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Old 06-16-2021, 02:12 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
Amazon's Kindle Previewer assumes that content which is organized using pairs of matching forward and back links is a footnote and should presented as a popup when the forward link is clicked. This works correctly in most cases but as your EPUB demonstrates it can cause problems if forward/back link pairs are used for navigation within a book's content.

You can fix this by changing the page layout so that forward links do not link directly to back links. For example by changing :

| PreviousSect | HomeIdx | NextSect |

to instead be:

| HomeIdx | PreviousSect | NextSect |

It works. Thanks a lot!

In addition, I checked "Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines", and found out another solution so that I can keep my original layout.

I just replaced the value of "PrevousSect" href:
.../feed_0/index.html
with
.../feed_0/index.html#article_0

Here is the related information from the section 7.1 of "Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines":
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Amazon requires formatting footnotes with bi-directional hyperlinks (the text is linked to the footnote and the footnote is linked back to the text). This makes it easier for customers to return to the text after viewing the footnote. On some devices, the footnote is displayed in a pop-up window.

To avoid unintended footnote pop-ups, internal links that are not footnotes should not be formatted with bi-directional hyperlinks (A links to B and B links to A). Non-footnote links should use the format A links to B and B links to C instead. For example, links from a chapter-level table of contents to a chapter section should link back to the chapter heading.
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