Anyone else have a huge love for mass market paperbacks? 🥹 I just love a book that I can fit in one hand! My mass alert paperback collection of Redwall is a prized possession.

What’s your favorite printed book style to read or have in your shelves?

i was planning to buy myself the Kobo Clara BW (169.99$ CAD) for Christmas/birthday but i'm scared it's not gonna be worth it. i read a lot on my phone and not only is my screen's broken but i get really bad migraines that get worse because of blue light. basically i would love if anyone can give pros and cons for this kobo or any e-reader (i picked this specific one bc i'm very low maintenance and broke as fuck)

Fun question that popped up in one of my reading discords.

I am currently reading a non-fiction, and I would be farming yams in Jamaica. Honestly sounds like a good time to me lol.

Massive quality of life update coming your way!! We're dipping our toes into the stats waters with this one.. you can now update and track your progress on your current reads!

Click the progress bar below your current read on your home page to update progress. You can edit your progress for the day until midnight, and a status update with your reading progress will be added to your feed and shared to your followers :) This status update is the perfect place to add a comment for more personal updates that will be shared only to your followers.

Some notes on the nitty gritty:

• An app update is required to see this on iOS/Android!! Please update your app version (especially if you're seeing a weird "unhandled resource_type" message in your feed)
• only 1 update will be added to your feed per day per book when tracking progress (if you’re reading multiple books, one update for each book can be added to your feed). If you update your progress later in the day, the existing feed activity will be updated with the new progress.
• We are now passing your local time to our servers, which means you can edit that day’s progress until midnight local time for you and your start/finish read dates will reflect your local time rather than server time

We're working on home feed controls and updates to the Pagebound Club and Discuss tab next!

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy 💜💙

With all the new people joining because the app is up and running (Yay!!!) I wanted to put a question out there:

When reading a series do you prefer to space out your readings (either with just a few days or an extended period of time) or are you a binge reader for series?

Personally, in the past I’ve been a binge reader! I love sitting down with a series and flying though the books. Still am to some extent, but since joining Pagebound I’ve been trying to read more variety so I haven’t been doing whole series at a time. It’s definitely a different experience, and I’m still trying to decide which one I prefer so I’m curious what everyone else thinks!

Hi Friends! Similar to what @one_crazy_eliott did last month with starting a book a day this month I'll be embarking on a challenge to finish a book every day of October! (Last year I ended up averaging about 172 pages a day I believe.) The rules for myself are simple:

1. Finish a book everyday of October. (I use the word 'book' lightly. What I generally mean is a published work of fiction or nonfiction. The shortest book on my list this year is 44 pages.)
2. All books must be started in October...can't use anything I started before then. (Books don't need to be started and finished all in one day. So long as I started reading them in October, they are fair game.) Time to see if this will be an annual occurrence or not! 😂

Goals: Read a book everyday of October! Attempt for an average of 185 pages a day.

October 1: The Chibok Girls by Helon Habila— 124 pgs October 2: A Desperate Road to Freedom by Karleen Bradford— 240 pgs October 3: A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa-- 174 pgs October 4: Footsteps in the Snow by Carol Matas-- 185 pgs October 5: The Mist by Stephen King-- 176 pgs October 6: A Journey to the New World by Kathryn Lasky-- 173 pgs October 7: Days of Toil and Tears by Sarah Ellis— 219 pgs October 8: Children of the Corn by Stephen King— 46 pgs October 9: A Sea of Sorrows by Norah McClintock--176 pgs October 10: Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose-- 96 pgs October 11: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan-- 64 pgs October 12: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery-- 96 pgs October 13: Orphan at My Door by Jean Little-- 224 pgs October 14: The Winter of Red Snow by Kristiana Gregory-- 173 pgs October 15: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse-- 227 pgs October 16: Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan-- 98 pgs October 17: ✖️ October 18: Not a Nickel to Spare by Perry Nodelman-- 218 pgs October 19: Taken by Elizabeth Stephens-- 143 pgs October 20: Standing in the Light by Mary Pope Osborne-- 184 pgs October 21: I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly by Joyce Hansen-- 208 pgs October 22: ✖️ October 23: All Fall Down by Jean Little-- 200 pgs October 24: My Face to the Wind by Jim Murphy-- 182 pgs October 25: October 26: October 27: October 28: October 29: October 30: October 31:

Page total: 3626 Average pages per day: 151

which e- reader do you guys have and what do you like about it?

It cracks me up the fact that DNF stands for a very polite "Did Not Finish" when in my head it meant "Dead n Forgotten" because (for me) those book are literally forgotten and I will never finish them 🤣

Guys!! I've just downloaded the pagebound app on android. IT'S SO CUTE OMG I'M IN LOVE♥️🥹 It feels like I'm an aunt, that watched from afar this baby being created and perfected and now I can use it and I'm so proud of our two beautiful soul sisters who created this MASTERPIECE Did you guys downloaded it yet? What is your experience so far with it?✨️🌼

Hi everyone! We have submitted the app for app store approvals, so it should be publicly available very soon 🤞 In line with that, we have some very exciting design updates to share.

A new logo You’ve likely noticed the new logo and Pagebound icon, now visible on web. Since our app and website design are sisters, not twins, we redesigned the logo to tie both together. We won’t be changing the web design to match the app, so you can choose the experience and aesthetic that you prefer. We think each design suits its interface well, while retaining the whimsy and magic that is the spirit of Pagebound.

We also wanted more flexible and beautiful iconography that could work across app, web, socials (and that would look really cute on merch! 👀), and we’ve definitely achieved that with our new PB icon. We worked with illustrator Mariam Chagelishvili to create it and are thrilled to share that you’ll see more of her work soon…

Updated avatars (with new ones to come) We are excited to announce that we will be rolling out additional avatars for you to choose from—these “avatar packs” will be unlocked with each level you achieve on Pagebound. Check out the 2 new avatar options with Level 2 👀🎉

We’ve always known that as we grew, we’d need more options—lest every single comment come from the ghost 🙃. With Pagebound’s rapid growth, we’ve outpaced my ability to keep up with drawing new avatars. I’m happy to share that Mariam has taken over avatar creation and deserves all the praise for the future avatar packs releasing soon as well as the revamp you may have noticed to your current avatar. Through the lens of her own style, we asked her to preserve the essence of our OGs while creating a design system flexible enough to fit new concepts (ps I cannot wait until we release our cute vegetable pack 🥕)

We hope you love these visual changes that are a marker of how far we’ve come and how much we’ve grown!

*if you're still seeing old images, try clearing your cache!