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I'd strongly recommend putting some description of what this actually is. I feel like I should know within the first minute or so of being on a site what exactly the site does, and I can't tell that by your website.

Agree. I have no idea what this site is or is supposed to do.

Hey there HN, good morning!

Meet Bubblin - Youtube of Flipbooks. We simplify book-writing and publishing. Make it as simple as a blog.

Nice intro - if you put this at the top of the page instead of "Tell a Story", everybody understands what your page is about! :-)

Done! Added the intro to the home page.

Very cool idea. Not sure I could tell exactly what it was when I landed though.

Interface wise the expand to full screen was so small it ended up looking like an X (aka close). So I clicked it and it annoyingly went full screen. Not bad just something that I noticed.

good job.

This seems like a step in the wrong direction when it comes to the online reading experience.

- can't save it for offline reading

- can't scroll, have to scroll and flip through fake paper book

- can't search inside the book

- resizing text can cause pages to be cut off

Why would I read it on bubbl.in when I can read it like this? http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25420/25420-h/25420-h.htm

or any other format I want? http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25420

1. You can scroll to flip through the book using SPACEBAR! Bubblin is iPad first though, that's where people read books/magazines.

2. Search is something we're still working on.

3. Resizing text will NOT have any effect on the book, we've taken care of that.

1. I would still have to scroll down the (web) page and flip the (bubblin) pages. In any case, if I'm on a tablet, I would rather scroll through the book with my finger (like a web page) instead of flipping between pages.

2. Awesome. Search is one of the top reasons I prefer reading ebooks.

3. I was getting text cut off from the bottom of the page at larger text sizes. Firefox 26 on Ubuntu 13.10

Hey @oftenwrong we're head over heels to get search in place. Just finished setting up Thinking_Sphinx moments ago!

> Text-cut off from the bottom.

Have noted the issue. We will get it right on Ubuntu as well.

On my MBP 13" non retina book pages do not fit the screen, so you must go up + down at every page, which is frustrating. You should reflow text so that it fits a screen without scrolling

Hi tigroferoce, this Bubblin is iPad first. Works really well when you read a book on iPad2+.

We're yet to optimize for laptops and big-screen iMacs, but this one is on top of our task-list!

Nice work.

I can imagine it would be appreciated that the page jumps to top when you turned a page, don't you think?

On iPad it feels better to have a page flipping effect but on desktop instant jump felt easier on the nerves. Can optimize, thanks for the suggestion sir.

Right now on Desktop you can scroll using the SPACEBAR.

I love the picture of central Italy (right?) but I'm not sure what the site is for.

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