Greetings, dear PBees!

I just wanted to see whether anyone's interested in doing a buddy read with me for The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún by Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien Tolkien. I thought about maybe starting in june and then end it at the end of august. Though I'm open to other preferences for the timeline. Nothing is set in stone yet.

Let me know your thoughts!

Heyhey!

I've got a Kobo which of course includes being able to sideload books, and was wondering where everyone gets their ebooks? I'm in europe though so any domestic only sites won't work for me, so I'm hoping some of you might have tips for international sites that are not Amazon😅 Their ebooks aren't sideloadable anyways. Also not Kobo as I already use it but not everything I want to read is on there. Ofc I'm familiar with the seven seas but I prefer not having to use it if I can avoid it out of fairness.

Sadly most of the domestic sites here you need the sites own app to read a book, can't even download the book without having their really stupid adfilled app🥲

Hi everyone, we have some community updates to share. Pagebound has grown significantly since the app launched in October, and to support this larger group we're revamping our Quest creation and community recognition programs.

We have decided to sunset the Top Contributor program. We started the program in the early days of Pagebound to recognize active community members and help build the culture. TC's created Quests, welcomed new users, answered questions, and helped us behind the scenes with beta testing, user interviews, and feedback. We are so grateful to the 80+ TC's who were crucial in helping shape the platform & culture as we built the v1 of so many features.

To make Quest creation and community recognition more democratic and community-oriented, we will have two paths for Quest creation:

• We will continue the community-voted List initiative, where each quarter Royalty members nominate Lists to be turned into Quests, and the entire PB community votes on the nominated lists. We will have 3 winners per quarter for a total of 12 list-to-quests a year.
• We will start a new program, community-voted Member of the Month (exact language TBD). Each month starting in the Fall, the entire PB community can nominate a user they believe embodies PB values. The user with the most nominations will be awarded a badge and the ability to create a Quest.

We will have more details on this new program when voting nears :)

Editing to add: Former members of the Top Contributor program who had Quests in-progress will be able to release those Quests. We have not put a time limit on this since curating a Quest takes a ton of work, and many hours have already been invested in these Quests. You'll continue to see some final Quests created by former TCs be released over the next months.

App + Product Updates The Discover People section got an upgrade: at the top, you'll see a Featured My Taste book that rotates daily, similar to the Featured Emoji. We highlight active users with that book in their My Taste section

We also fixed some small edge-case bugs related to progress updates + tracking. Reminder: you need to track your progress to see daily pages/minutes updated in your stats! So if you start & finish a book in the same day, you'll need to track progress still to see that graph updated (this is because there are some folks who don't track daily, and if we auto-tracked, stats would look very incorrect).

Thank you everyone for keeping this community thriving, PB wouldn't be what it is today without everyone's support & engagement. We can't wait to recognize new community members with these new initiatives, and are so excited to see what Quests y'all cook up. And of course, a special thank you to our Top Contributors who invested so much of their free time, love, and energy into this community. A round of applause for the (retired) TCs 👏👏👏

Happy Reading, Jennifer + Lucy 💜💙

Happy Tuesday my big, beautiful Boundling brains!! It's the time of the week to share what you learned about yourselves, others, or the world through your reading this week! Whether it's a quick piece of trivia, a deep dive, or a sudden realization - all are welcome here!!

Not gunna lie - personally my brain is mush from a rollercoaster of a week ending on the high of the quests dropping yesterday so I feel like I can barely remember what I read last week let alone any fun facts haha but I'm excited to learn from y'all!

We’ve described our books in 3 emojis.

Now, sum yourself up in three emojis! (And feel free to explain your choices if you want, this doubles as a great “get to know you” method too!)

What are you into playing right now? What is your current read? Do the genres even remotely overlap?

I am so interested in the intersection of gaming and current reads when it comes to preferred genres!

Context: I work at a climbing gym as a routesetter, so I and my coworkers put the holds on the walls that people climb. My gym recently adopted the use of this one app where we upload our routes and boulders that we set so people can log their sends in the gym and rate the climbs. A week ago, my coworkers and I were lamenting the app because one customer consistently rates everything 3 stars, and it’s bringing our gym’s rating down. Like, to the point of the higher-ups scratching their heads at it.

It got us on the topic of ratings about books. My boss said 3 stars isn’t a bad rating, it’s average, although most people likely wouldn’t think the same way when looking for a route to climb in the gym. I said when I rate book, 3 stars is generally a decent rating. It may not be a book that I loved or that I would say was for me, but I would still likely recommend a 3-star book to a friend. Another coworker agreed with that sentiment.

This whole conversation got me thinking: at what point do you start to consider a book “bad”? As in, when would you stop recommending a book to someone? Everyone has different metrics they use, and I’m curious to know everyone’s thoughts. For me, I start thinking a book is bad around 2-2.5 stars.