iBooks

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2010–2021), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with iBooks, 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 10 complaints

Downloaded book gets offloaded to the cloud, so it's unavailable on a flight2021-09-29
Books randomly disappear from devices and can only be restored with internet access2018-10-19
Unclear which iBooks are part of the curriculum and where to start2017-05-24
Page turn animation lags for a split second and feels rough2012-11-16
Forced two-page landscape layout and no pinch zoom make text small and hard to read2012-10-23
Tapping the wrong margin turns the page instead of showing controls, with no clear safe tap area2011-12-26
Someone couldn't tell how to reach the other side of pages in landscape mode; pieces of pages act as buttons2011-11-03
Page-curl animation is superfluous and makes reading feel slower2010-06-25
Can't easily change paragraph font; reading experience is fragmented across separate apps2010-06-24
All ~800 titles sit in one pile that is very slow to scroll through2010-06-23