okay so i listened to the first murderbot and really liked it. read the ebook of this, found it meh. listened to the third and really liked it! so i’m returning to this on audiobook to give it a real try because i think Kevin R Free really brings Murderbot to life

The Winter Readalong picks are here! To see the selections (and the badge!) on web, head to the Discuss tab and click “View Winter Picks” by the Fall 2025 Readalong header. On the app, go to the Seasonal Readalong screen from the More menu (sorry app users, you’ll have to go to web to see the badge preview; I’ll add the badge in the next app update!) The Winter readalong starts December 1st and runs through the end of February. Recommend checking wait times at your library and planning ahead! (note: we are only doing 4 books instead of 5 starting this winter to make room for Special Events)

For our new users: Each season, Top Contributors vote on a selection of books to read as a community. You earn a special badge for reading one of the books and commenting or posting in the forum during the readalong.

Additional exciting updates! (NOTE: these are currently on web only, they will be available on the app with the next app release!)

MUTING BOOKS! yes yes yes you can now mute a book. When you mute a book, it removes all posts from that book’s forum from you Main feed, My Books feed, All Books feed, and Following feed. If someone you follow comments on a post, or posts in the forum, of a muted book you will not see it. You will however still see “reading status updates” from followers who engage with muted book. You can mute a book from the “...” menu on a post, or from the Book Status modal. To unmute a book, go to the Settings page (gear icon on your profile) and click “Manage Muted Books”

You can now mark a book as “owned” and filter your library shelves by "owned" books! While it works perfectly well to have a custom “owned” shelf, a separate toggle was highly requested (mini tip: you can add books to custom shelves right from the book status modal - you do not need to search for & add them from the shelf page).

Feed updates: we removed TBR books from your My Books feed and Main Feed entirely. We know how sensitive spoilers can be, and folks have different definitions of what constitutes a spoiler, so this is the safest option. We will have a way to customize this in the future if you prefer to see them. We also removed any activity related to the Pagebound Club from your main and following feeds. The club still exists as it always has for those that enjoy engaging, but for those that would rather opt-out, you won’t be forced to see PB club content in your feed. You will still have activity items on your profile from any Pagebound Club activity; it just will not be pushed to your followers.

For our app users: if you’d like to mute books now before the update is released, just log in on web, mute the books, and both your web and app feeds will be updated. You can do the same for “owned” books, however the filter won’t appear until the next update.

Thanks everyone and happy reading! Jennifer & Lucy

Idc if it's toxic or healthy friendship, a duo, a trio a 10 person clique. It can be a lion, a witch and a wardrobe for all I care. Hit me.

Edit: It is done, my friends. You can find ✨️💖✨️The power of friendship✨️💖✨️ as a list right now. Thank you for all your recommendations and nice comments 🫶 This really is the best place on the internet

Does anyone listen to bookish Podcasts? Or watch Booktube?

If so, include your recs in the comments please. I want to get into podcasts and YouTube videos but I want to know which ones are good.

I like romance mainly, and fantasy, but I also love a good yap session and reading activities and challenges as well as learning about different genres too, so recommend away.

Bonus if the podcast has a video version (I like seeing them 😂).

Thanks for the help!

EDIT: THANKS FOR THE HELP! I WILL COMPILE THESE INTO A LIST AND HOPEFULLY MAKE IT AVAILABLE TO YOU ALL

What tracking apps does everyone use? I’m thinking about getting rid of a few of mine and just using Pagebound and Goodreads. I’d love to know your thoughts

Idc if it's toxic or healthy friendship, a duo, a trio a 10 person clique. It can be a lion, a witch and a wardrobe for all I care. Hit me.

Edit: It is done, my friends. You can find ✨️💖✨️The power of friendship✨️💖✨️ as a list right now. Thank you for all your recommendations and nice comments 🫶 This really is the best place on the internet

SMALL EDIT: I am new to the platform and just putting ideas I've had out there, to see if anyone has had similar ones and I'm also curious if they have cool ideas. But if it's already something that has been mentioned, apologies 💜

I have been loving this app, as evidenced by my love of contributing to the forums, but I have a few ideas of ways the app can be even better, and I am curious to know what people think.

I don’t know if I am bringing up things that have already been mentioned, but I decided to put all my thoughts into one post.

• I wish there was a difference between followers and close friends. Like, some people I follow because I like their reading taste. And others I follow because they are my actual friends (irl) and I want to see what they are up to. Those two do not have the same priority to me. I feel like a few features could benefit from a close friends type distinction. For example, when I enter a quest, to see if I want to join it, I see all people I follow that are in the quest (which is great!). But I wish I knew which books (specifically) my friends have read, without having to click on individual titles (like maybe there can be their little icon that appears in the corner of the title in the quest list, to say this is something my friend has read). Basically, I just wish there was a distinction between friend and following (kind of like how Insta has stories for all and those for close friends) and that there were features that applied to friends that don’t to others that you follow (like small extra features).
• I think a drop down tab on the Title Page for TWs that Pagebound users can populate could be cool to give people a list of things to look out for in a book.
• It would be great, at some point, if users can make their own quests for others to join, without being a Top Contributor. I think there are some super cool quests, but I have a few ideas of types of quests I would love to see that are perhaps less aligned with trendy books.
• I love the forum where we can all react to what we are reading, but I think a chat feature for one on one and small group chatting would also be fun.

Curious what other people think :) These are not the most well articulated ideas, but I was curious if other people had cool feature ideas or want to build off any of mine. I am curious what fun ideas everyone has!! ❤️

Wake up, go on Threads and see that there is another KU boycott planned 😭. And as an indie author in KU, I'm tired

This year there have been so many boycotts that a lot of my author friends are having to quit because they can't afford to publish anymore. An author I know was on 6 figures and is now down to 2 figures this year, which is a drastic drop. Myself personally, I'm wondering how I can publish my next book because my page reads are at a record low, I've been earning 50 cents some months despite doing everything to market 😅

KU subscriptions go into a pool of money that is distributed to every single author in the program. And lack of subscriptions means that pool gets smaller which affects the page read pay out.

Being an indie author in KU means we're locked into strict exclusivity agreements. We can't go where the readers are. This year Amazon let KU authors be in public ebook libraries while enrolled, but KU still makes up 85% of an authors income. Many KU authors don't know how to get into ebook libraries as it's not Amazon distributing it, so not every book is going to move over. And yes indie authors do get paid for library copies 👀

It's not easy to go Wide (outside of Amazon). KU and Wide have different audiences, it can take years to take off by being Wide and can be expensive running ads.

This isn't a pity post but just a couple facts about KU and the impacts a boycott has on authors.

If you want to participate in the boycott, then boycott all you want. There is no way to stop it happening, obviously.

It's just a very tiring time in the author world with a lot of uncertainty about the future

All of your posts on this book are giving me FOMO. I'll get my copy ASAP and try to read it right after my current read, because I didn't spend countless hours reading omegaverse manhwas for nothing!