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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
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.
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I almost never read any Kindle books, and never on an Android, so I don't know why Amazon doesn't support that. On my Nook, it displays a back button that goes away after any sort of navigation, but it's simple to add a bookmark before jumping to the other section if you expect to need to read more than one page. Of course, if you're not used to using the reader's bookmark function, I can see why you might feel that the ebook reader is much worse than the print edition.
I have read books where each footnote has an explicit link back to the original location. While that's not feasible when the text links to a later section of the book to link back to the original link, in the other example he used of test questions and answers, it's quite sensible to link every question to its answer and vice versa.