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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
The 2nd gen Kindle has the "back" feature. It's even called out specifically in the user guide. All since then have as well...I've never had the very first model, so don't know about that one.
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I honestly don't recall, now, which one(s) (Kindles, Nooks, whatever) lacked the Back functionality, but I know that early on, in the days when we were first starting to think about indexing, we encountered the reality that not everyone/every device has back functionality. This engendered bigtime issues, around the many-to-one problems in indices, in which you have multiple entries, in a given index, going to the same PAGE in a print book. You can't easily create a backlink, for, say, page 26, that will take the reader back to where she was, in the index,
if you have more than one inbound link.
I know that
I'd have loved to think that all devices had back buttons. It would have solved a
lot of headache for me. Not to mention, trying to explain the issues around multiple inbound targets, to a client, and getting readers "back" to where they were, in the index, is never fun.
Hitch