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Originally Posted by mattmc
(I know the thread has drifted, but I'm resurrecting an earlier line of thought.)
Odd. I went and tested this on an iPad 1 and a Retina iPad (so two different versions of iBooks) and couldn't get it to work. I tap the hyperlink, the black aura appears around the word, it hangs for a couple of seconds, then just goes away. I wonder if my book is simply so massive that iBooks takes too long to "summon" the text and the action gets killed halfway through.
 You'd think they would just have a back button...
I know Nook doesn't, and Kobo, anyone else? |
Some of the Droid-based smartphone readers don't. Um..Early Sonys? I believe? The issue, for me as a commercial bookmaker is that once you say "Nook and Kobo," that's a good 50%+, maybe 80% (for many clients, 100% of their distro) of my
ePUB distribution, so...I'm stuck. The Kindle, Kindle2, early K3's (that's an IIRC, mind you) didn't have "back" buttons that worked, I don't believe. I have a K2, but honestly, right this second, the battery is drained and I can't confirm my recollection. (Pretty sure, tho).
So...by the time you have millions (ye gods) of early Kindle devices, add in what, hundreds of thousands of Nooks, and some tens of or hundreds of thousands of Kobos...no choice for the wicked. ;-)
Not to mention, there are SO many other things that use two-way links...{shrug}. It's nutty to rely on the kindness of strange devices. :-D
Hitch