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Originally Posted by j.p.s
I would hate to lose the back button. That is one of the best parts of using a kindle.
I suspect no one (with power) on the kindle team actually uses a kindle.
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It was not so great IMO. You did not always know where it was going to take you, and if you tapped it one too many times it could be hard to get back to the context that you accidentally skipped over. Now the back icon is usually labelled.
I think it was borrowed from Android, where there is always a system Back button available, even when there is nothing to go back to, which does not make a lot of sense.
And the behavior was quite different than using the Kindle apps for Android and iOS. It's now consistent. For those of us who read on different platforms a consistent experience is a good thing.
Yes, there are some use cases that were permitted by the ancient UI and are no longer supported. But they're edge cases, like jumping around in dictionaries.