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

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Pity that you cannot get a preview without logging in. Judging by the other comments this gripe is shared by many visitors. A pity for you that you have to waste your moment in the HN limelight to get to this insight. I hope you take it to heart.

Hey - We do understand your point of view and of others on the thread. This is our beta launch and as your will appreciate that many things are in WIP :-) Do check user and book pages https://readerschatter.com/readerschatter BTW we will do some tests and arrive at more researched and tested home page. As on the internet, many people do keep a login page like this. So its also a matter of choice and we took that opti…

But can you name one page that makes me login with twitter and asks for permission to send tweets from my account and read my dms? Why do you need to read my dms and write tweets in my name?

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 jo…

Very true. You seem to have worked on this :-) Trying to solve this problem. Will try to post you.

And then there's the question of whether you want to consider translations to be equivalent.
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