Products · Broad category
Online books
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2009–2026), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Online 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 6 complaints
- Can't find books that aren't AI-generated slop without date filtering2026-08-02
- Turning pages adds browser history entries, cluttering history so the back button becomes useless2021-05-26
- Many ebook store websites are poorly designed and hard to use2014-10-27
- Online book browsing lacks the wandering discovery of physical bookstores2013-10-01
- Footnotes without two-way links make readers get lost2010-04-26
- Hard to find most books from legitimate online sources2009-10-04