PageBound has spoiled me to the core!

I arrived on PB with perfectly sensible reading habits and somehow wandered into enchanted forests 🪾, ancient magic ✨, impossible plots and women with entirely justified grievances 🍒. Since then, I’ve been reading like I’ve discovered a secret door in the library.

Fantasy and female rage, apparently, my two great literary loves.

Hi all! I’m curious to hear others’ thoughts on buying expensive special editions of books? I’ve been getting ads for Folio Society recently and I’m on the fence whether to buy one of their editions of a favourite book of mine. On one hand, the art is absolutely beautiful and I would love to have a hardback copy like this of a story I adore. On the other hand — I’m not sure how much I would read that edition, or even look at it. I’ve been partial to ebooks lately, I’m running out of shelf space, and I feel like I’d be nervous to handle such an expensive book.

So I guess my questions are: if you personally buy collector’s editions of books, are they mostly for display or do you read them? What makes it worth it for you? Or if you don’t buy editions like this, what makes you feel they’re not worth it?

hey! has anyone done or heard of the read your colour test? my sister just told me about it and it's pretty accurate to both of us.

i'm an experimental orange reader! what about you guys?

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EDIT: just been notified that apparently the site has very blatantly used ai before. i wasn't aware of this when posting so just take note! fuck ai ‼️

Am I crazy or am I sensing a major loosening of the editor's reigns on this one?

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

Am I crazy or am I sensing a major loosening of the editor's reigns on this one?