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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Yes, tapping the link to a footnote may be a little easier than navigating to the link with a joypad and clicking... maybe...
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One touch vs several clicks. I don't see a maybe there.
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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?
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I think Amazon could solve this pretty easily. Add a 'back' touch button whenever a link is followed. Or, for that matter, keep a physical back button. All good smartphones have a physcal back button for various uses.
I don't think your argument speaks against or for any particular navigation method. It highlights a potential problem that needs a solution.
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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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I don't think there are any navigation issues with touch that can't easily be solved with a couple of extra buttons or a clever UI design. It's not a question of whether touch or physical buttons is the 'best' method of control. It's about what is best for each aspect of using a Kindle.
There are tablets and smartphones out there with only a few physical buttons (only 1 on the Apple devices if I'm not mistaken), so these issues are easily addressed.
I think Amazon have proven they care enough to come up with a control method that works easily. If they couldn't do this there wouldn't be so much skepticism about a potential new way of navigating the Kindle.