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Originally Posted by j.p.s
OK, I'm busted as an ereading newbie, since I got my first reader, a K2, a little over 10 years ago. I had a Palm V, but never even considered using it to read books.
Not only does the K4NT have a back button, the K2 does as well. Although the K2 is not a K1, I'm pretty sure that in 2019 it qualifies as an early Kindle.
FWIW, I think it is fine to provide a backlink for footnotes, but demanding that the book itself know how to get back to one of many references is a bit absurd.
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There were LOTS of early eReaders besides the Kindles (K and K2). If you're going to ask for a list of all the eReaders that don't have back functionality, hell, I can't remember. I do recall issues with at LEAST two Kobos, for sure. And there's something noodling around inside my head about the K2's back functionality, too. I still have one but I'll have to power it up to see if I can jostle those brain cells into what it was that didn't work so great with the "back" button on the k2. I fully agree that by the K4, they certainly all had them.
I wish that they all had back functionality, because, brother, it would make my life dramatically easier. The many-to-one issue with eBooks is real and it's a major pita to explain to clients as to why it can't be done, or has to be done this way or that. I end up wasting at LEAST an hour of time with every client that INSISTS that they gotta have fully-linked, two-way indices with multiple outbound (from the index) links going to the same pages, articles/sections/whatever. It's a damn nightmare.
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