I've seen a few posts where the audience is assumed to be American and it made me curious about how many users are actually American? Objectively speaking it makes sense that the majority is but I wish there was a statistic for it (just out of curiosity).

How do you guys find new books to read?? I don’t really trust tiktok or social media because the ones that go viral aren’t for me. Sometimes I scroll on Libby for available books just to try something new. I will also always find new books to read when I go to the bookstore or the library, since I like to wander. Now that I’m on PB, it’s so easy to discover and research new books and I love it!!

I joined PB a couple of weeks ago and was so active at first while reading good books! I’ve now been stuck slogging through The Atlas Complex for over a week and have stopped being acting on here so much while doing so 😢

Has anyone else experienced something similar?

(I have posted an apology but wanted to leave this up as a reminder to myself and others) I see a lot of people on here talking about audio books and counting these as reads towards their goals. First I want to say I have absolutely no issue with this but for some reason I can't bring myself to count audio books towards my reading goal as to me it doesn't feel like I've truly 'read' it. Maybe it's because I'm constantly listening to media (I sleep with podcasts on and listen on the way too and from the train station) but I guess it doesn't feel like I worked for it and kind of like 'cheating'. Wondering what people's thoughts are (again I am not putting anyone down for audio books this is just a personal thought of mine)

Does anyone have a recommendation for an audiobook that sounds nice? I tried to listen to one before but I didn’t like voice actor and with university starting to become more demanding I feel like it’s easier for me to listen to some audiobooks cuz idw get in a slump. I don’t mind any genres. But for those who read audiobooks, do you have any first recommendations?

I was just talking to my brother-in-law, and he told me he wrote a book. I was happy for him! That's an amazing accomplishment, and he's written books before so I knew it was something he enjoyed doing.

That is...until he told me that while his ideas were all his, he used AI to "pad out the chapters". His rationalization was that he would disclose that he used it, and that so many Amazon best-sellers are all AI-generated, and he was using it as an aide. While I think that him disclosing is the right thing, I wanted to address with him how AI use is criticized in literature today. He can still publish it, but he should understand that there is a specific type of criticism he would receive without even reading his book.

So, I would like a little input from people who are also in this bookish world. How IS AI viewed in literature?

Apologies in advance for the goofy question, but what's the meta on figuring out who to follow on Pagebound? I've only been here for a few days and I'm struggling with this a bit. Like, what's the etiquette? Is it weird to follow people without interacting with them first? Is it appropriate to just follow the other folks engaging with the books you like, or on the quests you join etc?

I'm very aware I'm overthinking this massively lol

ETA: Thank you so much everyone! This was incredibly helpful and you're all very lovely ♡

everyone's always talking about and romanticizing new mlm romance books, shows, and movies (which is amazing and they deserve it) but I wish there people talked about wlw the same way. same thing with other sexualities and identities. I'd be nice if the media appreciated it all instead of just focusing on one

this is just my opinion

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Hey y'all 👋🏻

It’s time for Who’s Who Wednesday where every Wednesday we introduce ourselves and make new friends. This is possibly part 14.

Jadelovesbooks originally started this. These were some of my favorite posts to read through so I'd like to bring it back if that's cool (or if these were ended on purpose, let me know and I'll remove this).

If you participated in any of the times before, you don’t have to introduce yourself again but you can share some different facts about you, an opinion you have, or how your week is going.

If you’re new, introduce yourself!

I’ll go first.

My name is Wibbily. I'm getting back into the habit of going to the gym (I had my gallbladder removed last month so I've been healing up). I'm sore, but honestly I can tell that my mental health is already getting a boost from it so I'm excited to keep going 💪🏻