we’ve all used a variety things to mark our place in books, right? like a receipt, a ponytail, or a wrapper—but what’s something really weird you’ve used before? i’d say my most random bookmark was an orange peel…it’s a long story, but let’s just say desperate times, desperate measures 😭😭

Hello! I tried to search a bit through the PB Club but wasn’t able to find a post about this (maybe i put the wrong keywords? idk) and searching online gives me too many options 🤣 so I decided to make a post :)

As the post's title says, I'm searching for an app (I have an android tablet) for reading ebooks, as I have some ebooks I got from Project Gutenberg and a bunch of pdf articles from JStor I'd love to read. But also, it'd be nice if i could also use it to download other ebooks (even if i find a pain reading stuff on a screen for long, but could work to read book previews before buying physical copies, i guess), but not tied to kobo or kindle and the likes.

I tried in the past using an old kobo reader, but maybe because it's very old (got it in 2012 iirc) it glitches easily, and it's a pain to use. I now have an epub reader and a pdf reader plugin on Obsidian, but it's not the best solution imho, bc I can't highlight/take notes.

TL;DR does anyone have any recs for android apps (not kindle or kobo) where i can read ebooks/pdfs and also download them? Bonus points if i can highlight or similar!

Sorry if it's too wordy! Thank you in advance for the help!

I am curious to know: Wether or not you are in the pathway of the winter storm Fern, what books (any format) have you set aside to read while hunkering down/over the weekend? I would like to know; comment them down below! 📖 I personally have 11 ebooks downloaded + 1 physical hardcover, but I don't expect to be able to get through them all meanwhile. Anybody else reading the titles down below, as well?

• How To Read A Book by Monica Wood
• The Convenience Store By The Sea by Sonoko Machida
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
• The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa
• More Days At The Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
• And Then There Were Crumbs by Eve Calder
• The Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
• Book Lovers by Emily Henry
• The Heartbeat Library by Laura Imai Messina
• The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Imagining Mark as Tim Laughlin from Fellow Travelers 👀

Is there a book that made the way you read your favorite genre change. Where a fundamental shift happened in what you thought of as great or entertaining. I actually can look back at my life and see some clear delineations of before and after.

In Fantasy it was really a two parter. As a 14 year old in 1981 I stumbled across Lord Foul’s Bane by Stephen Donaldson. It blew my mind. It made all the things I was enjoying at the time seem less. Foamfollower was my damn spirit animal. I consider Donaldson the beginning of Grim Dark. The problem is no one else was writing anything like it. It was a decade and a half later when A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin came out and the shift was complete. I still liked traditional fantasy but I loved the morally complicated characters that exploded into existence after A Game of Thrones.

In Science Fiction the answer is easy and short. There was before Dune and after Dune. I will give an honorable mention to the anthology Dangerous Visions which I read shortly after Dune.

The first small novel I ever completed was A View From The Cherry Tree by Willow Davis Roberts. I read it in 4th grade. Up until then I had been a very reluctant reader. That changed after that book. I dove into Hardy Boys and then Nancy Drew. Quickly moved onto Sherlock Holmes and Doc Savage. Honestly as I grew up I didn’t stray too far from that formula. Then I read the Black Echo by Michael Connelly and my mystery reading was never the same. I began to seek out mystery novels that were steeped in social commentary. Who used the mystery novel to talk about the world we lived with all its faults. I will give an honorable mention to Mystic River by Dennis Lehane which I still think is one of the best pieces of fiction I have ever read.

I would love to hear yours if you are willing to share.

Anyone else in the northeast US stockpiling books to read during this blizzard? After the more “practical” prep of grocery shopping and such today I spent about an hour on Libby maxing out my ebook and audiobook loans and have my fingers crossed that my physical book holds at the library are ready to pick up by Saturday…

do I already have 2 library books to start and two I’m finishing up? Yes. Do I have a full shelf of books that I own that I could read while snowed in? Also yes. Just doing my part to boost the circulation numbers for funding 🤣

I'm starting the audiobook and already love the fact that the author narrates it. Such a nice voice. 😊

Hiii☆ I recently started reading manga and as a lover of bl stories I need help to find some good bl manga! Do you have any suggestions? (Without smut,I really hate it). Thank you♡

What's everyone's favourite activity to keep their hands/eyes occupied while listening to audiobooks? I often end up listening while doing chores but obviously chores suck. I thoroughly enjoy sitting down to Eurotruck simulator 2 with an audiobook in my ears though. Fully engages all my senses without being overwhelming, it's actually so relaxing for me!