Another quality of life update! You can now select which edition of a book you are reading, which will update the book info in your library. This is most relevant for changing which book cover shows up in your library, or changing the language edition. We get asked all the time about changing book covers, so I'm happy to report this is finally an option! The edition page will also show you additional data like publisher and page count.

This does require an app update if you are on the iOS/Android app.

We've been working with a few volunteer librarians to combine language editions on Pagebound and are making steady progress "deduping" popular authors. This is a necessary process to make sure we have one forum per book, and also ensures if you read a book in say Spanish, the English version is also marked "finished" and you get credit towards any Quests, Readalongs etc. Deduping will also make Search and navigating the author pages easier.

To change the language/edition of a book, click "View All Languages & Editions" on the book page (next to publish year above the book description). You'll see a list of all available editions, and can swap from that page. Your chosen edition will reflect in your Library.

Combining language editions is a monumental task, so we appreciate your patience as me, Lucy, and our volunteers work through it all!

Another fun update: we brought the "Featured Emoji" to the Discover Lists page!

We're still working on home feed updates and will be back soon with more updates :)

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

PS: if you're curious how deduping works: When language editions are combined, it just means that there is one Book/forum per listing, but the "deduped" editions are still available on the editions page. All reviews and forum posts that were on the deduped book will now show up on the main Book page.

I was wondering if anyone has pet peeves regarding how books are talked about in online spaces. Whether that's review styles, widespread opinions, marketing, etc. - do you have something that kinda annoys you a little bit? This isn't meant to be serious, just small lighthearted things that annoy you personally.

Mine is that people have no idea what plot- and character-driven mean. Time and time again, I'll go to log a book on StoryGraph that's COMPLETELY CLEARLY plot-driven only to see more users having it marked as character-driven than plot-driven and it drives me up the wall 😫 character-driven doesn't mean that the narrative is driven by a character doing something - THAT'S PLOT.

What are your pet peeves, if you have any?

Are there any particular styles/genres of stories that you prefer in books as opposed to other mediums and vice versa?

I find I love a character study in a book but it bores me in a movie 😅. And I prefer a scifi/fantasy novel over a movie for the amount of depth you can get in a book that's lost on screen.

On the other hand, I prefer ensemble casts when done in a movie, because I hate reading too many POVs or following too many characters. I also prefer a romcom movie over a romance novel most of the time. Also, any story with an audio/visual subject matter (like actors, musicians, etc.) make more sense to me when done on stage or screen.

Hot take - I liked the Hobbit better than LotR. I really appreciated the slower pace, and I thought Tolkien did such a good job pulling off a character with relatively small stakes thrown into a world with huge universe-ending problems.

I’m from a small town and struggling to source books. Our county library uses BorrowBox, and I don’t read enough to justify Kindle Unlimited, I have access to Prime Reading, but really if I want to read a book I have to hope my library has it or it’s on BorrowBox and for the types of books I read, it’s rare I find something.

Of the 3 Dia de los Muertos books, my library only has 1 copy of cemetery boys shared amongst 11 libraries (and even then its usual home is a high school library) 🤣

Does anyone else have this problem and can commiserate over the difficulty that can be living in rural areas and getting access to affordable books or just books in general.

Side note, does anyone remember pre-Netflix order a dvd and get it delivered, post it back and get another one? Can we have that for books a country wide library, to sign up and order a book from anywhere and not just your county. 🤣

While browsing the recommendation sections of a few books recently I noticed that a lot of the time the recommendations include books further into the series instead of or more so than other books/series with a similar vibe and I'm curious about the community sentiment towards that.

Personally I feel like the recs should be more for those instead of just more from the same series, as a reader will usually be aware that the next books exists and especially for long series actual new recommendations get buried a bit. On other platforms I use recommendations to find more books I will probably enjoy after I have finished a series and initially expected to find the same here.

I believe it's probably an issue with how you currently can't effectively look at all books in a series directly from one book in it, which will probably get implemented better in the future.

But how does everyone else feel about that? Please let me know your thoughts. 🫶🏼

Hi, I just checked how much time I have been spending on Pagebound ( it's addictive fr) this week. It turns out to be somewhere between 1 and half to 2 hours daily 🫨🤣 So, I was just wondering is it normal???!!! How much have you all been spending your time daily avg here lately?

(Please let me know I'm not alone) 😁

Anyone else have a huge love for mass market paperbacks? 🥹 I just love a book that I can fit in one hand! My mass alert paperback collection of Redwall is a prized possession.

What’s your favorite printed book style to read or have in your shelves?

If you had all the time in the world to read but could only stick to one format… which would it be? 🤔

📖 Hardcover 📚 Paperback 📱 Digital (Kindle/ebook) 🎧 Audiobook

Personally, I’m 100% Team Kindle 💕 I love the color display, being able to highlight passages, look up words instantly, read anywhere since it fits in nearly everything I carry, and never worry about lighting. It’s just so convenient!!

So I've never been one to use Amazon a whole lot. (I started looking for a Goodreads alternative when I found out it was owned by Amazon ((yes I live under a rock)) and that's how I made my pagebound account over the summer) So I know Kindles are very popular and they have that whole subscription but I mainly read from my local library or fanfic (lol) so I figured as long as I can get Libby, I'm good.

So anyway a few weeks ago my Kobo Libra 2 finally arrived (color wasn't that important to me + it was cheaper) and so now it's all set up, I'm all logged in, my favorite fanfics are downloaded and uploaded, so now I'm so excited to take this thing with me everywhere.

(Too bad the cross country season is over otherwise I could've taken it with me during invitationals since those last hours)

Anyone else like buy an ereader with the partial intention of fanfic?? Lol like now I can read it and say oh it's a xx genre book instead of like why are you reading on your phone (this comment was the main point of my post but mm Kobo at least you don't have ads on the screen)

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