Hacker News Reader

Try to adhere to the Hacker News Guidelines. I apologize for being annoying but we all benefit from trying to make better posts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

If you scroll down a bit you get a option to download a nice epub for your reading pleasure.

I definitely agree with the others that the tone and content of this comment is a net negative and should be avoided.

"We'd be deeply grateful if you'd join the 1 in 1000 users that support us financially."

And not only that, they have a lot of source code on GitHub, so anyone with an annoyance and some free time can fix things up: https://github.com/internetarchive/bookreader

I wish they'd allow crowd sourcing of metadata updates, their metadata is really really bad and can't be fixed.