Discover webpage. I've attached a screenshot below of the main feed webpage in the default dark mode settings to show the compatibility issues. This is on Google Chrome with the Dark Reader extension.

Many users with accessibility needs use the webpage on their phone's browser at the moment, so improving the website's compatibility with add-ons will help users even if they don't use dark mode. Some of the add-ons used include dark mode, GIF stoppers/pausers, and bionic readers. I would also like to add that dark mode doesn't necessarily mean a black background with white text, but rather focuses on contrast and, overall, a muted colour palette. Obviously, a dark mode will not help all disability needs, but the choice will be greatly appreciated.
šExample of a Website with a Migraine Mode The toggle button is on the top banner next to the search area on the website and can be accessed by clicking the top right corner and scrolling to the bottom on a phone browser.
Thank you!
Post from the Pagebound Club forum
Update! We got mixed feedback about the new feed changes (removing spoiler posts & comments from people you follow if that book is not in your library), so this is now a setting in your preferences that you can turn on and off. The default shows all activity from people you follow, and if you want the more customized feed you can toggle this setting off under Settings -> Preferences (you can only find this setting on web right now, but your feed setting will apply to both web and app feeds. The toggle will be in the next app release).
Some people really love the change and feel their feed is less overwhelming and more tailored to them, while others felt they missed out on what their friends were discussing and enjoy the discoverability aspect of seeing new-to-you book posts in their feed. Hopefully this update addresses everyone's needs!
jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
Hey guys. Thanks for your time in considering this. I tried to see if this had been requested already and while there was something similar I couldnāt see exactly this.
Just wondering if we could populate our plans from our TBR? Like along with āadd bookā could that have the option of bringing up our TBR so we can add directly from there?
Thanks :)
jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
Hi! I searched and didn't see this, but I apologize if this has already been requested. I definitely agree with a minimum number of books to start a list, but I was wondering if it would be feasible at some point to be able to add more than the initial 5 books to a list before publishing it/making it live and viewable by others.
Typically when I make a list, I have more than 5 books in mind, and (this may be a me problem) while I love getting suggestions of books to add, to my anxious brain, it sometimes feels like a race against the clock to add the books I had in mind to the live list before folks comment suggesting the same ones.
jenniferPagebound commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I just wanted to say this new update that sorts your notifications by unread at the top is a LIFESAVER for this ADHD girlie!! šš I didnāt know I needed this quality of life perk but Iām so glad itās here. No more scrolling through a bunch of notifs anymore to find the ones I forgot. Anyone else loving this feature?
Jennifer and Lucy you are amazing and we appreciate you! šš
jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
iām not sure if this has been brought up before, i searched but didnāt see anything! iām sorry if iām repeating anything!
i was wondering if it could be possible to sort notifications by replies, likes, and follows - and mentions, once those are implemented? sort of like how twitter and similar platforms have done it, all under the same tab but with the option to sort.. sometimes i miss replies when a post gets a lot of likes! i completely understand if thatās not doable!
jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
It would be amazing to be able to mark individual notifications as read or unread, rather than all at once! When getting lots of new notifications e.g. due to a level-up, I would love to be able to clear all those without losing the ones that I want to come back to, e.g. comments in book forums. Or sometimes, I open a notification, realise this will require some brain power to reply to adequately but am afraid of "losing" it among other notifications. This could be done, e.g., by double tapping or holding down on app, having a blue dot as a toggle, or a three-dot menu on each notifications, whichever is easiest in the backend. I hope this is clear and thanks in advance for considering it! :)
jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
Again, I want to acknowledge that Iām not sure how feasible this request is from a development standpoint. I also tried looking through the existing feature requests, but if this has already been suggested, I apologize for the duplicate.
Iād love the ability to sort comment notifications from oldest to newest.
When I come back after being away for a while, I often have a large backlog of notifications. Having the option to view comment notifications chronologically would make it much easier to work through conversations in the order they happened instead of trying to piece discussions together from the newest notifications backward.
Right now, I usually wait until I have enough time to scroll all the way back to the oldest comment notification and work my way forward. The problem is that as new notifications come in, they shift everything around, making it easy to lose my place or accidentally skip over comments.
I think this would make catching up on conversations much more manageable for users who are active in the community. Thanks for considering the suggestion!
jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
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.
jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
Hi there! Would it be possible to implement a grid view when looking at the shelves in our library? Even if itās 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”
jenniferPagebound commented on a feature request
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