Anyone notice any new favorite features especially with the most recent update?

A few smaller things I have noticed that I really enjoy is:

1. Clicking on the book picture to make it bigger! Sometimes I just really need a closer look and I’m surprised how much I notice and enjoy this feature.

**2. The page number being viewable on the main book page. I look for it every time and it’s a weird thing that I just like to know.

**3. Loving the Feed option on book pages. Again my curiosity to just know who is currently reading a book I’m also reading because I’m a creeper at heart.

One thing I’m looking forward to that is in the works is being able to tag users on comments. Especially when noting where you got a recommendation from or shouting out someone’s funny comments.

So if you’re like me and are intensely motivated by ✨shiny things✨, all the Quest badges are so cute and beautiful and fun! And you want to collect them all because not only do they represent achieving a certain reading goal, but they also make your profile the most aesthetically pleasing one on the block!

I’ve joked about collecting a bunch simply because they look good together before, but with the most recent batch of Quests and avatar images that dropped, I thought there were enough options to try to make little themed sets of them as a way to procrastinate all my responsibilities. I’ve come up with a few just-for-fun “badge packs” below (solely based on the badge designs) that I think would look cool if I collected them all, but i would love to see what other people come up with! Go forth and mix and match!

Fairy Glen

For when you want your profile to resemble an enchanted meadow of sunlight and flowers and the shiniest lil critters you have ever laid eyes on

Quest badges featured: Plants, fungi, and trees - oh my!, Majestic Minibeasts, Intro to Poetry Possible avatar pairings: Fairy, elf, unicorn, satyr

Once Upon a Dream

For when you want to pretend you live in a castle in the clouds with a rainbow outside your bedroom window. And heaps of books littering the place, of course

Quest badges featured: Fairy Tale Retellings, Historical Fiction Starter Pack Vol II, LGBTQ+ Middle Grade Possible avatar pairings: Angel, princess, genie, witch

Valley of Monsters

For when you’re grinding a fantasy RPG and they throw you into a training arc. Scales and fangs and claws abound!

Quest badges featured: Those Who Lurk Among Us: Monster Manga, Flights of Fire, Mermaids After Dark Possible avatar pairings: Devil, goblin, monster, western dragon

Abducted by Aliens (but make it a grainy 1980s TV program)

For the classic sci-fi vibe. Lil green martians and flying saucers and questionable CGI (may or may not feature an “alien planet” that was filmed in some random area outside of LA)

Quest badges featured: LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi Charcuterie, Operation Epic Scope Possible avatar pairings: Alien, superhero, robot, astronaut

Queen of Hearts

For when you’re in the mood to plant a rose garden atop the beheaded corpses of your enemies. Beware the flesh-eating flowers!

Quest badges featured: Tragic Love: Queer Edition, Fantasy and Sci-Fi with a Side of Romance, Botanical Horror Possible avatar pairings: Vampire, Fabio, emo girl, Victorian Gothic

Museum Display

For when the vibe is walking into a collection of priceless artifacts and restored antiques, ready to learn about history!

Quest badges featured: Mythological World Tour, Classics Starter Pack Vol II, Greek Myth Retellings Possible avatar pairings: Detective, audiobook (you’re taking the guided audio tour)

Medieval Quest

For when you need everyone to know that you’re AOL on a quest for glory at the behest of the local monarch

Quest badges featured: Medieval Times, Gothic Literature, Universe Quest: The Cosmere + Cytoverse Possible avatar pairings: Knight, wizard, dragon, prince

Back From The Dead For The Purpose of Murdering Shitty Men

What it says on the tin

Quest badges featured: Blood Suckers, Supporting Women’s Wrongs, Sapphic Vampires Possible avatar pairings: Emo girl, vampire girl, punk

’Twas a Dark and Stormy Night

For those classic haunted house vibes. It’s a horror movie, and you’re for sure going to investigate the strange bump coming from the basement!

Quest badges featured: Whispers in the Walls, Queer Horror, The Macleaniverse Possible avatar pairings: Emo boy, ghost, Binx

Some other possible ones I thought of: The Vampire Lord’s Crusty Old Castle (Gothic Literature, Dark Academia, Blood Suckers), I’m A Magical Girl But I Love Cannibalism (Fairy Tale Retellings, Gothic Literature, Tragic Queers), A Bite To Eat (British & Irish Classic Literature, Classic Literature From the United States, Love, but Also Food), Serving Cunt in a Brutalist Hellscape (Feminine Rage, Fictional(?) Dystopian Societies, Every Villain is a Hero in Their Own Eyes), Day In the Life (Quiet Novels, Cozy Fantasy, punctuation: optional)

I ordered a Boox Color Go 7 II (or whatever it's called). It should be here in a couple of days. 🥰

I really like my Colorsoft and Paperwhite, but I am trying to expand away from amazon. I have been buying Nook books - their devices are not my favorite, but I like the mobile app. I have some Kobo purchases, and I even bought one on Bookshop (will buy more there in the future, probably, depending on how this device works out). And I like e-ink too much to be locked into just my iPhone or to buy an iPad for books.

So we'll see. I'll get all my apps in one device and still be able to read on e-ink (and color for the comics). Anyone else gone down this road? I am excited.

Or have a made a terrible mistake? 😳

I read this when I was in college and didn't realize I was going to feel so much nostalgia when i picked this up for a re-read. I can see why I loved the universe so much, though, because I'm just as hooked now as I was then. PLEASE don't let me down. I have such high hopes!

Hello! I’m Chicana and I am decently fluent Spanish (I can hold convos with people usually) but really want to get better at comprehension. I’m going to Mexico soon and want to be able to hold my own and get around speaking mostly Spanish—so I want to challenge myself to read a book in Spanish to help with comprehension! Does anyone have any recommendations of good books in Spanish?

Genres I like include: gothic literature, contemporary fiction, horror/thriller

Hi everyone! My book club uses Discord for our discussions, but because of Discord's announcement that they might be asking users for ID documents, we're looking at alternatives. Has anyone tried a similar platform they enjoyed? Most of the ones we've found seemed to be geared more towards professional organizations (similar to Slack) or are more individual oriented than community based (like Bluesky and Signal).

Literally clutching my pearls reading about a high stakes moment only to be reminded that these people are walking around in chanclas the whole time…it takes me out every time they say something about “my sandals”