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More quest tiers released

Chart with badges earned

Chart showing quest theme

Number of people no joined

When you build your own book app, you get to call reading challenges Main Quests & Side Quests, and release new gemstone tiers 🤩 #booksky

Pie chart with 54% increasing, 19% lower, 27% no change

Most common goal is btwn 1-40 books

Hey #booksky, are you keeping your 2026 Reading Goal the same, increasing it, or decreasing it?

Here’s what the data shows for Pagebound users:

Historical fantasy and nonfiction

Thriller, horror, Romantasy

Fantasy; romance, scifi, poetry

We have book giveaways 🎉 Thrilled to offer 14 books across genres, formats, and locations for our inaugural giveaway batch. Thank you to the authors & publishers who made this possible! #booksky

Pagebound now offers book giveaways! Check out the selection from Discover Books in the app or pagebound.co/giveaways on web 👀

Thank you to the authors & publishers hosting these giveaways! If you’re interested in listing a book to giveaway, visit support.pagebound.co/giveaways 💕

aww welcome!! so glad Pagebound can be an escape hatch for you 💕 (it is for me 😭)

Custom shelf in Pagebound with breakdown by status stats

Create a personal reading challenge in 2026 by making a custom shelf in your library! You’ll see number of books in each status & the bar turn orange as you read more 🎉

#booksky

Screenshot of feed tab

On the app, a new "Feed" tab has been added to book pages 👀

You can see progress & personal updates from anyone on Pagebound, regardless if you follow them or not!

The Ballad of Perilous Graves

Black Cake

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

The Yellow House

Our Special Event Readalong starts today! Read one of these books through Feb 15th and post or comment in the book forum to earn a beautiful badge celebrating Mardi Gras & Carnival 💃

#booksky

Thanks Grace! You’re one of our OG supporters ❤️💐 from back when we had a couple thousand users—can’t believe we are now at over 110k 😭🥹

Recently downloaded @pagebound.bsky.social and it’s ESSENTIAL for any reader. The community side is so cute and made me enjoy using my phone again lol

Thoughts from 1%

Thoughts from 10%

Thoughts from 41%

Thoughts from 70%

What’s it like reading Wuthering Heights with a stream of side commentary you can choose to tune into? 👀 join our 2026 winter readalong to find out…

#booksky

Forums with 300+ posts are like stadium concerts

Forums with 100-200 posts

Forums with 50 posts

Forums with <20 posts

How to navigate Pagebound book forums & find the best readalong experience for you.

Based on the activity in the forum (post count listed at the top of the book page), the readalong experience is different! Try one of each! After all, you contain multitudes.

#booksky

Correct! We don’t use genAI

Wanted to show off my @pagebound.bsky.social wrapped and maybe entice others to join!

Lovely community and it's so pretty. I'm MindlessMoose over there if you want to be book pals 🖤

Books to reinvent yourself in 2026

brb committing identity theft

The history of ___

Rise & grind

Books to reinvent yourself in 2026: find these lists & more on Pagebound! Our List feature encourages clever, curated collections for the community; tongue-in-cheek names included 😉

#booksky

don’t be sorry, we lovvveee it 💖

We had to pause wrapped generation for a bit because we’re getting so much traffic! Context in Jennifer’s post in Pagebound Club :) she just turned it on again!

My Pagebound Wrapped

Happy new year! 🎉 What does your Pagebound Wrapped say about you?

Find it on the Stats tab of your profile

Kelsey Ketch's 2025 wrap up on Pagebound.

Check out kelseyketch 2025 Wrapped on @pagebound.bsky.social ! pagebound.co/users/kelsey...

Amazon owns Goodreads, so yes your choice in reading tracker is political.

Choose Pagebound instead, we’re
🌱 indie & self-funded
🧃 anti-AI & ad-free
🧙‍♀️ built by 2 women

#booksky

Summary of books read, points earned, badges earned

The spellshop book forum post

Comment about tomatoes from the spellshop forum was our most upvoted book forum comment

Rarest badges earned

Our first year of being your favorite book app comes to a close… #booksky

It’s been an incredible year, from launching web in Jan to the app in Oct, with our reader community growing to 75K—we are so grateful for every person who gave us a chance, told a friend about us, left a review in the App Store, made a one-time contribution, or joined Royalty.

Readers wearing Pagebound merch

Happy Holidays! So wonderful seeing some of the faces & furry friends behind the avatars on Pagebound.

Together, we’ve created this warm, whimsical bookish haven on the internet 💕

Yay! Welcome to Pagebound!

You have 2 options:

○ use Kindle's new AI-powered "Ask this book" tool when you're confused on ch 10

○ post "question from ch 10" on Pagebound where every book has its own forum, and other humans are waiting to share their thoughts & discuss with you

(there is a right answer)

Definition of slop from Merriam Webster word of the year

Escape the slop in 2026 by joining Pagebound

Stop the slop! Pagebound is like if Goodreads & Reddit had a baby, but indie, anti-AI, and built by 2 women.

No AI features on Pagebound ever, no algos even—just kind humans discussing good books & you can feel the difference

Looking for a reading tracker/planner that functions like GR should but with interactive elements?

That’s kind-of what @pagebound.bsky.social aims to be.

My username is the same as here— lilibetbombshell.

Full post: bit.ly/4aSVLRT

#pagebound #readingtracker #readingplanner #BookSky

Thank you so much for your support!! 👑💐 so glad you’re having fun on Pagebound :)

Christmas cookies

when Pagebound is your whole personality so the winter readalong books make an appearance at cookie decorating

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking & The Serviceberry

Gift Pagebound Royalty Gift membership to Pagebound Royalty for 3, 6, or 12 months.

A new way to support Pagebound & spread community love: you can now gift a Royalty membership to a user for 3, 6, or 12 months (or send support.pagebound.co/gift to loved ones asking for holiday gift ideas)!

A huge thank you to all our Royalty members who make our work possible 💐