I believe our UX could be better for new users — people who aren't regulars on gutenberg.org yet, who may have heard of PG or stumbled upon it while browsing, but who aren't "sold" yet and probably haven't figured out their personal best way of getting and reading free ebooks.
A good amount of improvement has already been made on this front — the updated "Reading Options" and "Bibrec" pages for instance, and also the homepage update that's in the works now. But I think more can be done and would be very worthwhile: every barrier we lower for new readers directly serves PG's mission of encouraging the distribution of eBooks.
This is a general observation and an open question. What exactly to do about it is the real question. If I recall @Rowan-McKereghan once suggested to add short explainer videos for the different Reading Options; that's exactly the sort of thing that would be helpful to new users and I'm sure more ideas like that can be had ...
I believe our UX could be better for new users — people who aren't regulars on gutenberg.org yet, who may have heard of PG or stumbled upon it while browsing, but who aren't "sold" yet and probably haven't figured out their personal best way of getting and reading free ebooks.
A good amount of improvement has already been made on this front — the updated "Reading Options" and "Bibrec" pages for instance, and also the homepage update that's in the works now. But I think more can be done and would be very worthwhile: every barrier we lower for new readers directly serves PG's mission of encouraging the distribution of eBooks.
This is a general observation and an open question. What exactly to do about it is the real question. If I recall @Rowan-McKereghan once suggested to add short explainer videos for the different Reading Options; that's exactly the sort of thing that would be helpful to new users and I'm sure more ideas like that can be had ...