I want to preface that this could absolutely be a personal thing, but I still wanted to share my thoughts. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, and honestly, I think PageBound has serious potential to do something great for the book community. The way it’s set up with the forums, the quests, and the front page (that's incredibly engaging & also catchy, like it makes me want to look at it and scroll haha), it actually feels like it could change things when it comes to getting people to pick up new books and pick up diverse books. I’ve been using PageBound since, I think, March? and in that time, I’ve seen so many little instances where I’ll leave a discussion post or review and then i'll notice someone add that book to their TBR. I’ve even personally bumped books up my own TBR just because I saw people chatting about them or sharing reviews that caught my attention (e.g. An Ember in the Ashes, I saw people chit chatting about it and felt like I wanted to be involved haha so then it was the next book I read) or I’ll see someone add a book to their TBR so I’ll check it out. The Quests have also helped me pick up books that I may have never picked up on my own. I’ve been on Goodreads since 2012, jumped on StoryGraph when it launched, and I’ve tried apps like Tome and Fable too but I’ve never really felt this kind of interaction before. With PageBound though, the community vibe is so real, and it’s already proving it can influence what people read. I do sometimes use TikTok for recommendations, but I’m less likely to trust those since a lot of influencers get paid to make videos and I don’t really take recommendations at all from Instagram. There’s reddit, but again, sometimes the authors are sneakily in there recommending lmao, but It’s good if you’re looking for books with similar vibes to ones you like. So yeah, I can totally see this becoming a major space for building hype, especially for ARCs and helping books gain early traction. There’s something really exciting here.

Why not make it a post while it does not have an official dedicated thing yet? I’m curious to see everyone’s monthly reading wrap up! This is my personal reading wrap of June: ˖*°࿐𝒥𝓊𝓃𝑒 𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑: 7 𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑: 2.854 ↠ Black Tide Son 4.5✩ ↠ Swordheart 3✩ ↠ The Little Prince 3.75✩ ↠ Ruin 4.75✩ ↠ Yellowface 4.25✩ ↠ The Voyage of the Basilisk 4.5✩ ↠ The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 5✩ 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

I got a 3yo and a 17mo, and I need some picture book recommendations! We are almost through our personal library of secondhand picture books (read multiple times). We are ready to start borrowing from the library but there are SOOOO many books to choose from there. I need a starting point hahaha.

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Hello! May I suggest an improvement? I'll try to be as clear and precise as possible, and I'd like to say a huge thank you to Jennifer and Lucy for providing us with an incredible site! Thank you so much! The improvement concerns books that are part of the same collection. On Goodreads, it's possible to click on the collection name to find all the books in that collection. But here, that's not possible (or maybe I haven't found a way to do it?). Would it be possible to add that? This would make it easier to find your way around books and reading lists. Thank you in advance!

hi hello -- for folks that have access to a public library (in the US at least), just reminding everyone that most libraries host a summer reading challenge where you can potentially win free books, raffles, prizes, etc. every library is different, but the challenge could be minutes or hours and it can really help public libraries with funding, advocacy, and community building! ok outreach pitch over, happy reading 📚☀

Hi, friends! Every year, I join a charity reading program called Read For Books whereby for every 10 individuals who read for at least 15mins in the month of July, books are donated to the less privileged. This year, since I have just joined Pagebound, I thought it would be nice to share this with everyone who might be interested in taking part as well. The charity event is opened to everyone from every country and it includes all forms of reading: paperbacks, audiobooks, magazines, ebooks, etc. You can join as individuals or in groups too. If you are interested, you can read more about it at this link and sign up 😊 I hope we can all give back to the community by doing what we love to do: reading! Thank you 🫶🏼 https://readingnation.nlb.gov.sg/initiatives/readforbooks/

I didn't have much interest in reading this book, it being non fiction and containing some triggering topics, but seeing people love it so much to the point of it getting a series adaptation is making me want to read it. And I'm just glad Jennette herself will be very involved in the adaptation as a showrunner, writer, and executive producer.

I feel like this is unpopular opinion, but I like this one better than the Caraval series.

Everyone has at least one favorite book from their childhood that they cherish forever, or that one book as a young reader that got you into reading into adulthood? What was yours? (I'll be adding them to my tbr, for real.) My favorite book as a young reader was A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray and her Gemma Doyle Series. PS: I am loving reading everyone’s favorite books as a kid!!! Thank you all for sharing :)