Oh yes, as I was reading your message, another annoying "function" came to my mind, the "Stay here" option that sometimes appears in the right bottom corner of a book.
There are two scenarios for this:
1. If you look up a word in a dictionary (I mean if you definitely open the dictionary itself) and it has a link to another "page" (I know it isn't a page, but I can't find the right word for it), you jump there and earlier you could go back from the menu to the previous position and it didn't show anything like "Stay here". If you followed those links for example throughout a dictionary combined with thesaurus, then you were able to jump back to all those previous positions and at the same time you also had the ability to exit to the main list.
Now if you follow links in a dictionary, the "Stay here" shit appears always and you can only go back with "back to location" to just ONE position (thus this Stay here "status bar" is completely unnecessary) and you can jump back further via the arrow in the top left corner, but in this case you can't exit right to the main list, but instead you have to follow all your links back to the position where you opened the dictionary (this is that ONE offered by that "status bar"). Really annoying!
2. There are a lot of links in gamebooks as well. In this case though you won't get an arrow preventing you from exiting the book, but instead you'll get this "Stay here" bar by "clicking on" each link and it "saves" only the original location you have started the book from.
So it simply just prevents you from "cheating" but you might want to reread something or deliberately choose another path or option (aka cheat) then from now on you need to use "bookmarks"... For an activity that hasn't required bookmarking so far.
