Pagebound

An indie, anti-AI social book tracker that’s like if Goodreads and Reddit had a baby (on the web at + iOS + Android)

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hi. we missed the way people used to talk about books.
so we made a place for it.

welcome to Pagebound...we’re like if Goodreads & Reddit had a baby, but it's
🌱 indie
🧃 anti-AI
🧙 & built by women who read to escape and post to connect

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🚨new feature!!🚨 Pagebound now has reading stats! Here’s a preview:

[pixie ⋆˙⟡ @pixiesbookshelf]

psa ‼️ @pageboundapp now has stats and everything looks gorgeousssss

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In preparation for monthly stats & wrap ups, you can now track your reading format on Pagebound!

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@readbyiann Web is available everywhere! We are in 75 countries for the app but hope to expand!

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@inkandseerah Yup!

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Human curation over algorithmic/AI curation any day! Our brains are much more creative 🌱

Pagebound is an anti-AI Goodreads alternative. You can think of our Lists feature like making an OG Spotify playlist for the community—the more niche & unique, the better

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New giveaways (visit Discover Books)! Many options for thriller lovers this month 👀

Authors & publishers list their books with us by signing up at https://t.co/e3gIHma7UD

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New feature: Reading Streaks ‼️🔥

If you find the streak motivating, you’re able to edit as far back as Jan 2024. If you don’t, you can turn it off in settings.

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@tendrskin We will rotate the events so every identity has an opportunity to be highlighted at some point - here’s a longer response for additional info https://t.co/hZp3Lb9b20

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A follow up response for common questions we’re seeing about why we only have 4 events a year, and if the events rotate:

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A follow up response for common questions we’re seeing about why we only have 4 events a year, and if the events rotate:

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We made some posts that caused huge miscommunications about our Special Events and are taking the opportunity to apologize and provide context on our beliefs about the importance of diversity in reading; we have deleted the old post to prevent spreading further misunderstanding

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@jojo_escapist Apologies, only so much space on here to explain! We will rotate events to highlight as many identities and cultures as possible, which is our goal. Our non heritage month system will let us do that more easily (ex. Lunar new year in Feb, Juneteenth for blk authors)

[Lucía💫 @lulu_nord]

This is something super relevant to all this discussion and I think ppl are not acknowledging it enough.

It's a small team (2 ppl), and making the events take time and effort (especially not using AI, which is a priority in my opinion)

We can't ask them to do things that +

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@theachilleid Our special events are explicitly for highlighting different identities and cultures, they just arent named after heritage months which lets us do things like highlight Black authors outside of BHM (ex. A lunar new year event in Feb and a Juneteenth event for blk authors)

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@poisonedberriez Every special event highlights a different identity/culture; by not naming them after heritage months we have way more flexibility (like, highlighting Indigenous people outside of the November heritage month)

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@tendrskin There seems to be a deep misunderstanding with what we meant by exclusionary. Please see my other reply https://t.co/UmTlPW7a7f

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@tendrskin Here’s an example: Hispanic heritage month is October. Indigenous Peoples Month is November. We would have to exclude one by choosing to highlight a heritage month for the Fall event. In our system we could do both identities in the same year since it’s not tied to the month

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@tendrskin Here’s an example: Hispanic heritage month is October. Indigenous Peoples Month is November. We would have to exclude one by choosing to highlight a heritage month for the Fall event. In our system we could do both identities in the same year since it’s not tied to the month

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@SACRIFlClUM Absolutely agree highlighting different identities and voices is critical, especially right now. Every special event centers a different identity/culture - they just are not named after the heritage months. Main reason is flexibility (ex. centering black authors outside of Feb)

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@bookishmirror Every special event highlights a different identity or culture - they are just not named after heritage months for logistics & flexibility (ex. highlighting Black authors in a month that isn’t Feb)

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@AmeliaisReading Apologies for the aggressive response earlier. I’ve deleted it since I shouldn’t have taken out my frustration in my reply to you. We’ve gotten so many ppl engaging in bad faith, but in hindsight, I don’t think you were

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