"If you marry this man... You'll become his smiling shadow.".... "I thought I wanted the world, Mama. But I've seen the world now, and I want no part in it."

I think this is SO common. For example, just today, I saw someone's post admitting they were wrong to vote for Trump and that they were deconstructing their religion and politics and apologized for the harm they cause. The comments were abysmal. "Anyone with half a brain knew this from the beginning" etc... We write people off as stupid, unkind, selfish, hateful, etc... without EVER offering space to talk as a human. Then, if they start to question their beliefs, who will they have to go to? If you discredit the work they made to widen their horizons, then you just shove them back into their echo chamber. If they feel like they won't be welcomed or accepted once leaving their echo chamber then THEY WILL NEVER LEAVE. It's a vicious cycle.

Hi all! New app version (1.1.93) is now available on both iOS and Android. This includes mostly quality of life updates, some small feature enhancements, and bug fixes - web was also updated! Here's a quick rundown of what changed:

Search Improvements: When you search on the app, you can navigate back to your search results. On web, searching in "Browse Lists" and "Browse Quests" also saves your search results.

Search by Emoji: This beloved feature is now available on the app! You can find a link in Search. This got a design upgrade on web as well - you can now search specifically for books, lists, or quests by Emoji and see the total results for each category.

Updated Emojis: The emoji list was updated on app to include newer emojis

Additional badge slots for Royalty: Royalty can now display up to 12 badges on their profiles (warning: if the app is not updated yet and you display more than 6, the badges will run off the screen!) EDIT: was made aware the badges will run off the screen when viewing someone else's profile. They will look correct when viewing your own. I'm sorry, silly bug from me! Will put up an "emergency" update in next few days.

New ways to add a book: In a shocking turn of events, we are able to offer the Add Missing Book via Goodreads Link feature again. You now have 3 options when adding a new book to the Pagebound database: Goodreads link, ISBN/ASIN manual form, non-ISBN manual form

Block List in Settings: under Account & Settings, you can see all the users you've blocked and manage your block list.

Update Reading Progress remembers your update method: that's a mouthful, but basically if you update your reading progress using %, you'll be defaulted to % the next time you log progress (or pages or minutes, whatever tracking method you choose)

Confirmation popup when clicking I'm Finished: In the progress update modal, there's a confirmation step before finishing the book when you click I'm Finished (for everyone who was accidentally clicking that and messing up their reads!)

What's next on the roadmap? We're working on making editing your reading data more accessible and intuitive (think: updating your start/finish date when you click the "Reading" and "Finished" statuses, editing format and length in the reading status modal) After that, we have major projects related to Quests (Quest dashboards 👀) and a huge Library revamp (I'm calling this "Library V2")

Thank you everyone for keeping this community thriving! We'll be back in a few weeks with the next update.

Happy reading, Jennifer + Lucy

Lucy and I were going through the Roadmap today (for those that don't know, we have a public roadmap to show what we're working on - you can find it in the "more" menu on the app in the top left of the navbar, or linked in the footer on web) and realized we've had a few requests for quarter star ratings. We said we'd let the community weigh in and make a decision, but the feedback thus far has been split. So, we're opening up the convo now!

Should Pagebound have .25 star ratings?

Pros: You can get granular with your ratings, you decide if you want to use the quarter star system or not (if you don't like them, you can continue to use half stars), many folks have personal rating systems that involve quarter stars

Cons: Since we have sub-ratings on PB, there is additional cognitive load to rating things like plot and quality with quarter stars (we think only having quarter stars for overall rating would be confusing and look like a bug). It could potentially discourage people from adding sub ratings if they feel paralyzed by the granularity

Very curious to hear what you all think!

I feel like there needs to be a way for me to log the hours I spend reading AO3. Like some of these books are top tier literature, where do I discuss my max verstappen fics?

I sometimes catch myself using similar words or phrases in my reviews or comments. If PB were to have a feature that could show you which words you repeated the most in a month, I would probably be embarrassed at how many “absolutely”s and “action-packed volume”s I’d end up with 😅 So I was super curious to know what other folks love to say on here! What words/phrases do you think you use often?

Quick question, because I am fairly new to Pagebound; with the seasonal readalongs and special event readalongs, can you still unlock the badges for them even after their original timeframe?

And if so does it just say you've unlocked the badge after reading those selected books?

hey guys! this might be an overly specific request but does anyone have any book recs that give the same vibe as zelda and link’s doomed dynamic in specifically breath of the wild? ik this is weirdly spedific but I unfortunately came across an ig reel that reminded me of my years long obsession w breath of the wild 🫪 like played through the entire main story 8 times in 2 years type of obsession. something about the loneliness while piecing together the past to find a doomed love and tragically ripped apart found family makes me physically ill (complimentary) and I’d like to cry more. thanks in advance :)

I'm so excited to see that search results will remain when you click back after clicking on one of the results! This is something I've been hoping for for a while. (I'm not great at checking the road map). Anyone else excited about this functionality?

It's so nice to be a part of a community/app/site that takes feedback and requests and actively tries to make them happen. Thank you Lucy and Jennifer and everyone else that makes Pagebound run!