Apart from the obvious things like being Anti AI and women owned and women run, the thing I love about PageBound the most is how I don't feel the need or the pressure to constantly being here and build an online presence because I want my silly little thoughts to be heard. This community has been built in such a way that it's asking people to take a step back and breathe and write and post with authenticity. I love not having to worry about algorithms or likes or follows. I love that I can come here whenever I feel like it and leave whenever I feel like it without it negatively impacting anything.

I can't believe we are 3 months away from 2026, time really flew by! So as your curious reader friend, I want to know all about your tbr plans for these last months, which books you will have to read before the year is finished?👀👀

I definitely need to read The things gods break by Abigail Owen and the rest of the Darkmore Penitentiary by Susanne Valenti and Caroline Peckham because I'm obsessed with these series!

I am over the moon to share that the app is officially live on both iOS and Android!!

We've quite literally poured our blood, sweat and (lots of) tears into the app development over the past 9 months and we could not be more thrilled for everyone to experience it!

We're still being indexed in app store search so you may have to scroll to find us, or type in Pagebound: Social Book Tracker. Here's links to iOS and Android: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pagebound-social-book-tracker/id6751526412 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.pagebound.app

There are quite a few improvements and new features in the app, including:

• Book Journeys (click the map icon on the book cards in your library and other user's library to see their posts, comments, and updates for a specific book)
• Quick access to "add to plan"
• Filtering your activity on profile
• Save posts
• upgraded Read Dates editing

This is the first release, so there will be many more additions and improvements to come. (PS for Android users: we're aware of two bugs related to library imports from Goodreads/Storygraph, and issues with editing read dates - these have already been resolved and are pending Google approval for release.)

We owe a huge thank you to our beta testers who worked diligently over the last month to report hundreds of bugs and help us get the app prepared for release. A huge round of applause to them.

We hope you love the app as much as we do; it definitely makes engaging on PB so much more convenient and fun. If you have a great experience with the app, we'd love if you'd consider supporting us through Pagebound Royalty; Lucy and I have worked for $0 over the past year to bring the app and website to fruition, and have been covering business costs with our savings accounts. Your contribution means we can continue to work full-time on Pagebound without influence from investors or advertisers, and keep Pagebound 100% for readers by readers. Thank you so much to all the Royalty who have already contributed; it truly means the world to us and keeps Pagebound online!

ok now go download the app and tell us what you think!

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

PS - leaving us a review in app stores also helps tremendously :)

I am going to be honest that I do not believe in alien visitors / abductions. I do believe the universe is vast enough that alien life forms likely exist, I just don't currently believe they are visiting our dying earth. That being said, I try to keep an open mind.

Loving the journey!

I noticed lately that I like books a lot more when they're character focused. Not that I cant get behind a good plot, but oftentimes when I read the blurb in fantasy/fictional books and they try to entice me with the actual world building and future conflict instead of dueling on the romance or the characters themselves, I get bored?

I would even enjoy said book, but even thinking about all the plot I'm suddenly getting tired and disinterested

I have a major interest in psychology and I end up reading a lot of contemporary stuff bc I care more about the characters psyche and personal journey than anything else (all my plot ratings on here have been a 3 at most lately 😭😭). So understanding someone, even if they're fictional, and seeing life through their eyes is more fun to me than any sort of action (If anyone has any supernatural/fantasy/whatever character focused stories I'll take them)

So I wanted to know what type of stories grab your attention the most and why

I was very happy to leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of the Android app, since I've been using it since the beta opened and absolutely adore it.

Edit to add: Here's the link in case you are having trouble finding it in the Play store (I did).

Further update: L&J are actually still waiting for Pagebound to be approved in the Canadian version of the Play Store, and I was likely able to sneak on in there because I was part of the beta program. Hopefully approval for all regions comes soon!

Since September is coming to an end (already?? oof), I wanted to check in with everyone and ask what your reading month has been like? Did you read more than usual or less? Have you started with the Fall readalong?

I read two books less than last month but still my “normal amount” you could say and even managed to read 3 out of the 5 fall readalong books!! and since I read Don’t Let the Forest In last year, I only have one left to go!

template for anyone who’d like to share some september stats:

books in total: favourite: least favourite: most surprising: longest vs shortest: october read to look forward to:

I’ll share my own stats in the comments as well 💗