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Originally Posted by Hitch
Given the problem with night-mode, and that many readers don't recognize color:inherit for the color, what are you doing for links that need to be recognized as links in the book? And does whatever you do work on all platforms?
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I don't claim to have the perfect solution.
Personally, I don't often find, if ever, links that must be recognized as links. As I think I have said elsewhere, I, as a user, expect some "obvious" things to be links, like references to chapter names or numbers, footnotes, etc. Those, I style with "color: inherit; text-decoration: none". Fortunately the reader I use supports that, and I don't care too much about those that don't, since I don't have clients
If I was asked to make links stand out, I'd probably choose some colour other than blue (at least change the hue and quality of the default blue) and/or add a border instead of an underline, just to be different.
This applies to the body of a book. I don't care so much about how links may look in the copyright page (when you may have some URL links) or, for instance, the "back" link in footnotes.