Google Books

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2009–2023), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Google 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 9 complaints

Early 20th century documents are inaccessible on Google Books2023-09-07
Some scanned pages are unreadable and images vanish entirely2022-08-21
Slow, battery-heavy reading that requires uploading and converting epub files2021-04-05
Digitised book is readable only with heavy limitations, so user re-types content by hand2019-07-24
User interface has been unusable for a long time2018-03-26
Completely unusable on iPad2015-11-30
Books are often horrible to access2015-09-12
Cannot share all saved, tagged books with another user; shelf sharing is awkward and clunky2015-09-12
Technical books unreadable: equations are images and tables misformatted2009-02-10