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Originally Posted by NullNix
The new UI's approach to navigation is wildly irregular, ridiculously frustrating, and generally horrible.
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I very much agree, and to share my own anecdote, I came to the Kindle world rather late (I believe I got my first Kindle - and first e-reader for that matter - in 2018). At that point, mobile UIs had mostly stabilized to what we have today, i.e. similar to the new Kindle UI. As I was playing around with my new toy, I was taken aback by how useful the "back" button was. I didn't miss it on the phone or tablet, but it felt like such a natural function for an e-reader, where you don't normally swap randomly across multiple apps. Search for something, then search for something else, check the Wikipedia page, click a couple of links, and then hit back a few times and you're back to reading. I loved it.