r/bookstagram

Hi everyone, I want to get back to booksta but I am confused as it is difficult for the account to grow into a community of readers that I genuinely connect with.. so I want to ask if booksta still a thing or its just f4f or no likes etc..

Hello! I'm @a_bookbound_soul on instagram and would love to connect with new people out there. I used to be very active few years back but I haven't been able to give as much time to it due to med school. Hence my account has gone totally dormant. Although I don't post regularly now, I do engage with people. I love reading dystopian ya, fantasy, sci-fi and crime thrillers. Drop a hi or something on instagram if you're interested in being friends!

Hey you all..I love reading books like you all.And i hv recently made an instagram page where I share abt the books I read(hindi, english , marathi)and will be posting abt different places,food etc(but specially books).i would like to make new friends through this who love reading.My id is _m8nm9

Hiya!

Okay so I am relatively new to the bookstagram community, but am constantly seeing people host giveaways on their page n had a few questions!

Are people typically purchasing new off the shelf items or "regifting" something they already own? (have seen a ton of people gifting brand new kindles and can't tell if the person is buying it themselves or possibly being sponsored?)

How do they keep track of everyone who has completed all the 'steps' necessary to partake in the giveaway? ie follow the account and one other, reposting, commenting, liking the post, etc. You're telling me that this one person is fact checking each and every like/comment to make sure they completed 3-5 steps?

I love the IDEA of hosting a giveaway to promote community but it seems like unnecessary stress on one account/person so I can't wrap my head around it lol

I’ve been wanting to post more but I tend to go into readings slumps pretty quickly and I just get so discouraged when my posts do so horribly that I feel like I just wasted an hour making a post that no one likes

I'm trying to create cozy book/journaling content. What makes you follow a Bookstagram?

I'm just starting out and I'm curious—what kind of posts make you hit Follow?

Book reviews?

Aesthetic reels?

Reading journals?

Cozy coffee/book content?

Reading vlogs?

I'd love to learn from this community.

I am new to bookstagram and have just started reading arcs does anyone know any resources where I can learn the right and wrongs of ARC reviewing and bookstagram. Like for example is Canva okay to use for graphics to punch up a post?

I love reading, but one thing has always bothered me.

I'll finish an amazing book, close it... and then realize I have nobody to talk to about it.

Sometimes I recommend it to friends, but they either haven't read it or aren't interested.

It makes me wonder how many readers feel the same way.

Do you have people in your life who genuinely enjoy discussing books, or is reading mostly a solo experience for you?

If anyone is interested in joining a likes engagement group @fullybookedengagement has opening as does @booksta.girlies. One is a like when you are active and the other is a like everyday group.

I just published Book 2 of my trilogy, and I've been getting a ton of obvious scammers claiming to be Bookstagrammers offering to review my book for a fee. Their Instagram accounts are usually only weeks old, have zero posts, and a few hundred (likely fake) followers.

For the actual reviewers out there:

• Do you normally cold-contact authors about reviewing their books?
• Do you expect to be paid for a review (aside from a free PDF/ePub copy)?
• Is any of this normal practice, or am I right to just block and move on?

I'm asking because I'm new to this bookstagram stuff.

I'm an indie author who writes cozy sci-fi. It's a little niche, but indie in general is hard to find a lot of traction, so I went looking for bookstagrammers who might be able to help with reach and visibility.

What I've found is that there are a lot of bookstagrammers who are paying for comments and followers, and that looks impressive but it only takes 2 clicks to realize you wouldn't get any reach from it.

As an example, it's highly unlikely you'll have 42k followers with only 9 posts. Additionally you probably aren't going to organically have 1500 likes to a post and zero comments. Some people seem to also buy comments, and they all seem to pick one thing about the book and everyone talks about the same thing (which is usually interpreted incorrectly), and then you click into one commenter's profile and they're a Vietnamese fisherman with 4 posts, all of fish.

The question is simply, why? Why bother faking accounts like this? I've had them reach out to me and offer $20-30 packages for 'promotion', but surely it's costing you that much to buy the likes and comments.

I just don't understand, and it makes it really difficult to find the authentic creators.

I recently got back on my bookstagram I created last year but I never did anything with it. However I love reading books and don‘t have many people to talk books with so i opened the page again to start posting what Im reading and maybe post some reviews but just like last year i started felling shy again and now I feel discouraged and confused what to post? Would love any ideas and any new friends to follow pls & thx <3

Soooooo I want to make better content on both booktok and booksta. I know I'll have to make different content for both. But I don't have an idea of how to make a schedule. Does the schedule have to be the same every week or can topics be done on different days.

Example

Instead of: Mondays book review Tuesday bestie video etc

Can the schedule be done on different days?

I'm lost and I am trying to take it more serious but I'm still under 200 views on booktok and have no idea how to be aesthetic on booksta.

Any help with be amazing