So I'm a big fan of Kobo, and with the latest firmware update the device is even better. I have two single complaints left with it, and since one of those two issues (that it ignores imbedded fonts) just got its own thread, I figured I'd start one for the other
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The books I purchase from Kobo are about 50% fiction, 50% non-fiction. The books I read on my Kobo are 90% fiction. The problem, of course, is footnote links. The books that I've bought that have them, I'm just sitting on for now, waiting for Kobo to implement one crucial feature to make them readable.
Currently I have two options: When I get to a footnote, I can attempt to use the index to browse to the "footnotes" section, then page through until I find the right one, then use the index to go back to the chapter I was in and page through to where I was. This just flat out isn't going to happen. Do other people do this?
My other choice is to read the book ignoring the footnotes, and then read them all in a bunch at the end of the book. This it really, really useless. I've chosen the third option of waiting until Kobo implements a link-clicking feature.
Here's a possible solution: whenever the book is on a page with links on it, the up/down arrows switch from "text size" mode (which can still be changed from the "display" menu) to "select links" mode, where each click up/down moves you to the next/previous link on the page. Pressing "select" (center on the d-pad) activates the link and sends you to the footnote.
If anyone has better suggestions, please share. If you've ever read a book with a footnote and this sounds good to you, please make some noise! If you haven't, but it sounds like a good idea anyway, feel free to make some noise too