The Discussion Forums are a great way to "meet" other booklovers!  For information about the specific Discussion Forums and their purposes, please see About the Specific Discussion Forums.  Enrollment in Annual Membership is a requirement to be able to Post in the Discussion Forums.

The rules:

• We ask that members put their topics into the appropriate Forums.  For information about the specific forums please read About the Specific Discussion Forums.

• We ask that members behave courteously to one another, refrain from vulgarity, and do not 'bash' PBS or promote other swap sites.

• Please take care that any images Posted to the Discussion Forums are either your own property OR in the public domain.  (Copyrighted images will be subject to removal, and a repeat incident after a first warning may lead to account termination.)

•  Forum posts should not include email addresses, telephone numbers or mailing addresses.
• Posting links or text from misinformation/hatespeech sites is prohibited. 
• Advertisement or solicitation is not permitted in any member-contributed content on PBS, including the Discussion Forums and members' Forum sigs on PBS. (This does not include "advertising" your PBS bookshelf in the Book Bazaar.)

We will remove any links or other material which solicit for any purpose -  commercial or nonprofit. It is okay (an exception to the no-commercial-links policy)  to include a link to your personal webpage in your forum sig or public profile, even if your webpage is your business webpage; but there must be no accompanying soliciting text with the link. No links to other swapping sites, or any commercial sites, may appear in any member-contributed content on PBS--not in Forum sigs, nor Forum posts, nor PBS Profiles, nor PMs, nor the Eclectic Pen, nor Reviews or Book Tags.

 

Repeated violation of the Forum posting guidelines may lead to suspension or termination of forum-posting privileges, and/or membership.

How to use the Forums: The Basics

• To read a topic:
  • Go to the Discussion Forums main page under Community from the top of any page on the site.
  • Scroll down the list of Forums and click on the title to see the list of active topics
  • Click the title of any topic to read the posts in it
    • To read the latest post in the topic, click "Last post" on the right of the list of topics
    • You can "jump to" any page in a topic by selecting a page number at the top or bottom
    • You can reply to any topic using the text box at the bottom of any page on the topic.

• To post a new topic (this option is available to those enrolled in Standard and Limited Membership)
  • Click at the top of any Forum page
  • Enter your topic title in the Subject line (you will NOT be able to edit this once you have posted the topic)
  • Enter the text of your post  in the text box (if you are using a Mac running an older version of Safari, you wil need to update to Tiger's version of Safari or use the Firefox browser to do this)
  • Click
  • You can edit your posts (but not your topic title) at any time by clicking  on the post.
  • You cannot delete posts or topics.
  • Topics will "archive off" the active list 45 days after the last post in the topic.
• To reply to a topic: (this option is available to those enrolled in Standard and Limited Membership)
  • Click at the top of any page in the topic, or
  • Scroll down to the bottom of any page in the topic and enter your text in the Reply box there (if you are using a Mac, you will need Safari to do this)
  • Click
• "Watched topics":
  • Your Watched Topics are the topics you have selected to follow
  • Watching a topic means that you will get an email alert whenever a new post is added to the topic
  • Click at the top of any page in the topic to add the topic to your Watched list.
  • You can get to your list of Watched Topics by clicking at the top of the main Forum page
  • You can Watch any number of topics
  • You can unWatch a topic by clicking at the top of any page in the topic.

• Searching Forums
  • Click at the top of any forum page, or the top of the Forum Main Page.
  • You can search all of the Discussion Forums at once:
    • You can search by keyword/phrase in the topic subject (title) or message (post)
    • You can search by member Nickname to see all recent topics that member has posted in

Related Links:

About the Specific Discussion Forums
What are the PaperBackSwap Discussion Forums?
Can I turn off those flashing/moving/blinking forum images?
How to adjust your Forum Settings