Since I keep talking about @pagebound.bsky.social on here I sat down this morning to highlight what I think is special about the site. Spoiler: it's mostly just a really lovely community of book lovers 🙂‍↕️

what we mean when we say Pagebound is anti-AI

Benefits of supporting indie? The 2 humans building your favorite book app are accessible & listen! We just released a public Roadmap to provide transparency on what we’re building next & why (pstpstpst yearly wrap up incoming!) #booksky

How to always have an answer for “what did you think of that book?” #booksky Pagebound keeps track of your Book Journey: from when you started reading to all of the posts & comments you made in the book forum, your progress updates, and your review.

Well hello @pagebound.bsky.social I just joined your lovely community✨️ I love how the app has an old forum feel and that it focuses more on community discussion and critical thinking than passive tracking and achievement hoarding! I'll obsess over this over winter❄️ #pagebound #booksky

You can now mute books in your home feed! There’s also a new “owned” toggle, “interested” reading status for those with overwhelming TBRs, and a section on Discuss to view book status updates from your followers! update your app to see these new features 😉

hii we’re the women behind this upstart book app taking on Goodreads (owned by Amazon, bleh) & yes you know we’re indie and humans because we literally turned our pets into avatars you can choose when you create your pagebound profile 😂

we ignored all the rules of social media to build our social reading tracker: - no timestamps on posts/comments—discussions about books are timeless - no algo, so clout and drama don't win by default - no AI; we're 100% human #booksky

New feature 🎉 Track your reading progress (app update required): you can now track page or % read without making a post to the book forum. Your progress is saved for stats (coming soon!) & gets sent to your followers. Add a comment to the progress update from your profile!

I’m loving the @pagebound.bsky.social app!! 😭🫶🏼✨ It’s so beautiful and the forums are so fun! Anyone else use Pagebound? Let’s be friends! 🥹 #BookSky #Pagebound

I am OBSESSED with the @pagebound.bsky.social Club and each little books forum space. I love love love a book community. 😭❤️‍🔥

🚨🚨🚨🥳 The Pagebound app is now available on iOS and Android. Search Pagebound (or Pagebound: Social Book Tracker) or click the link in bio to download. We are available in 70 countries! #booksky

Just downloaded and I'm even more obsessed with tge app than the site!

🚨🎉Pagebound is available on Android! Search Pagebound in the Google Play Store to download. Still waiting for Apple approval for iOS. We are available in 68 countries & waiting for Canada approval soon. #booksky

We’ve submitted for app store approvals! And we’ve rolled out our rebrand to web! Since our app & website design are sisters, not twins, this new logo ties both together. Shout out to illustrator Mariam Chagelishvili for bringing our new 3D PB icon to life ❤️

Another round of beta invites for the Pagebound app went out last night! 🎉 This time for iOS. Double check your spam if your email inbox couldn’t handle the excitement 🙃

🚨 Giving away 100 more spots for early access to the app (while it’s still in beta)🚨 We have 50 for iOS & 50 for Android. To enter, 1. follow us here 2. comment your Pagebound username + if you’re iOS or Android 3. pinky promise that when the app is released (in the future), you’ll write a review!

You can now create a Pagebound account with username & password (no longer just Google auth)! So happy to have this feature out, and thanks everyone for your patience!

“what was your favorite part?” the emotional devastation. thank you. #booksky

rating a book 5 stars because it made me lose sleep. worth it. #booksky

books: the original personality quiz.

this is a post. about a book app. on the internet. where your attention span is 2.3 seconds. so yea. we’ll make it quick. we’re Pagebound. we track books and spiral publicly. welcome. #booksky

being “devastated in a good way” should be a genre. #booksky

i organize my books by emotional damage. #booksky

this book has plot. the plot is “they make terrible choices and then kiss about it.”

he says “you’re mine” with his whole character arc. #booksky #romancesky

you could be doomscrolling. or you could be reviewing a book you finished at 3am like it’s your magnum opus. Pagebound: choose chaos, but literary. #booksky

no one talks about how reading is just doing drugs with your eyes.

my biggest flex: i've cried more over books than boys

sometimes you read one sentence in a book and you have to close it and stare at the ceiling #booksky

anyone using @pagebound.bsky.social yet?

books with beautiful prose should come with a warning: do not read in public unless you want to cry on a bus. #booksky

you could be doomscrolling. or you could be reviewing a book you finished at 3am like it’s your magnum opus. Pagebound: choose chaos, but literary. #booksky

you don’t finish a book. it finishes you. #booksky

let’s be honest, pagebound is 30% tracking books and 70% spiraling with friends. #booksky

i joined Pagebound to romanticize my reading life and overshare in the comments. #booksky

pagebound is for people who’ve been emotionally compromised by a sentence.

we talk about books like they’re people who broke our hearts. as we should.

every book is either a mirror or a knife. sometimes both. 💙📚

Pagebound is a book tracker, a reading journal, a gossip forum, and your new internet crush. all in one. #booksky

Flex your creativity by creating Lists on Pagebound 👀 Curate a collection of books for a very specific vibe—what comes to mind for you? #booksky 💙📚

writing reviews like i’m being paid in imaginary prestige.

taste in books is just astrology for nerds.

Pagebound is a place for: - readers - re-readers - people who say “i read this years ago but i still think about that one line…”

reading the comments on a forum post like it’s a sequel to the book.

no, we’re not a cult. we're a social reading site with a deeply parasocial relationship to your emotional damage. totally different.

being a reader is 10% reading and 90% mood-managing your TBR. #booksky

girl dinner? no. girl bookshelf. #booksky

don’t ask me what the book's about. it’s about me, actually.

reading a book is cheaper than therapy until you spiral and buy five more