Hey y'all, Resident yapper here and just wanted to say I'm so excited to see so many new folks chatting books!! As someone who doesn't have many around me that read, pagebound has been such an awesome way to get my thoughts out and talk with others about some of my favorite books! I'm Devin, Father of 2 amazing little girls, husband, book reviewer, and software engineer. I live in CT and i'm 35 years old. I love SFF mostly but willing to dabble in anything. I run bromantasy.com which is a review site attempting to bridge the genre gap for Romantasy and SFF in general. My favorite books are Golden Son (Red Rising Saga), The Will of the Many, Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass), Spear Cuts Through Water, and Howling Dark (Sun Eater). Would love to know a little more about you all, please practice good internet safety when responding!! Again welcome to Pagebound, super glad you've joined this amazing community and look forward to chatting more about your favorite books! 😊

Meaning, you can’t find it at any local bookstore or public library? I feel like this happens to me all the time. There are a lot of little gems on my list that once I find them, I feel so excited because I’ve had to search or wait for them for so long. Right now I can’t find: - Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith - The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza - All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology by Circe Moskowitz I’m curious about what other elusive books other people might be looking for 🕵️‍♀️📖

I’ve started pre-selecting a monthly tbr for myself this year and with finding this wonderful community, I’m curious how other people pick the books they’d like to read during a month? Or if you don’t, how do you select what to read next? I try to pick a mix of books that have been on my tbr for a while and new books just to keep things different but series also cause a bit of an issue with that system 😂

Do you consider yourselves harsh raters or overly generous ones? :) What's your rating system? I personally never go under 2 stars because if it's that bad I simply dnf. 2, I actively did not like it. Probably only finished it because it had some cool concept and I kept hoping it would fix itself before the end. 3 is okay. I don't have a massive issue about it, but it didn't grab me. 4, I liked it. It was good or really good (that's why we need half and 1/4 starts! Thanks Pagebound) with minor complaints. I feel like it's my most awarded rating 5, it was amazing/it made me FEEL THINGS. Either I had no issue whatsoever or I felt so emotionally involved I didn't mind them, regardless of the "quality" of the book

If you're someone who DNFs books, what's one of the silliest or pettiest reasons you've stopped reading? I'll go first with some of mine: - The author kept repeating the same words/phrase, I couldn't stop noticing it and after 4 chapters I'd had enough - The MMC had the same name as an ex and I wasn't about to read a whole book where he gets a happy ending - They didn't use any punctuation marks at all Please tell me I'm not the only one who abandons books that should be interesting to me for ridiculous reasons?

Hello Pagebound team! Im really loving (and hyperfixating on) the site hehe!! I have some UX feedback and ideas - hope that’s okay. None of this is a criticism, obviously, just very excited about what youre doing! I’m a mobile user btw! -would love a back button, so I get to the previous landing page much easier (rather than jumping around different anchor links, or going back too far) -would love an optional pronoun field that’s separate to the bios! 😊✨ -it would be soooo handy if we could filter TBRs/all shelves (eg by genre, mood, etc) - Storygraph does this and this is one of the main reasons I use it -listing genres with books would be very helpful (and make the experience more accessible!) -Storygraph also have “moods” for books - I suppose this is similar to emojis (which i love! So cute and creative!), but the meaning is more objective/concrete. I’m a massive mood reader and it’s sooo handy to find books based off of these moods. This is another main reason i use Storygraph! -Similarly, would be great to have community-added CWs (especially as someone who avoids certain subjects). (Another reason I still use Storygraph hahah - but would love to ditch in favour of Pagebound) -page numbers alongside books are also really valuable to me! Helps me decide whether i want to read a book (now or generally) -is there an option to update ur percentage privately/without adding thoughts? It’s quite motivating to see your progress, and would have me returning to the site (even more hahaha) -would love a DM option so we can speak to other users more in depth/more regularly without going to another app! -it would also be fun to “recommend a book” to another user - perhaps a button on the book page? And this get sent as a notif to said user? -when it comes to lists (my main Pagebound hyperfixation, omg), it would be great if we can edit the book order, and even add notes (eg disclaimers, further details) under each title. 🫧💖🌞🪷 Thank you for reading. I hope this is helpful (and would love to be involved if you’re ever looking for more testers lol). Again, having lots of fun on here and can’t waitnto see what else you do. Good luck!! Maya x

Hey y'all, Resident yapper here and just wanted to say I'm so excited to see so many new folks chatting books!! As someone who doesn't have many around me that read, pagebound has been such an awesome way to get my thoughts out and talk with others about some of my favorite books! I'm Devin, Father of 2 amazing little girls, husband, book reviewer, and software engineer. I live in CT and i'm 35 years old. I love SFF mostly but willing to dabble in anything. I run bromantasy.com which is a review site attempting to bridge the genre gap for Romantasy and SFF in general. My favorite books are Golden Son (Red Rising Saga), The Will of the Many, Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass), Spear Cuts Through Water, and Howling Dark (Sun Eater). Would love to know a little more about you all, please practice good internet safety when responding!! Again welcome to Pagebound, super glad you've joined this amazing community and look forward to chatting more about your favorite books! 😊

Hi everyone! Newbie here but already really enjoying Pagebound 💕 Like the title says I'm mostly into fantasy, dark academia and historical fiction, but I do love a good litfic and I'd love to expand into other genres. My recent favourites are the Little Thieves trilogy, Babel, Blood Over Bright Haven, Ninth House duology and Betty so if any of those titles are your jam I'd love to talk about them 🫂 Looking forward to making friends on here 😊 And would love to hear any recs in any genre really 👀

Do you consider yourselves harsh raters or overly generous ones? :) What's your rating system? I personally never go under 2 stars because if it's that bad I simply dnf. 2, I actively did not like it. Probably only finished it because it had some cool concept and I kept hoping it would fix itself before the end. 3 is okay. I don't have a massive issue about it, but it didn't grab me. 4, I liked it. It was good or really good (that's why we need half and 1/4 starts! Thanks Pagebound) with minor complaints. I feel like it's my most awarded rating 5, it was amazing/it made me FEEL THINGS. Either I had no issue whatsoever or I felt so emotionally involved I didn't mind them, regardless of the "quality" of the book

As the title suggest, I rate what I call a good book at a 3.0 and wanted to clarify that a 3.0 is a good book in my opinion, an enjoyable book, that does what it does well but doesn't do anything spectacular and might have some minor issues. Wanted to share my rating system here in case anyone was interested in what I consider each level to be rated at overall. Disclaimer I rate on a . 25 system and will round for the half points Overall Score The final rating is based on all the other scores used as well as the overall delivery, character work, and plot ⭐ 1.00-1.75 - Not recommended for most readers, objective issues around writing, editing, pacing etc. ⭐⭐ 2.00-2.75 - May appeal to dedicated fans of the subgenre, usually also has some objective issues ⭐⭐⭐ 3.00-3.75 - Solid read with strengths that outweigh weaknesses, a good read that might have some minor flaws ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.00-4.75 - Excellent book that stands out in the genre, usually also has objectively good writing ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.00 - Exceptional work that sets a new standard, good writing, character work, really transcends or redefines the genre By no means do I expect people to rate on the same scale I do, but did want to clarify 3 stars is a good book in my personal opinion. Would love to hear what you think about my scale and how you work out your own personal scale 😊

I just joined Pagebound and I'm loving everything so far! My one thing is that I really miss Storygraph's feature of being able to rate books as .25 or .75 stars in addition to .5. For me, there's a big difference between these three and what they mean when I'm rating. I was wondering if this is something that might be considered?

anyone have a MASTERPIECE recommendation? just wanna get outta my reading slump tho