sorry to get lecture-y, but we are not in a sanctioned reading competition. you set the rules for yourself and only for yourself. you can “count” anything you want. there is no correct answer that anyone else can give you to the question because your reasons for reading and your reasons for counting are specific to you.

the number of books you read has no bearing on anyone else and the number of books someone else reads has no bearing on you. 💕

How does everyone feel about forum posts that are just quotes with no context or discussion added?

When I pull a quote, it’s usually because I have an idea or a discussion point I want to pose to the forum, so I’ve always posted with context to the quote in some capacity, even if it’s just “This is such a great quote.”

Recently I’ve noticed a lot of posts in forums that are just quotes. My original inclination for those was to usually just scroll past. I thought they weren’t necessarily low-effort, but they just didn’t provide anything to start a discussion or prompt any thinking on my part.

I find that quotes that I don’t feel the need to discuss or add anything to I’d more likely put in a status update for the book. But then I thought about how those don’t really have spoiler filters and that if a quote was put in there it could be spoiling the book for others who haven’t read yet.

So now I’m torn and I’m curious what everyone else’s thoughts are on posting quotes without discussion in the forums vs. using status updates for quotes. What do you tend to do when you find a quote you want to remember?

(Edited for typo)

Hi fellow pagebounders!! I had a discussion with my dad the other day about how differently people read books and see reading as different things! We were discussing specifically reading with no emotions towards the characters and letting yourself feel things towards the characters. But then I remembered that many people to read books have to be able to self insert in the story or just be able to see themselves in the MC. And that just infuriates me (only people who are like: "I only read books where the MC is relatable.")*, because the whole point of reading books is getting new perspectives of life and being able to see the things from a different point of view. But I also get that reading a book with a MC that you relate to is really fun and comforting too. So my question is, what do you read for?

*P.S I do not want to come of as rude I just want to express my opinion if you only want to read books who have relatable main characters then do it it's your life.