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Digital books
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2010–2023), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Digital books, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Must guess likely words and jump through search results to find passages2023-09-30
- Digital book search misses equations, diagrams, and needs exact search terms2020-09-29
- Can only download and print five sequential pages at a time2019-08-06
- Notes, graphs and pictures look awful in digital book versions2018-09-18
- Hard to browse, bookmark, annotate, cross-reference and copy text on screens2017-09-17
- TOC entries don't link to pages and page numbers are wrong2010-10-20