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Originally Posted by phillipgessert
I think you made a point that you would know to click because you know it's an HTML/hypertext doc.
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As far as I'm concerned, it's not because I know it's HTML, but because I know it's a device where can click/touch on things to do stuff. I can swipe to turn the page, why shouldn't I be able to touch what looks like a footnote mark to see the footnoe? Why shouldn't I be able to touch the titles in TOC to go to the stories/chapters, even if they're not underlined?
It's like right-clicking on GUI programs to get a context menu. Once I learnt that's a thing, I try it whenever I think it might be useful, I don't need an indicator that I can do it. Sometimes I'm disappointed I don't get anything or not what I'm looking for, but quite often it works as expected.
(Of course, there's an initial barrier. The first time I got in contact with Windows it was around version 3.0. I spent about a week opening the desktop, dragging the icons around, and closing it in confusion. Until someone told me that I had to double-click to open the programs... Now I use KDE on linux and have double-click disabled
But my point: someone using a touch-screen e-reader has already passed that barrier.)