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Originally Posted by djgreedo
Touch can open up the device for more functionality and ease of use. Personal preferences aside I can't imagine anyone asserting that it is easier to use the clicky buttons to visit a footnote link halfway down the page than simply touching the little superscript number with your finger.
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Actually, you bring up a very valid point that
I was wondering about.
Yes, tapping the link to a footnote may be a little easier than navigating to the link with a joypad and clicking... maybe... but here's my question. If the ebook creator didn't create a link in the footnote back to the calling text (as they very commonly don't do), how would you get back to where you were reading, on a touch-screen reader with
only page turn buttons? Is there a special "Back" swipe?
I'm genuinely curious. Because right now, if there's no return link in the footnote or appendix entry, pressing the "Back" button gets me right back to my place in the text. Quick as a wink.
It seems to me that a touch-only reader (or a reader with only two page turn buttons) could actually
hinder in-book navigation--if the ebook wasn't created with the necessary links to make it easy. If I'm completely wrong and there is no issue here, then great. But otherwise, I'd rather not have to rely on the ebook producer to take care of my in-book navigation needs.