Project Gutenberg

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Project Gutenberg, 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 5 complaints

Site is slow to load and initially fails, requiring a retry2026-05-15
Search bar hidden behind a link partway down the page2026-05-15
Narration pauses, intonation and word spacing are off, so listening takes lots of effort2023-09-12
Ebook text has no paragraph breaks and footnotes don't work without manual scrolling2021-04-01
Hard line breaks and repeated headers and page numbers make the text messy to read2015-02-24