Hi fellow Pagebounders! I’m wondering how many of you use multiple apps to track your reading.

For example, I actively use Pagebound, Goodreads, and Storygraph. I formerly used Fable too but stopped due to the bigoted and racist AI issues that came up.

I’m trying to move away from Goodreads because it’s tied to Amazon but still use it to log reading since that’s where the majority of my friends are active with tracking their reading.

I use Storygraph primarily for the reading streak but also because it’s useful for looking up trigger/content warnings for books I’m interested in. Storygraph also has the buddy reads, readalong, and book club features which look cool though I’ve barely used them myself.

I’ve recently become most active on PB because I love the community on here and being able to interact with everyone! I’m really enjoying the way PB is structured and how it continues to develop too!

I also like seeing the varied stats and wrap-ups on all the different platforms!

Do you use multiple reading tracker apps and, if so, is there a difference in how/why you use each? What makes you continue using more than one?

Thanks in advance for your responses and sorry for the long post! I’m just curious to know 😊 💭💜

You know those things where you're like... Wait do people actually do that?

Here is a non-exhaustive list that I am curious about;

• let out a breath you didn't know you were holding
• felt the gaze of someone on your back
• saw someone's eyes darken
• melted
• kissed someone and genuinely described it as "crashing your lips together"
• slammed a door and slid down with your back against it

Maybe these things happen to people and I am just not living life to it's most romantic but please tell me your stories! It could also be my autistic ass has trouble understanding which ones are more metaphorical and which ones the author is using genuinely 🤭

A bit of a rant because I have seen it multiple times this week used to describe books.

Firstly this is not about wanting to read books without sex in them. That is valid and absolutely encouraged. This word choice implies that there are clean books and dirty books and that just creates this false sense of shame and division. This is coming from a grown adult lifelong reader.

Its not an accident that it is particularly used to describe the romance genre (its largest reader demographic being those who identify as women and written by the same. Largest not only). Do we talk about horror or westerns or non-fiction or mysteries or fantasy (even though recently fantasy has begun qualifying out as a sub genre, Romantasy, which is often used to label fantasy written by women) with that kind of clarifier? I sure don't see it as prevalent if ever.

Why can't we just say I don't want to read a book with sex in it. Its has many biological meanings including sexual intercourse which is a normal biological function.

So do we use other cute euphemisms that at least don't imply one is inherently better or worse like "Fade to Black" or "Closed Door" At least with these the opposite doesn't make an automatic negative judgment though I personally think they are still a little silly to avoid using the word sex.

I can't be the only one that is bothered by this type of wording and what it really implies. Or maybe I am! Either way let me know what your thoughts are.

*Again note I am not coming for anyone who prefers or wants to read books without sex or with less sexual forward plots.

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They’re bickering on the patio when I arrive. The argument, I gather, is whether it was fair of HR to reprimand Rory’s desk mate for telling a colleague that her hair looked gorgeous that day. “I just don’t think you should touch people without their permission,” says Tom. “Like, that’s an etiquette thing, not a race thing.” “Oh, come on, it wasn’t like she was, like, assaulting her,” says Rory.

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is- is this why June is this way? do I finally have a solid group of exactly WHO to slap for the way she is? Because the way Kuang writes it—it’s so mundane, so “office small talk,” its just another hiccup for them. It’s a conversation I've heard so many times because of how problematic and often white folks pulls this shit and they just don’t think twice about it. They're standing around debating someone else’s boundaries like it’s a fun little ethics puzzle instead of, y’know, a person saying “don’t touch me.”

I feel like Kuang put this scene right here to show what June’s environment is like. These are her people. This is who she feels understood by. This is the ecosystem that convinces her she’s “not doing anything wrong.”