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Hardcover books
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 3 threads.
People raised many different problems with Hardcover 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 4 complaints
- App is slow and sluggish with frequent UI glitches2025-05-04
- Want to Read button takes 100-200ms before anything shows or becomes clickable2023-10-03
- Adding books one by one is slow, and the Want to Read button takes 100-200ms to respond2023-10-03
- Hardcover editions are too bulky and awkward to carry and read2011-09-05