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.
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.<p>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.
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