I’m just curious, as there are so many cute icon/avatars to choose from… why did you pick your current one? Do you change it based off your read? Change it with the season? What drew you to be your little icon?!👀✨💭

Or what's the average number, either way! As a mood reader, I always take way too many books with me because I never know which one I'll want to read when the time comes!

I'm traveling to see family for a few days (3 days plus 1 day on each side for travel) and I've packed:

• 3 paper books (2 for work)
• Just added 11 ARCs to my Kobo (in addition to the 3 I still need to read and the countless other books I own on there)
• And I just downloaded 3 audiobooks

Will I get through one of these? Maybe lol. But a reader's gotta have options! I used to be more reasonable about packing books, especially since ARCs expire and physical books are heavy, but as I get closer to burnout and making decisions gets harder, I end up with way too many. What's your absurd book packing habit?

I'm kind of curious about how others rate their books when they finish them. I love how ratings are all personal opinions 😊. How do you all decide on the start rating of your reads?

For example, my rating style is: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - I had an amazing time, loved the writing and spend time thinking about it for weeks. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Had a really good time reading but the writing could be better or I couldn't connect with the characters. ⭐⭐⭐ - Pretty good. Was able to finish the book but could be better. ⭐⭐ - I finished but didn't really enjoy it. ⭐ - I tried but it's really not for me.

I just realised that while I read I often don't eat and if I eat is usually snacks not that healthy. What's your go to snack when you read? Do you change the snack if you read with an ereader or with a physical book? Like if I'm reading a physical book I only eat things that wouldn't stain my finger or the book but if I'm reading with my Kobo I eat only with the hand that doesn't touch the screen. When you read do you have to prepare the "station" so when you start you don't have to move? If so do you prepare also different drinks?

Sometimes i wish my tbr list had a shuffle button so when i struggle to pick what to read next it would do it for me🙈 Do you guys ever feel like that? Would you want something like that on here? What else would you want to see on this glorious app?🫶

I'm not PB Royalty so I can't officially request this, but I'm probably not the only one who thinks this is important: I wish the translator was mentioned alongside the author on a translated book's page! I'm pretty sure that info is in the book's data (as it usually autofills when I add a book on storygraph through its ISBN), but even if it'd be too much work right now to add it for every version, I think it should at least appear for books that were originally NOT written in English but only have English pages on here, or a main English page that's used in all the quests/lists (in that last case it's often bc there are separate entries for the English translation & the original, which makes sense to allow for separate forums for each language and to avoid crowding an author's page). Paradise Rot and Lobster are examples of this, as are the many works of translated Japanese, Chinese and Korean fiction that are frequently promoted. A translator worked hard so everyone could exchange these quotes in English on the feed, and I think they should be credited!

It would also make it easier to identify a book as an English translation when it's the version that's most often circulated around, or even the first one that pops up when searching the author's name. In addition to the question of respecting and highlighting an original work and its translation, it's nice to quickly know if what you're looking at is the original work (which is not necessarily obvious just from the author's name) or if you can take the time to decide which translation you want to pick if there's potentially more than one you could read. (obviously i usually double check on my own on other platforms, but I get the bulk of my new recs from here and it's mainly (by the hundreds) original English-language works since that's the main cultural base and their publishing industries are PROLIFIC, so it'd be nice to know for sure that something's actually an English translation while i'm quickly making the plans to procure the books, instead of having to basically look at an author's name and go "hmm doesn't sound Anglo-Saxon I better check" individually when I'm organising hundreds of books 😭😭😭😭 it's doable even if inconvenient but I have to say it does make me feel like a bit of a border agent ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ)

Anyway in the meantime maybe there could be a way for users to update the info on a book's page ourselves? That would perhaps mean that someone on the other side would have to approve the modification, but I don't think people would massively go around adding fake translators to books.... It doesn't even have to be a clickable link like for the original author (for the sake of feasibility only, bc to be clear that translator DID write an entire book in the language u just read 🙏)

idk, what do you guys think, am I the only one who cares about this, did the staff already talk about this in the past, etc ? I checked the roadmap and didn't see any similar requests, but if a royalty member wanted to bring it up to them i'd be eternally grateful! translation is hard and often thankless work, please acknowledge us at least 🥲

Happy Friday, fellow fiction fans! (I love alliteration).

Drop the first line or two of the book you're currently reading, and let fellow Boundlings try to guess the title and author. If no one gets it by the end of the day, come back and reveal the answer!

A few friendly guidelines: • Keep it to the first line or two only (no spoilers!) • Don’t include the title or author right away • Feel free to add a hint later if people get stuck

I know a lot of people will say JKR, Colleen Hoover or other very big problematic authors for obvious reasons, but if there're any more niche ones or weird reasons why you can't or refuse to read them, tell me.

Mine would be Mia Ballard bc whether the allegations that she is assisted with A.I are true or false, I saw the counter of how many times the word 'sharp' was in Shy Girl and....I cannot handle that.