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Sony Digital Paper
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 6 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Pen latency makes writing lag behind the strokeUnreviewed
20132026- Pen latency is poor, so writing lags behind the stroke2018-05-22
- Pen strokes show up with noticeable delay and page transitions feel jarring2017-04-12
- Pen input lags too much, so annotating doesn't feel as natural as paper2014-03-28
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
- The default e-reader interface could be better, so the user switches to hacks2025-03-24
- Pen latency is poor, so writing lags behind the stroke2018-05-22
- Pen strokes show up with noticeable delay and page transitions feel jarring2017-04-12
- Annotation software on the Surface is lackluster for technical reading2017-04-10
- E-ink display is slow to refresh and less snappy than a lit screen2015-07-28
- Pen input lags too much, so annotating doesn't feel as natural as paper2014-03-28
- Slow and cumbersome; must connect it every time to transfer files2014-03-28
- Stray palms and wrists would register on the screen, making it unusable for note-taking2014-03-28
- Sony devices have horrible user interfaces and poor overall usability2014-03-28
- Pressing a word freezes the device for several minutes about a third of the time2013-09-03