Hello everyone! I hope this post does not come off as rude or nit-picky, please bear with me. I started using Pagebound a few weeks before the app was released, but then stopped for a bit because life got busy. I've finally started using it frequently again (so many new and awesome users!) and have noticed that forum etiquette seems to be...lacking (I make these comments based on the pinned club post that details forum etiquette). I find my feed full of forum posts saying things like "no way" or "from 0%...so excited to finally start this!" I find this to be the opposite of what Pagebound is meant to be --- ENGAGING. I understand forums to be a space for conversation, analysis, and sharing impactful excerpts, but that doesn't seem to be how they're used by a lot of people. Sometimes I see posts on books that I read a few months or a few years ago and I'd love to connect with people that are currently reading them, but I just have nothing to comment on their posts because they are so vague.

I know it does not make sense for forums to be "monitored" (for lack of a better word), so I'm just wondering...are these short comments becoming the new normal for forums? I understand that as an app grows and more users join it becomes hard (impossible) to regulate things like this. What are your thoughts on forums and forum etiquette?

Edit: Thank you to everyone commenting their thoughts on this! I love reading everyone's opinions, even if I don't have the energy to reply to all of them. There seems to be a consensus of not engaging, which I understand; it is a nuanced situation. I also appreciate the love for memes, haha. I'm glad this was able to stimulate some discussion and hopefully other users find the thoughts here helpful (I know I did😄). Edit 2: Going from reading all of these replies back to my feed and seeing exactly the kinds of two-word posts we're talking about is....I can't think of a good word but it sure is something!😅

Without doxing yourself plzzz

Some of you are reading so much with full time jobs😭 I gotta know what y’all do and how many hours you’re doing it. I know a few people are lucky enough to get to read on the job! That’s the dream.

For those of you who like to write (or have to do a lot of it even if you don't like it), or like to annotate books, what are your favorite writing instruments?

For general writing, I like fountain pens (and my dozens of bottles of ink). Day to day, I use the Lamy Safari, but I have a handful of cheap Japanese "Preppy" fountain pens that write well and I have some other fountain pens of various quality/price.

I also recently got a brass pen with a Japanese made felt tip that also takes fountain pen ink and writes wonderfully. I have a dip pen and some acrylic inks somewhere but I rarely use that one.

All of the above require paper that will take the ink, so they're not ideal for annotating. I typically use a mechanical pencil when annotating, rather than ink. Unless I am annotating in my Kobo Libra Colour.

But for general writing I do lik pens and I try to pick up a variety of different or unusual pens when I can!

It reminds me of being on the internet in the early 2000s. It's earnest, it works (even if some things are a lil clunky) and it's free of ads and garbage. Yesterday, I spent hours avoiding all the bullshit of the world by just entering the last two years of my read list into this site. Then, I started making lists.... I went a bit crazy. But holy, the news is so intense, it felt nice to get some dopamine in a light way.

Don't know if this is just a me thing or not, or even if the suggested changes would be possible to do, but anyway.

I think it would be fun/useful if in the plan section it could show your "to be read" books on the search instead of the same books it shows on the normal search. Or that there would be a toggle or something to switch to look up only your library shelves/specific shelf.

To me at least it would streamline planning a bit better, because I won't plan to read books I don't have on my tbr shelf. Right now I find myself not using the planning section much because it feels janky.

Searching books on the plan section is something I don't use, because I don't remember the exact name of the book/don't remember all the books I have on my tbr. So if I use it I just put them to the plan from my tbr library, but I feel like seeing the plan while/after putting books from your library there would be more useful.

Also, for someone whose reading plans change all the time depending on which library books i get and when, rearranging books in your plan (different months) is currently very tedious. Again, I don't know how easy/hard/impossible my suggestions are, but a drag and drop rearrangement system etc. would be so useful at least to me.