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Originally Posted by rudykerkhoven
Gwen,
What problems are you having with navigating the links? Remember the back button (if you're using a kindle) is extremely useful, as it lets you go backwards.
I thought of using location points, but I don't know how to find/calculate the location number for a particular spot. James Reed mentioned a few malfunctioning hyperlinks in his version (which was an earlier one), so please tell me if you come along one. It seems to work just fine on my Mac app...
Thanks again for giving it a try!
Rudy
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When I try to select a link, before I get the "hand" pointer on the Kindle 3 wifi screen, I get a cursor and then an angled cursor. I'm not sure what they're for (maybe highlighting?) but sometimes I can't get them to change to the hand-pointer. If I get too impatient I start to mash buttons and then Weird Things Happen with the kindle. I file this one under user error because if I could be bothered to read the manual I'd probably have a better idea what's happening and be able to activate my hand cursor to follow the link.
Sometimes when I hit my "back" button the page doesn't go back right away. I get impatient and I click "back" again and it jumps back twice. If this happens with your CYOA book, it doesn't go "back" two links in my reading history. It drops me into a (seemingly) random section of the book I can't identify. Because I had no locations to keep track of along the way, I can't get back into my reading stream. It's the equivalent of dropping the paper book and equally frustrating.
Both these issues are triggered by my overly-impatient clicky-clicky tendencies. There may be *some* slight mechanical or software issues on the part of the Kindle, but I'm sure at least 99% of the problem is me consuming too much caffeine
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Actually, thinking about this now, telling you this may still be valuable information. Just because I know what I'm doing doesn't mean all your readers will.