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Old 08-26-2015, 05:05 PM   #55
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Device: iPad 1/2/Air, K3/PW2/Fire1, Kobo Touch, Samsung Tab, Nook Color/Touch
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Originally Posted by Doitsu View Post
I tested my modified test file only with iBooks 3.2 and the first aside footnote, [1], which is defined in a separate .xhtml file worked (the two rearnotes didn't).

What iBooks versions did you install on the iPad 1 and Retina iPad?

Why don't you retest this issue with my test file? If it works, your footnote .xhtml file or the aside definitions might simply be too large.
Ah! Sorry that I wasn't clear. Your test file did work fine, no problemo. It was testing my file on iBooks 3.2 and iBooks 3.0 that didn't work. So yes, I suspect that my files are just too massive. Sigh.

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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
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
Okay, good to know on the Droid readers, thanks! And yeah, obviously just doing a back link is preferable, if possible. Far more compatibility, there.

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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Kindles have always had a "back" button. It used to be explicitly recommended in Amazon's Kindle publishing guidelines that Kindle footnotes shouldn't have a back link, because the user could just press the "back" button.
Indeed, I have a K1 now, and I can confirm that it has a back button.

(The K1 is trippy and interesting, btw, with its asymmetrical shape and that little shiny line dancing line on the side. Kinda retro. Makes me think of like, Dr. Who or something, even though I've never seen that show.)
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