I’ve been on a little reading sprint this morning/afternoon and need a fun break! Come join me if you do too ☕️🐶 . If you could design your own avatar for pagebound, what would your vibes be?! A little animal not featured yet? Are you a vegetable? Are you just a color?? Hm, I kind of want to be a veggie 🥕 lol.

I think we should explore lots of different genres, especially so we don’t get bored and can experience something new. Moreover when it comes to fiction and non-fiction I feel like everyone should balance imagination and reasoning.

Feel free to drop ur recommendations! 📚✨

i'm really liking the concept of this community so far as an old fart millenial. only been here a day or two but it's almost... livejournalesque? certainly the closest thing to that vibe that i've found this decade aside from the ghost of tumblr past (which i still frequent and curate and is kinda the only social media i can actually browse for fun anymore tbh). i'm sure others must feel similarly, so feel free to add your thoughts on this as well!

also, if there's anything like this for movies/series/games that actually seems to work as intended, please feed them into my bloodstream. i've been looking forever and can barely believe pagebound is a thing that exists, though i'm obviously tempering my expectations for now until i can get a more holistic view on how it works etc.

hopefully i'm posting this in right place lmao. historically i've been a big lurker everywhere and i'm trying to change that to a degree, but it can come with some trial and error 🤷‍♂️

In no way is this meant to shame anyone for the length or depth of their posts, as the point of them is to spark conversation and share your thoughts, but has anyone noticed that forum posts have been getting incredibly vague and short? I think I stumble across at least a dozen posts with less than ten words and zero context every day, and I’m just curious if this is limited to certain books or if it’s become a widespread thing.

I don't use Kindle's, but I did see this recently and wanted to know what everyone thought, especially people who may use older Kindle's to read.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/consumer-electronics/amazon-just-killed-your-old-kindle-even-though-it-still-works-perfectly/ar-AA20vYRy?ocid=BingNewsVerp "Your 2012 Paperwhite still turns pages like a champ, but Amazon just handed it a death sentence. After May 20, 2026, Kindles and Fire tablets released in 2012 or earlier lose access to the Kindle Store entirely. No new purchases. No library borrows. No fresh downloads."

https://mashable.com/article/amazon-kindle-support-ending-backlash-outrage "Amazon is facing backlash from Kindle owners after notifying users this week that support for Kindle devices released in 2012 or earlier will end on May 20"

https://mashable.com/article/amazon-discontinuing-kindle-1st-gen-support "In the email Amazon sent to users, it stated: "Amazon is discontinuing support for Kindle devices released in 2012 or earlier." But what does discontuning support actually mean? Devices will no longer have web support; therefore, they won't have the Send to Kindle feature, which requires an internet connection. It also means you won't be able to borrow or download books from the Kindle Store, including Libby e-books, since they go through the Kindle Store. In Amazon's email, they also mentioned that if you deregister and factory reset the device, you cannot register it again." "The affected Kindles aren't necessarily being deactivated; service will just be limited. You can still read the books you have already downloaded to your Kindle per usual." "If you connect your Kindle to a computer and use a program like Calibre, you can still easily transfer books to your Kindle. Who's really losing out are Libby users, who have benefited from the Send to Kindle feature."

I'm curious, when choosing your book's edition, do you choose the one you own or do you just choose the pretty one?

For me, I'll admit I choose the pretty covers 😭 sometimes my books may have mismatched covers, as much as it HURTS my soul. I don't want that to be displayed here, so I choose the edition of the book that I would've preferred to get. I did this with An Ember In The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir! I just wanted all the covers to be having the same style instead of different ones.

For readers out there who also moonlight as book collectors, do you lend out your books? If so, give me your returned book horror stories? Or, do you even expect to get them back?

I've noticed book journals now have pages for books lent out, so you can keep track of who has your books and when they were borrowed. I love this feature, IF I were comfortable lending out my books all willy-nilly. I am not. There are a select few people I allow to borrow my books, and they get on that shortlist by returning the books in good condition, replacing a book if they accidentally damaged it, and if they're trusted to actually return them.

There's nothing worse than loaning a book to someone and never seeing it again. I've also been known to have a loaning copy of a book and a private copy of a book.

My 5 star reads have been lacking so far this year with only one fiction 5 star. I desperately need a win. Comment your favorite queer novel that deserve 5 stars from me

hello everyone! i wanted to gauge interest for an unofficial readalong of bright dead things by ada limón for may. i was thinking between may 1st-31st! i’ve read a lot of her collections and i wanted to share my love of her work with all of you. similar to the way @Loyaute did the readalong in march, i was planning to post questions in the forum related to each poem during that time, & would post a tentative schedule closer to may 1st! i’m thinking of grouping poems together weekly, so there’s plenty of time to work around everyone’s schedules. lemme know your thoughts :))

me, fighting through to the bitter end of a hate read just so i can write a thoroughly scathing review:

i'm really liking the concept of this community so far as an old fart millenial. only been here a day or two but it's almost... livejournalesque? certainly the closest thing to that vibe that i've found this decade aside from the ghost of tumblr past (which i still frequent and curate and is kinda the only social media i can actually browse for fun anymore tbh). i'm sure others must feel similarly, so feel free to add your thoughts on this as well!

also, if there's anything like this for movies/series/games that actually seems to work as intended, please feed them into my bloodstream. i've been looking forever and can barely believe pagebound is a thing that exists, though i'm obviously tempering my expectations for now until i can get a more holistic view on how it works etc.

hopefully i'm posting this in right place lmao. historically i've been a big lurker everywhere and i'm trying to change that to a degree, but it can come with some trial and error 🤷‍♂️

How do you feel about downvotes? Have you ever downvoted someone’s post? I’ve just discovered this feature (someone downvoted a post I made on a book forum), and I felt kind of bad 🙈