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Re: Show HN: ReadersChatter – Come start a chatter on a book

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Cool idea. One thing that’s annoying about dealing with books (not just this platform in particular) is that there can be multiple editions of the same book where the contents are essentially the same. This is especially true for work that is really old or in the public domain. E.g. if I put “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” in the search field, it turns up many different editions. I’m not sure which conversation to join. I get the feeling that the conversation/community might get fragmented all over the place.

Unfortunately I don’t have a real solution to this, short of crowdsourcing for data entry to mark editions as equivalent and merge the conversations that way.

Re: Show HN: ReadersChatter – Come start a chatter on a book

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I'm intrigued. But tell me more pleaae before I hand over my Twitter handle.

Kind of annoying though, from the description it looked like something interesting, but looks like you can even see a glimpse of anything unless you login with Twitter.

Ideally some content/information/description should be shown to make the user decide if it is worthwhile or not, but sadly it is not the case.

Re: Show HN: ReadersChatter – Come start a chatter on a book

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Is there a way to use it without connecting to Twitter? I don’t have a twitter account.

Hey, thanks for your interest, sure would share the good update soon, it's on the way.

I think you could have waited till you got that ready before posting the link on to HN, now most of the discussion here will be likely to be about the Twitter login requirements.
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