What’s the youngest age this book can be read to? 😛 Just asking cause I would love to read it to my son but I haven’t read it yet myself and he is only 7… is it too soon??

we’ve all used a variety things to mark our place in books, right? like a receipt, a ponytail, or a wrapper—but what’s something really weird you’ve used before? i’d say my most random bookmark was an orange peel…it’s a long story, but let’s just say desperate times, desperate measures 😭😭

When I first started reading (around age 12), I mostly read whatever my mom could get for me. Later on, when I learned how to navigate the internet and use a computer, I started discovering books through blogs and reading forums. I slowly curated which blogs to follow, usually readers whose tastes matched mine, and I trusted that if they liked a book, I probably would too. Then I moved to Libby… and honestly? I’m not entirely sure how I kept finding things to read 😅 I don’t know if I just picked whatever showed up there or how I always had something lined up. That period feels like a weird blank in my memory. Content creators, Bookstagrammers, or BookTubers were never really my way of choosing books. I think I only follow one, and that’s because my mom recommended her to me after noticing the creator also loved Laura Gallego García (and I was like, okay, fair point). It was very much a “a book recommending a person” kind of thing. Still, I didn’t really read what she recommended… until last year, when I finally read the trilogy she wrote. I loved it and thought, okay, maybe I should actually listen to you. Yesterday I ended up binge-watching her YouTube videos and adding several of the books she mentioned that caught my attention to my tbr. But she’s really the only one.

Now with Pagebound, I’m loving the “emoji of the day” feature, it somehow keeps growing my Interested and my TBR status/shelves nonstop.

Another way, I think, was simply going to bookstores (there were only two in my city, with one only having the type of books i actually liked). So, I think that’s also how I started discovering books once I began using Libby 🤔

What about you? How has the way you discover new books changed over the years?

Does anyone else do the thing when you are reading a fantasy book where you skip over words, places and names? Like you know what is says but you're too lazy to read it properly so it's just "mhmhm" when you read it? I dont know if it's just me being a really lazy reader or not 😂

I have recently bought A LOT of these book annotation tab things, but I’m not really sure how I’m going to use them. I really want to start annotating my books because I thinks it seems so funny and interesting. And in my opinion the books look very pretty and more “personal” after. I just don’t really know how to do it, and what the different colors and categories should be. Like I get it if it’s a romance books and you can tab cute moments, spice scenes, quotes etc. But like how do I tab mystery books? Or fantasy and nonfiction?

I also don’t really get the point of annotating. I love to re-read so have have put some tabs in my absolute favorite scenes in some books that I want to read again. But I wonder if there’s another point of doing it? And how you guys do it. I would love to hear everything!