This book is so good! I love this series!

I need new books to stop coming out for a little while, because I have a gigantic backlog of books that I want to get through but the publishing industry keeps dangling shiny new releases in front of my nose and novelty makes my brain tingle and I am weak-willed

I feel like so far Sanderson is writing in kinda Jay Kristoff style? Chatting with the reader, asking ironic questions. This style matches the vibe perfectly

When I downloaded Pagebound (really love it so far!) I clicked through the guideline on how and what to post but having used the app for a few days now I'm wondering what people actually write in the book forums themself and what they like to read when they click on them? And especially: how much do you share?

For example, the guide says that good posts spark a discussion and are not personal in the sense of "I just got the book, excited for the read!" or to be mindful that a review belongs in a separate section. I think that these are good rules to go by but I always question myself, when I want to post something to the forum. Is it too personal? Too unfit for a discussion? My motivator for a post is in most cases an emotional reaction to a part of the book or a powerful quote. Sometimes I write a longer text about the feeling the book creates but sometimes I just want to share a quick thought which is not necessarily deep or highly reflected. I realised that sometimes, the internal want for an intellectual post made me hold back on sharing something.

So, my question is: what do you mostly share in the forums? What is your motivation for a post? Do you feel the need to be intellectual or do you like to share quick thoughts without a deep question behind it?

And on the other hand: when you open forums, what kind of posts do you like the most? While I do enjoy the deep, long posts that touch on different topics, reading the silly little lines about a particular scene makes me excited for the book and feel more like the forum is a friend group where not every thought has to be deep and completely formed. But is that the goal here? And on this note: how much sharing is too much? Some books make me want to post every other page (overdramatized for dramatic effect), but if I did that, I feel like I'm cluttering the forums.

Maybe I'm overthinking the whole thing? I just want to follow the guide and not disrespect the rules 😅

Heya, a friend of mine just switched over from goodreads but is rather overwhelmed and also somewhat uninterested in the updates from strangers that pop up on the main page.

So my question. Is there any way to remove that and make this whole thing a little more private. Like only seeing updates of the people you follow as an example?

I myself struggle with that and get easily overwhelmed with too much info, so its also something I asked myself but I haven’t found any relating settings so far.

And why won't you read said books 🤔

I've been wanting to make an Unreliable Narrator list for a while but I'm hesitant. Unreliable Narrator is a buzz-word to me, and I'll be immediately interested in a book if I'm told it's present in it, but people might also consider it's a spoiler, and lists have the first few books in it shown. What do you guys think ? It's fine, or better not?

When I first joined Pagebound I think the site had only been launched a month prior. There weren't a lot of people here so sometimes the activity felt slow, and I spent a looot of time posting suggestions in the forums. It's just amazing to me to see that a year later this site is so bustling with so many wonderful people and that there have been so many quality of life updates INCLUDING THE APP!! That's huge!!!! I still remember the days when you couldn't enter your own reading dates!

Have you ever downvoted a post or comment ? I'm curious to see because if I don't like something I will just not upvote it, but I guess if it were really problematic maybe I would downvote...? Anyway, I'm mostly curious to see, what happens, does the user receive a notification like for upvotes ? Do we lose points ? Is the post just almost never shown because it's less liked ?

I guess my conclusion is : would you downvote this please so I can see ? Thanks 😁 Also tell me what you think about downvoting please

[Answer] : no notifications, no point lost, no points gained. A bit anti-climactic, but I think I did not really expect anything else 😏

Public services are lovely beautiful things. There are many public services I take advantage of but one of them that I think the majority of us can appreciate is libraries! We have so many librarians on here (a reminder, infinite forehead kisses to you all) and just people who enjoy going to and being at the library for the books, programs, and resources!!!

I've mentioned VERY briefly before about how Amazon and other capitalistic centered for profit companies have a goal to eliminate most public services but right now Amazon is targeting libraries!!! BOOOO!!! Amazon is taking their physical book store plan a step further to start planning our AMAZON LIBRARIES.

Guys I think we are all smart enough to know it's so that politicians with enough influence and palm greasing from Amazon can say "We no longer require this public service it's not even good! They never have the books and you have to even wait for ebooks!" And then they can GET RID of libraries and use what are actually SUPER small portions of our taxes and instead of funding thousand of libraries there will now be one or MAYBE two "Amazon libraries" in states with low literacy and we will be flooded by large marquees that say AMAZON GROCERY, AMAZON ELEMENTARY, AMAZON LIBRARY, AMAZON MALL, AMAZON CAR DEALER, AMAZON SHIPPING AND POSTAGE, ALL of them requiring a monthly membership that would far outweigh any taxes you pay AND THEN you will still have to pay those same taxes! Because they will now be a former library funnel of revenue that Amazon will argue they need as support from the government and THEY WILL GET IT.

We will still pay the same taxes for all of our public services we will just also have to pay a membership to Amazon on top of it.

I am URGING, BEGGING, PLEADING, all of you who can, PLEASE go and get a library card. Go get your local city, county, state, university, what have you! In the US you are often entitled to a card for where you WORK as well as where you LIVE. People from outside the US please share tips, tricks, advice, or just anecdotes about your library and how you sign up for the library and how to get additional memberships.

Here is a link to an Instagram video where a librarian explains how AMAZON and AUDIBLE are making ebooks, and audiobooks incredibly scarce for libraries!!! https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPWpZVKkcHH/?igsh=MXF6ZjZ0YmozZmM0bQ==

there's so much going on that i don't even know where to start... but maybe there are too many references to the og trilogy, sometimes it just look like a fanfiction trying to copy the first book.

We all want men in books, but they sadly do not exist, or do they? Share your stories of past or present experiences that felt like it was straight out of a book. You don't have to have dated them, or still be with them, just something you sometimes think of and believe could be written into a book! Ɛ>