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Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by steven_pack »

pgt wrote: post #14

No call-to-action above the fold? Struggling to give you my email address.

Thanks, I only want your email address when you've chosen a book. But yes, you're not guided to that well enough. The UI today is very much a template with some content replaced rather than being designed from the ground up to optimize for the sign up flow. Lots of opportunity to improve that.

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by steven_pack »

miguelrochefort wrote: post #19

- I couldn't find a way to get a list of short non-fiction books sorted by popularity. - After entering my email address, I get a 500 error.

I exhausted the free tier on the email service, which unfortunately killed the sign up page. Works now if you want to go again.

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by steven_pack »

musikele wrote: post #25
steven_pack wrote: post #2

Maker here. AMA! Happy Thanksgiving!

500 error. Also, please send "a bunch of pages" at the time"

500 is fixed... you can request additional pages from a footer link in the email, but requesting 5 or 10 would be good.

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by hombre_fatal »

sandoooo wrote: post #20

Implement this as an android app instead of email. Have a system where I can open a random page of a book in a genre as many times as I want for free, and I can continue reading from that page, but if I read through x continuous pages I have automatically bought the book (or a chapter of it) and it goes in my library.

Here's a service that gives you the first page of a random book. From there you can choose to reveal which book it is:

https://www.recommendmeabook.com/

I think it's brilliant for getting the ball rolling, no matter how small, on a book I would otherwise probably never read if I were just picking among titles.

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by steven_pack »

heymartinadams wrote: post #55

Hi Steven, great idea, just signed up (I’m one of those too busy to read, so no excuse now). Feel free to include my published book as well; it’s copyrighted in the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0. https://www.unitism.com/

Hey there... so I've been considering user uploaded content. I think it could be a great alternative medium for self-publishing. Needs a bit more work, but I'll post back here if I release that.

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by steven_pack »

steven_pack wrote: post #45
4d66ba06 wrote: post #18

Cool idea! Getting: "Request failed with status 500" when trying to subscribe to "Walking"

Thanks for this... No errors in the logs, so time to review the error handling code!

Ah, burned through the free limit on the email service. Back up now. :D
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