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Kobo
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 10 threads.
People raised many different problems with Kobo, 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
- Page count doesn't track actual page flips, which the commenter finds annoying2026-07-29
- Slow page transitions and screen flicker on every page turn2025-12-16
- Kobo DRM books only open in its buggy reader app2025-10-17
- Can't find support contact; chat bot loops back to docs, refund unclear2025-02-17
- Couldn't get comfortable with it; page turning without physical buttons felt hard2024-06-28
- Forced account creation on first setup, only bypassed by hacking a config file2023-12-13
- Touchscreen so sensitive it randomly turns pages in a pocket2019-08-12
- Ereader is a bit slow to interact with and doesn't sync sideloaded books2018-06-02
- Zooming and panning PDFs is a pain on larger page sizes2011-11-23
- Fixed-size fonts in ebooks display tiny on the Kobo, forcing a DRM-removal and fixing workflow2010-09-28