One note - I happened to have my screen quite narrow when I opened it and as the menu-bar wrapped around it obscured the "Import Chapter from Url" button. The introductory guide pointed to where it thought the button should be but it was just highlighting a corner of the "Feedback and Support" button.
Show HN: Papyrus,a simple way to create ebooks
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Re: Show HN: Papyrus,a simple way to create ebooks
#42Hello HN, I have been building Papyrus for the past few months. It is a simple web app that allows people to create ebooks easily. Would love to hear your feedback.
Re: Show HN: Papyrus,a simple way to create ebooks
#43This looks like a nice service. I could see myself using it. One thing I noticed on the front page is that you do strange things with punctuation. Examples: "Import the contents from the web . Convert your blog to a book in one click." Notice the space before the first period. "Papyrus lets you create books in pdf,epub,kindle formats." No spaces after commas and no 'and' before 'kindle'. Also, there is no space betwe…
Thanks for the feedback. Will fix it soon.
Re: Show HN: Papyrus,a simple way to create ebooks
#44Re: Show HN: Papyrus,a simple way to create ebooks
#45It's black and white and red all over. Please tell me you deliberately chose that color scheme for that reason. You'd be my hero if you did.
To be honest, I am not a designer myself.Experimented with a few colors, this looked decent and pushed it.
"What's black and white and red all over" A newspaper. It's a play on words where "red" is supposed to be "read". I thought maybe you had that in mind when you chose the colors. It would be really clever and funny if you did. If anyone ever asks you that you should totally tell them yes. I bet they'd get a kick out of that.