I want to preface that this could absolutely be a personal thing, but I still wanted to share my thoughts. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, and honestly, I think PageBound has serious potential to do something great for the book community. The way it’s set up with the forums, the quests, and the front page (that's incredibly engaging & also catchy, like it makes me want to look at it and scroll haha), it actually feels like it could change things when it comes to getting people to pick up new books and pick up diverse books. I’ve been using PageBound since, I think, March? and in that time, I’ve seen so many little instances where I’ll leave a discussion post or review and then i'll notice someone add that book to their TBR. I’ve even personally bumped books up my own TBR just because I saw people chatting about them or sharing reviews that caught my attention (e.g. An Ember in the Ashes, I saw people chit chatting about it and felt like I wanted to be involved haha so then it was the next book I read) or I’ll see someone add a book to their TBR so I’ll check it out. The Quests have also helped me pick up books that I may have never picked up on my own. I’ve been on Goodreads since 2012, jumped on StoryGraph when it launched, and I’ve tried apps like Tome and Fable too but I’ve never really felt this kind of interaction before. With PageBound though, the community vibe is so real, and it’s already proving it can influence what people read. I do sometimes use TikTok for recommendations, but I’m less likely to trust those since a lot of influencers get paid to make videos and I don’t really take recommendations at all from Instagram. There’s reddit, but again, sometimes the authors are sneakily in there recommending lmao, but It’s good if you’re looking for books with similar vibes to ones you like. So yeah, I can totally see this becoming a major space for building hype, especially for ARCs and helping books gain early traction. There’s something really exciting here.

Hi! I've recently finished reading Ignite Me and I was wondering if the last three books are worth it. I saw that they came out like 4 years after Ignite Me was published, and that the series was supposed to be just the first three. Honestly the series has not really been what I was expecting, too muck tt hype I think. I don't want to get bored.

I read Circe quite some time ago and I want to re read it but my TBR is so long, I just can't. Anyone that has finished Circe, any recommendations on similar greek mythology books that are just as good? I've read Madeline Miller's other books already and loved them. Chef's kiss, she needs to write MORE. lol

I'm new! I just wanna know if we have monthly reading wrap-ups we can share or screenshot?

Hey guys found u on ig , loved your work , instantly joined and enjoyed most of the features here but just one request can you please add more regional books or let people add by themselves. Like public help or something!!

I didn't hear of Octavia Butler until I was an adult (in the last few years really) but feel like she should've been introduced in high school English class! Curious how everyone else was first introduced to her work?

Urban fantasy is a genre I really like and I wanna get more into, but most of the discussions I've seen around are all about series that are pretty old, albeit still serializing. I tend to avoid older books mostly because they have a lot of casual bigotry in them (I've noticed a lot of 2000s/2010s specific brand of sexism and I'm tired of it) so I was wondering if anyone knew of some newer urban fantasy series without that? The only series I'm currently following that fits the bill is the Psy-Changeling series by Nalini Singh (huge recommend btw) so I would love more recs! Just no Zionist authors please 😇 (I know SJM has an UF series and I wanted to let y'all know upfront I'm not interested)

Is there a way to sort our followers? I like following people back and it would be nice if I could have my most recent followers first so that I can go through them instead of having to scroll and find the ones I haven't followed back. It's not a big deal if there isn't. I was just wondering if there might be an easier way!

Hello fellow readers. I am a new user, just finding pagebound several days ago and I like the layout so much that I am transcribing my Physical Book Journal in one book at a time. Please help me out - as a troglodyte I don't know if I am just missing something. Every time I enter a new book into my Finished shelf, and add dates I have to delete a 'previous read' with no dates attached. I know it's not really a big deal but I have read over 100 books this year and so if there is a better way then I would love to know before I add all these in! Let me know if this makes any sense - and if you know a work around?