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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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.
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The Nook Color has a little "BACK" tab that pops up on the screen when you leap to a link...
...but it seems fussy to me. If the footnote spans more than two pages and you swipe forward to the next page, the "BACK" tab goes away, which is very annoying.
Sometimes if you tap madly -- double tab, back swiping, etc. -- the system will pop you back to the page you were on, but if there's a specific gesture that triggers it, I don't know what it is. (Wasn't included in the swiffy Nook Color tutorial video.
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I don't use the NC stock reader anymore, but my husband was using it to read a technical programming book the other day, and I kept hearing grumbles from his corner of the room every time he tried to navigate through the book links.
