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Originally Posted by ksimpson1986
Just to make this clear. DiapDealer is right, they are not really links per-se...at least not how i'm trying to display them. i have 1500 index entries to this eBook all dynamically created through sigil. at the back of the eBook is the index of course, when you find a word you're looking for in the index and click it, it jumps to that word in the book. these words in the book are NOT return links. you can't press them, nor do they need to be pressable(clickable)...it's only a one way "link". there's no reason for them to be glowing blue. now after more research, i have found that it's ONLY ibooks that displays those "linked" words as blue. no other ereader does. given the info above, i was able to eliminate the unnecessary blue words for day mode and sepia mode. I understand it can be up the ereader, but if there's a night mode option that will even give a chance of eliminating the blue text on night mode, i'll take it. i appreciate you guys' help.
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You didn't provide them with "back" links, in the words?
Well, to each their own. As so many eReaders don't have the "back" functionality, we do embed back jumps. (This next bit isn't particularly directed to you; it's to others that may come along and read this down the road.)
If you think about how people use indices, generally, it's a browsing/grazing environment. They want to look up the info in the book on, say, "Irish Setters." Your book may have that information in myriad spots, those spots shown in 4 or more different spots in the Index.
For example: Setters, Irish; Irish Setters; Setters; Hunting Dogs; Family Dogs and so on. In each of those main listings, you may have a large number of listings below it. So, if I rummage around over to "Setters, Irish," and below that I see 4 different options--and I click to get into the book, then what happens?
After I read the first, and want to go read the rest, do I have to "go to" menu, go to the TOC, click into the Index, click something else (A-B-C...) to winnow the search, and then manually search/scroll
back down to Setters, Irish, so that I can see the other 3 options?
I mention this only because we've spent a lot of time about usability issues in eBooks, particularly as they relate to indices. While it's certainly true that someone may look up a single thing, find it, and be happy, it's a lot more likely that they'll browse, click, read, and then want to get back to where they were, to resume the browsing, clicking, and so on.
Offered solely FWIW.
Hitch