The new app version, 1.1.92, is available on iOS and Android! This includes a host of bug fixes and improvements, which I will list for curious minds at the end of the post, but we have 4 major new product updates:

Audiobook rating: For any book for which you marked the format as "audiobook" or "tandem", there is a new Audiobook sub-rating, which also appears on the Book page. This is your rating for the audiobook experience, and can help you decide which books to read on audio! As we gather more audiobook rating data, we can do interesting things like suggest top audiobooks.

Add a book to the Pagebound database: The process for adding a new book to the PB database has changed due to some unexpected restrictions from Goodreads. We used to be able to add books simply by dropping in the book's Goodreads URL, but now we have a manual entry form. We always intended to have a manual entry option, as often Goodreads data isn't great and we now have the flexibility to add books that are not on Goodreads. When adding a new book, please take care to read the instructions!! This is very important to keep the integrity of our database.

Genre Tags: With this new "add book" process, we have also introduced a Tag system for books. Right now, we are collecting Main Type (fiction, non fiction), Book type (novella, novel, essay collection, etc), Audience (adult, ya, etc) and Main Genre (Fantasy, Biography, etc). These tags are already available on the book page, however we only have data for newly added books at the moment! We will be collecting this data and adding more robust tags for subgenre and themes in the coming weeks. Really excited about this!! We can do a lot of cool things once we have genre data, like show pages dedicated to each subgenre and have genre stats.

Librarian Program: With the new manual book entry system and our new ability to tag genres (and soon: series!!), we are rolling out a Librarian Program. Librarians will verify user-entered book data, help us collect genre and series data for existing books, clean up existing book entries, and help deduping efforts (where we have more than 1 listing for a single book). Soon, we will have a way for users to flag missing or incorrect book info, which Librarians will also respond to. This is a volunteer program and an integral part of building Pagebound -- if you are interested in becoming a volunteer, you can check out the application here!

Thank you for you patience and understanding as we roll out these new processes!

As for additional updates in this release:

• new image system that delivers & loads book cover images quicker
• more reliable comment posting / liking / upvoting when internet connection is weak on app
• new sorting options for follower/following lists
• Discuss page shows a review feed instead of the All Book Posts feed
• you can use markdown in List descriptions
• quite a few other small quality of life improvements, check out the Roadmap "released" section if you're curious!

Thanks everyone and happy reading, Jennifer + Lucy 💜💙

Hello everyone!! Just popping in here to remind everyone, but especially my fellow european boundlings to take extra care of yourself during this very extreme heat wave rn and the next days ‼️

And i don't mean drinking enough water, and sitting in the shade of a tree. I mean stay inside during the day, don't take the temperatures lightly and push yourself to work out or go for a run, try to reschedule them to the early morning hours or later in the evening if necessary. Cancel appointments or dates if you don't feel well. Try to minimise your daily activity to the bare minimum and only things necessary! Heatwave's should get treated like s snowstorm, bc it's nothing else than an extreme of the other end of the scale.

The temperatures we're currently experiencing are seriously no joke, people DIE bc of heatstrokes every day. People in central europe are not used to this conditions, our daily life is designed for colder temperatures, our buildings don't have integrated cooling systems and most private households don't have AC. These temperatures in central europe feel different from the same temperatures in other usual warm countries and regions.

Take care everyone!! 🫂☀️

Europe is currently getting hit by an extreme weather situation, scientists call "the omega situation". Warm air masses are getting firmly trapped between two cold air masses on each side, which leads to a very stable and long holding heat over central europe atm. These week the temperatures are rising over 40°C (104°F), which is a new heat record documented for these time of the year.

I'm wondering how many quest badges the person with the most quest badges has. Is there a leader board? Am I thinking too competitively 😅? How many badges do YOU have? I currently have 23 (counting my level badge and read-alongs) .

For the past year, I've been thinking about a book that I read as a young teen but I haven't been able to remember enough about it. I could only remember a couple vague details at a time.... fantasy girl, antiheroine, dark powers, not nice dad, a prince? Sometimes I kept getting details mixed up with Veronica Roth's Carve the Mark, so I kept getting confused.

I FINALLY FOUND IT JUST NOW! I finally put enough details together and had enough luck in a google search to realize I've been looking for The Young Elites by Marie Lu 😭😭

Has this ever happened to you?? Tell me about a book that you forgot about, didn't remember enough details to ask for help, but finally found again 🤧

"Bubbles once bit a cop."

Me and Bubbles: ACAB!

"He asked if it was Bebe to a picture of Trader Joe."

All of their names have me chuckling lmao.