Good afternoon Bookaholics!

My question for you all today is... 🥁

If books had theme songs, what would introduce your current read? 🤔

What book hacks do you have?

This is inspired from another post in the clerb where I commented about how I hate a vendor of a used book market in my town. He sells special editions and OOP (Out of Print) copies of books on Thursdays but writes in Sharpie the price on the covers No stickers. Just straight Sharpie right on there!

Did you know you can use hand sanitizer to get Sharpie off your covers? 👀

Yep. Hand sanitizer. So you put a sheet of paper inside the book where the first page is located, then on the cover put a pea sized bit of hand sanitizer where the Sharpie is and wipe it away with a tissue or cloth and voila no more Sharpie.

Obviously this won't work on the pages just the cover.

But this is so painful to do on OOP or SE's!

Recently moved to a spot where London is a lot more accessible and so more new book shops to check out!! Today I visited Foyles, Trafalgar Square Waterstones for a read and a piece of cake and quickly popped in to an Alice in Wonderland themed bookshop and some smaller ones in Camden. I love a day devoted to book shops and I have my own bookish trails for days out in York and last year a few days in Scotland including Wigton (all of these trips involve a sit down in a cafe naturally ☕️). Just wondered if anyone has their own book days out or routes that are their favourites? 🧋

A question for y'all inspired by the book I'm reading: if your life was turned into a movie or a multi-part limited series what wpuld be the soundtrack? Are there any songs that remind you of specific points in your life?

(For anyone curious the book is Soundtrack of Silence by Matt Hay)

So a microphone tattoo with water drops around it is going to look like an ejaculating penis from far away. I’m just saying.

thought i would try asking here since i know there's a lot of fellow writers here! 🙂‍↕️ i'm trying to move away from using google docs as a place to write my stuff, and i'm currently using ellipsus. however, it doesn't have a feature to create footnotes, and as a nonfiction writer i really need to use them, especially when i'm writing drafts so i've figured it's a bit of a dealbreaker for me. does anyone have any suggestions for an ai-free online writing software?

i've seen scrivener floated around as an alternative, but you have to download it and pay for a specific license after 30 days, and i don't want to be tied to just my laptop and i'd rather avoid having to download extra software for it, especially just for a free trial. i already use libreoffice instead of microsoft office which i could use, but i prefer the cloud storage/functionality of google docs based on how i use my various devices. i also briefly tried obsidian but i felt like it had a bit of a steep learning curve as it's entirely markdown based, and i felt like i spent more time googling how to use obsidian/markdown than i did actually doing any work. it also took up quite a lot of storage space on my laptop, which is another reason why i'd like to avoid having to download more software.

i feel like i'm looking for something super specific and i've already tried a few alternatives so it might not exist yet, but thought i'd put it out there to see if it does! i don't necessarily mind paying for the software if it has the features/useability i'd like. i paid for obsidian sync for way too long before i finally admitted to myself i was not going to use it enough to justify paying for it 💀

this is relevant to books, keep reading

Currently I'm on vacation in Northumbria, UK and today I went exploring to Northumberlandia to see "The Lady of the North"

And I feel like I went at the right time because right now they have an event on called 🔗Tales from the Trail and it was pretty fun to go around the trail, being on an epic quest to save the Lady of the North who was captured under a sleeping spell or even listening to poems about nature. They even had a little free library set up as part of the event.

If you're in the area then I recommend checking it out!

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

With Dungeon Crawler Carl becoming a tv series I’ve seen a lot of chatter online of who the readers would cast for their favorite characters and… I’ve seen a lot of not great suggestions. It made me think it might be fun to do this for the book characters we are reading right now. Play along!

• WRONG ANSWERS ONLY: Who are you casting for the characters if the book you are reading right now became a movie/tv show? Assume your first top 10 choices were taken so unfortunately you must settle. The actors might not be bad but think of ones who aren’t quite right for that role (or maybe ones that are really wrong). Be sure to list the book that character is from too.

My Casting

• Lore Olympus Hades will be Tom Hanks
• Wheel of Time Rand will be Rupert Grint
• Zodiac Academy Tory Vega will be Jennifer Aniston
• Halloween Party Poirot will be Jackie Chan

Has a book series made you so sad you refuse to read the next one or the last? cause i read "Beartown "and the second book, "Us against you" and downright REFUSE to read the last one,since the premise is that one character dies in every book, and i have an inkling that MY favourite character is gonna die and I'm not emotionally prepared😭

hi everyone! i know many of us here use libraries but i also do know that there are many of us who do not or can not utilize library access as much as we'd like. i'm a library student graduating in october and i have learned so much about all kinds of libraries and what they offer to their patrons. so, here are examples of what you may be able to access, other than books, thanks to libraries!

• streaming services (kanopy, hoopla, etc) • national park passes • museum passes • musical instruments • DVDs, VHS tapes, and CDs • access to rare collections and archives (old newspapers, documents, letters, etc.) • free art exhibitions • book clubs • home book delivery (in case anyone has mobility issues or lacks transportation) • materials & books in braille • assistance with job applications! • citizenship support (refugee and immigrant assistance) • concerts, film screenings, and lectures • clubs (minecraft, D&D, anime, pokemon, etc) • assistance with learning to cook • access to early voting! • genealogy and ancestry research • interlibrary loans (one of my faves) • free internet access • clean air and protection from outdoors • board games • language classes • makerspaces • meeting rooms for companies/students/organizations • tickets to local events • periodicals (magazines, newspapers, etc) • podcasts • librarian personalized book picks! • printing (free or low-cost) • seasonal reading challenges • research assistance and access to databases (proquest & other journals) • entrepreneurship assistance • social services (shelter for unhoused patrons, narcan for overdoses, addiction assistances, food banks, community fridges, etc) • tech support (learning how to use a certain device or platform) • life jackets • telescopes • cameras • mp3 players with audiobooks on them • jackets • sewing machines • dvd players • video games • ipads and apple pencils • tutoring and reading assistance • volunteering opportunities • assistance to veterans • workshops • access to news stations & radio • cookbooks and recipes • car repair services • CELA collections (for people with print and sensory disabilities) • encyclopedia access • video tutorials • vegetable and flower seeds!

and many many more!! libraries are vast institutions and one of the only third spaces that remain free, accessible and open to everyone. please, get that library card and take advantage of what libraries give you!