I was asked to start writing out my Christmas list (even though I am past the age of needing gifts, but I won't say no 😁).

I definitely want bookish things, but not books (because I like to go to the store and get those myself as part of the fun).

I thought it would be a fun challenge to ask members of this community what bookish or book related items they would ask for in an ideal world.

Rule: Bookish, book related, but not a specific title of book.

Think more accessories, related items, merch, apparel, stuff you like to use as you read, drinks, games, etc.

The choice is yours.

FEEL FREE TO PARTICIPATE WHETHER YOU CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS OR NOT. I myself am not religious and hold no denominational association to the holiday. All are welcome to comment and it can just be a wishlist.

We’re about a month and a half away from the new year! What are your most anticipated book releases for 2026? I am personally looking forward to The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan in February, and Immortal Game by Allison Saft on August 4th.

Does anybody hate reading a 7 feet guy with 46 pack abs and an extremely small incapable girl but gets angry very easily, trope? Don't get me wrong, I've thoroughly enjoyed some books with this trope but why do I feel every romantasy incorporates this nowadays, can I get a fresh perspective please? 😭

I'm curious what people's thoughts are with blind date with a book.

Would you pick one up?

How much info do you want before you pick it up?

Can any store do it or would you rather from speciality stores?

Would you do it with friends?

Do you open the book right away or save it for a rainy day?

I'm curious to know your thoughts

With the year coming to a close very soon (time is flying I can’t believe it), I have started thinking about how I’m going to track my reading next year and if I want to make any changes — yes, I am a strange person who doesn’t like making changes in the middle of the year, so I wait for new years haha.

Pagebound has been a new addition for me this year, and of course, I want to continue using it – especially because I’m so excited for the new features we’ll get soon! Since I’ve been using GR less and less for the past months, I will cut it out of my book tracking habits as much as possible.

For now, I think I’ll stick with Storygraph on the side, simply because I love being able to track my personal reading challenges there, but with PB growing I might keep a focus on here!!

My favourite way to track books though is excel or rather google sheets. I love building my tracker every year and I can just make graphs for the stats that I want to see and… yeah, I’m very nerdy about it. I’m currently still working on some finishing touches but I cannot wait to start using my tracker come January!! (feel free to take a peek at it, I don’t mind if anyone wants to use it as a template hehe) I’ve been making these trackers since 2023 I believe, originally I based it on a tracker I found online and I’ve been improving it since!

TLDR, are you going to make any changes to your book tracking next year? do you only use PB or any other apps? is anyone else a statistics freak?

Other than the 52 prompts challenge, what other reading challenges do you participate in, if you do? I like doing the 52 prompts and A-Z!

I love love love buying second hand books. With how trendy thrifting and diy has become again, it rly surprises me that this craze hasn't reached the book community

I used to check the used sections in my local bookstores, now I feel like they're smaller, or just not well organized (pretty much ruined books, insanely dusty and not even genre categorized). I've been trying buying books on vinted lately, which means I can't check whether the quality of the book is up to my liking, but especially with how expensive books have gotten it's been a dream seeing paperbacks around 5 to 12 euros again. I also saw a seller selling their annotated books, which tbh seemed a bit weird to me? I annotate books for my collection, or to gift to friends, but I still think its super cute and I would love to get one of her copies one day (she has ppl we meet on vacation and it's just so hard to find foreign books in my country, plus it's cheaper!!!)

I think certain readers are quite picky when it comes to their books. No creasing, no stains, no annotations, which is a preference, I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but maybe it deters ppl from getting second hand. I think there's smth so special to holding a book someone else has held before, even if it's a little ruined

going to go ahead and be picturing andrew minyard here. help

We have a new app release available on iOS and Android as of this afternoon! Please update your apps to see the following updates (also available on web):

Public Roadmap We get a huge amount of feedback every day, and see all of your chatter in the Pagebound Club about requests and enhancements. One of our core values is transparency, and in that spirit we have released a public Roadmap to show everyone what we’re working on, what we have planned, and what has been released. Everyone can view this roadmap in the footer on web, or in the “more” menu on the app.

Official Feature Requests On the Roadmap, you’ll see a link to Feature Requests. One benefit of joining Pagebound Royalty is that you can submit official feature requests, which we will mark as “approved” or “won't do,” each with an explanation. Once work has started on a request, it will move to the roadmap. Pagebound Royalty members also have the ability to comment and like both roadmap items and feature requests. We have pre-populated the roadmap with things we’re working on through the end of the year, and added our most popular requests to the Feature Request section. While we accept and read feedback from anyone, we do not have the bandwidth as a 2-person team to respond individually; the Roadmap will give everyone the ability to see what’s coming soon on Pagebound, give us a streamlined and efficient way to respond to requests, and the feedback form is still available at support.pagebound.co to anyone.

Giveaways We've been working behind the scenes to put together a Giveaway offering which will go live early 2026. This means anyone on Pagebound will be able to enter Giveaways for physical, audio, and ebooks :) Authors of Pagebound: If you or anyone you know is looking for marketing opportunities, we'd love work with you! Check out https://support.pagebound.co/giveaways to learn more; we'd love if you shared this with your author communities as well!

Other Improvements In addition to various bug fixes, we also added a quick-link when you create a Progress Update (% bar on your home page) to add a comment to update your followers! This is a great place to share personal updates, what you think of the book so far, and quick thoughts (ex. "loving this so far"). The book forums are still the place to start more in-depth discussions relevant to the broader community.

Thanks everyone and happy reading, Jennifer & Lucy 💜💙