Hyperink Crowd Reader
Productivity
ebook reader
SHOW HN2012
Hyperink Crowd Reader
Jeff Atwood's "Effective Programming" on Hyperink's new Crowd Reader
hyperink.com#ebook reader#social reading#web reader#effective programming#hyperink
How HN took it
6 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 12 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score -0.33.
Design: 2 for, 5 againstIdea: 4 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clean typography and smooth reading experience
From 3 comments
I liked the UI/UX. The typography is very nice. I would make the right bar optional and add to it an option to write notes. Thank you Michael, great work!
LaSombra on HNHi Michael, nice to talk to the engineer of the product. I purchased this book last week and it's pretty good. The reading experience is smooth. What I would like to suggest is…
sidcool on HNHi Michael. Congratulations on building a very good product. It's probably the best web-based e-reader I've seen, apart from the 'social' bits. No doubt the great majority of…
tmpaccount on HN
Heart-highlight feature is a good idea, sorting by hearts suggested
From 2 comments
Looks good. The "heart" on paragraphs is cool -- now just make it so you can sort by hearts for a quick view of highlights. You could then jump to a selected paragraph in the…
pfraze on HNI second this. Being able to pick out the most hearted segments across an entire chapter, even the entire book, would make it easy to skim chapters. I could look at the top…
lucidusvenerat on HN
Objections
Scrolling is buggy and uneven in Chrome and Firefox
From 3 comments
Scrolling is severely buggy in Chrome (20.0.1132.57 on OS X) and partially buggy in Firefox (13.0). I did some screen captures. #1…
lobster_johnson on HNI can confirm this. My scroll wheel is very easy to move one increment at a time, and repeatedly moving down one then up one increment results in text moving upwards about 4…
alainbryden on HNHi Michael. The scroll is different from OS Scroll. It is much slower, moving at a pixel per scroll wheel event. Also [space] doesn't do page down. Running Chromium 18.0.1025.168…
adamzochowski on HN
Social features are unwanted annoyance for some readers
From 1 comment
Hi Michael. Congratulations on building a very good product. It's probably the best web-based e-reader I've seen, apart from the 'social' bits. No doubt the great majority of…
tmpaccount on HN
Reading experience is cumbersome on iPad portrait mode
From 1 comment
The reading experience is a bit cumbersome on the iPad, in portrait mode. I'd kill the social sidebar if in iPad mode...I'm not likely to use the social bar when at my iPad, but…
danso on HN
UI closely copies Inkling reader
From 2 comments
Solid Inkling ripoff. Well done!
securetoken on HNThe UX is so constrained that you had no choice other than to straight up copy: a) a control to hide the table of contents with a semi-transparent strip hover; b) a table of…
jforman on HN
Requests
Sort or filter by hearts to view highlights
From 2 comments
Looks good. The "heart" on paragraphs is cool -- now just make it so you can sort by hearts for a quick view of highlights. You could then jump to a selected paragraph in the…
pfraze on HNI second this. Being able to pick out the most hearted segments across an entire chapter, even the entire book, would make it easy to skim chapters. I could look at the top…
lucidusvenerat on HN
Option to hide social features
From 1 comment
Hi Michael. Congratulations on building a very good product. It's probably the best web-based e-reader I've seen, apart from the 'social' bits. No doubt the great majority of…
tmpaccount on HN
Horizontal scrolling like Google reader
From 1 comment
Hi Michael, nice to talk to the engineer of the product. I purchased this book last week and it's pretty good. The reading experience is smooth. What I would like to suggest is…
sidcool on HN
Optional right sidebar and note-taking
From 1 comment
I liked the UI/UX. The typography is very nice. I would make the right bar optional and add to it an option to write notes. Thank you Michael, great work!
LaSombra on HN
Remember reading position when sidebar toggles
From 1 comment
And when I toggle the left pane open and closed, the text apparently reformats for the difference in widths, leaving me to have to scroll back up or further down to find where I…
raintrees on HN
Questions
Why scroll wheel delta is asymmetric between up and down
From 2 comments
I'm a little baffled by this report, but I don't at all suspect it's inaccurate. I'm on the same version of Chrome on OSX on a macbook air (where I developed the custom…
neoveller on HNI can confirm this. My scroll wheel is very easy to move one increment at a time, and repeatedly moving down one then up one increment results in text moving upwards about 4…
alainbryden on HN
Alternatives named
Inkling
From 2 comments
This reading app has wonderful UX — my feedback is somewhat biased, admittedly, because it's ripped straight off from us (Inkling): http://tinyurl.com/inkling-frommers-france…
jforman on HNSolid Inkling ripoff. Well done!
securetoken on HN