Introducing: PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈 QUEST

I wanted to make a little side quest with additional books added to my pretty stacked June TBR - utilized KU and my ever growing bookshelf - but here’s what I hope to read for Pride! 💜 = both June TBR/Pride Quest

💜 Knitting Needles by 💜 Open Throat by Henry Hoke 💜 A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon 💜 Tough Guy by Rachel Reid 💜 Cherry Blossoms After Winter Vol 3 by Bamwoo 💜 I Hear The Sunspot Vol 2 by Yuki Fomino 💜 Wet Sand Vol 3 by Doyak How to Fake it in Society by KJ Charles Spoiled Milk Avery Curran Is This a Cry for Help by Emily R Austin The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan The Grand Deception of Benedict Blackmoor by Gaia Tate Girl’s Girl by Sonia Feldman Isn’t it Obvious by Rachel Runya Katz Local Heavens by KM Fajardo

I have so many Aardvark books unread! They are what’s contributing to about 1/3 of the list!

What are you reading first Pride?!

Addendum: Yes, Open Throat was so good and one of my favorite reads of the year!! I’m adding it to my re-read pile so I can annotate it! I immersive read it and it was sublime!

I love that Pagebound allows you to rate overall vs plot, characters, etc. I always struggle with what is worth 1 star vs 5. I hardly ever re-read books or DNF them.

How do you rate books? Do you have a book you can’t get over? What will you always recommend, no matter what someone may be interested in

I was so interested when I saw the tiktok advertising this as a goodreads replacement. But one of the main things I used goodreads for was to find authors/series. it was useful to just click a subtext with (series 1) or something and see all the books in that. or click on an author and see a somewhat useful table/page of their works. Is there something like that planned or discussed anywhere?

cheers!

For me, I used to be a hardcover, physical copy only person. Paperback if I had no other choice. Then I started reading fanfic and that you can only read via internet unless you printed it out. So, I got used to reading on the computer. (I was reading fanfic before we had internet on cellphones.)

Then when smartphones came out, I realized that I loved the convenience of reading on my phone, rather than toting a physical book around. (Especially since I'm very protective of my physical copies and don't want to damage them.) So my main method of reading nowadays is via the Kindle app or my e-readers. I still have my physical copies as well, because I am also a book collector.

I have yet to adventure into audio books because I don't believe that I would retain any of the story just by listening as I'm easily distracted. I might could do with immersive reading though. However, I have heard that not all narrators are created equal, so I'm leery about that.

So I'm curious on how you prefer to read. Physical, digital, audio? All three? Another way that I haven't mentioned?

I know some readers can be a little pretentious about physical vs digital vs audio and whether some don't count as reading, but I'm of the firm belief that it doesn't matter how, just so long as you do read. If you can't read, you can't learn. If you can't learn, then you can't grow.

Hello dear Pagebound users! I am a spanish reader 🇪🇦🌝and this morning I entered through a small rabbit hole about Libby. As you may already know, it's a reading app that allows you to borrow books. In Spain we have Ebiblio and Efilm. The thing is that is only available (mainly) for people in the US, Canada, Australia and UK.

Some foreigners are lying in order to create an account on this platform, thinking it's a better alternative to pirating books. It's not. Everytime Libby "buys" a book they are buying a limited number of licenses. Once all the licenses are used, the book stop being available on the platform (and they have to pay again to buy more licenses). That licenses are being paid with the taxes of those countries, and if a lot of randoms that are not from there start reading everything, the catalog will disappear in the blink of an eye. Is not fair for anyone. If you are doing this, you are committing fraud against a non-profit platform.

Pd: If you guys have more recs of apps/plataforms to borrow and read books you can recommend them in the comments ⬇️

I just had the insanely jarring realization that honeymoons are a thing and I completely forgot about them when I set my username. I’ve always used “ golden moon” something as gaming usernames and just thought honey moon was a cute variation 🫠

This made me start wondering if I was similarly misreading anyone else’s usernames and what some of them meant. So while I think of a new username, I wanted to ask everyone what’s the story behind your username? 👀

Edit: The rebrand has been done 😌

I read without reading the plot summary, and my dumbass self thought it was about zombie apocalypse. And I was freaking waiting for the zombie to arrive in the story🥲. I even thought mentioning the apocalypse was a taboo.