What's popular on Pagebound, revisited

In November 2025, we released this article Pagebound, by popularity sharing stats on how our reader community of ~60K used Pagebound. Since then, we’ve released many more niche features for readers and grown to 140K users. How have things changed?

One month ago, we released new avatars (including new colorways of existing avatars), bringing the options to 103 (from the 38 options back in November). Though there’s much more variety, 2 avatars dominate the top 6—victorian girl and the ghost.

We released an Interested status to further organize one’s TBR, and 28% of users have a book in that status. DNF and Paused statuses have been available since day 1, so it’s exciting to see that many users have embraced the Interested status, even though it’s only been available for ~4 months.

While there’s definitely overlap in the books that users TBR vs. mark as Interested, and popular books find their way onto both shelves, the top 5 books marked as Interested in 2026 already includes 2 lesser-known books that ran a Pagebound Giveaway. It’s great to see that giveaways can have an impact like this.

It’s been nearly 6 months of our rotating emoji of the day on Discover Books, a section we implemented to spotlight more underground books. We choose unique emojis that are seasonally themed (ones from this past month include 🕌, 🧧, 🍀) and 20 books with that emoji commonly selected in reviews will be featured. Which emojis are the most common in reviews across Pagebound?

At the beginning of March, we released streak tracking, including the ability to return to historical dates to edit your streak. The longest streak on Pagebound right now is 807 days, while the most common streak by far is under 7 days. It’ll be interesting to see if the distribution below changes as time goes on.

Let us know what stats you’re interested in seeing highlighted next time! Soon, you’ll have access to personal reading stats and monthly wrap-ups 👀 currently in progress…

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