Is anyone else starting a book in January which they anticipate will take them the entire year?

I'm hoping to slowly read the Divine Comedy over the course of 2026, following along with the lectures on Digital Dante, along with the Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.

Did anyone else get the email newsletter for it? What were your favorite things to see? I personally loved seeing the stats and most used emojis!! Also the spellshop tomato war posts getting a feature kind of sent me lol (for context, see Jennifer’s unofficial tomato war side quest list).

The average book rating being a 3.9 also felt very fittingly positive for the vibe and community on here. Im so excited to continue using pagebound next year!

I’m thinking of getting an e-reader but I’m still not sure if it will be worth it or not. A lot of the books I read are ebooks and I’d usually read it on my phone or tablet. It’s not bad but it’s not always the most comfortable and I always end up getting distracted so that’s why I’m thinking of getting a Kobo. Can anyone who’s made this shift to e-readers share if they have experienced any significant changes in their reading? Did it improve the reading experience? Did you end up reading more books?

What does everyone think about cracking spines and dog-earing pages?

I personally do both and love my books to look well-read and loved 📚

Like 4 pages in and I love this guy. I love a stinky little curmudgeon of a man. He's very >:C and I'm sat for it

This is the second year I've attempted to read this book through Dracula Daily, and both times I've gotten horribly behind and lost motivation to continue. I love the idea of Dracula Daily, but I'm not the biggest fan of reading my books on a screen, so that may be part of it.

Or maybe I'll just try again next year lol

It was actually only a few days ago when I was aimlessly clicking around on my account (bored and in public, you know how it is) and ended up on one tab that said that I didn't have any saved posts... my first reaction was of course: that's a thing?! Although I did immediately forget afterwards about it until today, when I was looking at a club post asking for recs and thinking "wow... so many recs worth checking out that I don't have time to. If only there was some way I could bookma-...!!!" And so, today marks the first time of me actually using this feature <3 Did anybody else straight up not realize this was a thing lol? It's an awesome feature for sure!

It's the time again when all the reading apps start to ask you about your book goal for next year. While normaly it makes me excited for next year, this year the message kinda stressed me out. It's not that I think I won't read much next year, just I don't want to plan it? I think it's connected to the world and life feeling so stressful right now and like everything that's kind predictable is that it's getting worse... I don't know if that makes any sense... Does anyone else feel similar? Do you (still) like setting reading goals?

When I look at my points on my profile it says things like "you left a comment +1" and the date is from 2 days ago, even if I just commented on a club post. Does comments there not count? I generally interact more with the club posts than book forums, but do we not earn points from that?

There might be a FAQ or something somewhere, but I haven't found it yet:,(

I've seen a few different star rating charts and am working on mine and I'm curious how y'all go about deciding on your ratings?

This is my current system: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Loved, highly recommend ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Liked, recommend ⭐⭐⭐ - Mid, might recommend ⭐⭐ - Disliked, won't recommend ⭐ - Hated, will actively go out of my way to tell people about how bad this book was because I can't get over the fact that it was published and that people like it and recommend it. There is hope for the rest of us wannabe authors.