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DRM-locked ebooks
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2013–2022), in 3 threads.
People raised many different problems with DRM-locked ebooks, 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 4 complaints
- Books unreadable on other devices or OS because DRM locks them to platforms2022-12-25
- Proprietary reader with bad UX cripples the reading experience2022-12-25
- Had to spend hours, convert files and install shady software to read a bought ebook2020-05-26
- Page turns take about a second, so reading DRM ebooks is slow2013-02-24