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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
Some of the examples they note are just lazy ebook editing. For example, there's no reason why "see page 29 for scoring" couldn't have a hyperlink to the start of the section to which it's referring, and there's no reason why each answer couldn't have a hyperlink back to the question. If I were using that book, I'd probably ask for a refund also.
Also, the author seems to forget that while many ebooks have a poorer user experience when read on a greylevel reader, many people read on a color phone or tablet, or can switch to one if it's necessary because of color images. Finally, while phone apps and websites might make better travel guides, an ebook might be more useful if one doesn't have access to cellular data, and it might be easier to create bookmarks before going to the destination over trying to make notes in an app or using bookmarks on a web page.
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If you are using the Kindle app on an Android tablet the link to another area of the book is useless. There is no way to get back to where you were when you clicked the link. When I use Moon+ and click on the same link I get an arrow to return back to where I was. The Kindle app used to be able to go back when you hit the back button but that was removed a long time ago. It was also very annoying if you had clicked a bunch of links. If you tried to use the back button to exit, you needed to hit back the number of times you used links before you could exit. This also lost your place in the book. I guess Amazon wasn't smart enough to figure out how to fix this and just got rid of it completely.