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Re:The Books of College Libraries Are Turning into Wallpaper by dredmorbius on Monday May 27, 2019 @08:33PM (#20026259)
The technical problems are largely trivial, and yet in over a quarter century's use of PDFs, mass-market readers fail to incorporate them. One might begin to suspect an incentives alignment failure within the industry.

I use a (reasonably good) Android reader which affords metadata presentation and editing, but lacks an "author" field.

Long since reported. Not fixed.

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Re:The Books of College Libraries Are Turning into Wallpaper by WalterBright on Monday May 27, 2019 @08:48PM (#20026311)
None of the issues I report ever get fixed, either. I don't bother reporting them anymore. I just complain on HN :-)

I remember on PDF reader on a tablet which would remember your last read position only in the last 3 PDFs you opened. Open another one, and one gets pushed off the bed. I simply cannot understand the train of thought that concluded that 3 was the lucky number here.

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Re:The Books of College Libraries Are Turning into Wallpaper by dredmorbius on Monday May 27, 2019 @10:31PM (#20026757)
I send Pocket long screeds and periodically re-share those to HN. May be due for another RSN.
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