Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Physical books
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Physical 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
- Physical books require holding them open and fiddling with bookmarks, which is annoying2026-09-15
- Heavy paper books need two hands and snap shut when released2024-04-23
- Glossy pages stick together, and finding content means constant flipping back and forth2019-09-16
- Photography book layouts are very hard to translate to digital format2015-05-03