How do you get references to point back to old page?

eli2k · 11-28-2013, 03:14 PM

So I have text in HTML with references that I converted to ePub with Calibre. Everything looks fine. There's a ton of text at the beginning and a References section at the end. I was able to hyperlink the in-text reference (superscript 1, etc) to the appropriate listing in References.

I read this exclusively on the ipad (it's just for me), so in the ipad they have a back link at the bottom that takes me back to the page I just came from. Is there a different method of going back to the original page? My references are list as numbered references. Not sure if there's an ipad specific "url link" that will take it back. Sometimes the same reference is mentioned more than once in the text, so I can't simply give each text-reference an ID in the <a> tag, and have each reference link to that.

Thank you for any insight.

mrmikel · 11-28-2013, 06:31 PM

If there is more than one reference, then you have to have several return to links, which is clunky. That is what is required on the PRS-300, on others, there is a back button which can do this job.

11-28-2013, 03:14 PM	#1
eli2k Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: DPT-S1, Nexus 7, iPad Mini 2, iPad 1G	How do you get references to point back to old page? So I have text in HTML with references that I converted to ePub with Calibre. Everything looks fine. There's a ton of text at the beginning and a References section at the end. I was able to hyperlink the in-text reference (superscript 1, etc) to the appropriate listing in References. I read this exclusively on the ipad (it's just for me), so in the ipad they have a back link at the bottom that takes me back to the page I just came from. Is there a different method of going back to the original page? My references are list as numbered references. Not sure if there's an ipad specific "url link" that will take it back. Sometimes the same reference is mentioned more than once in the text, so I can't simply give each text-reference an ID in the <a> tag, and have each reference link to that. Thank you for any insight.

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11-28-2013, 06:31 PM	#2
mrmikel Color me gone Posts: 2,089 Karma: 1445295 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central Oregon Coast Device: PRS-300	If there is more than one reference, then you have to have several return to links, which is clunky. That is what is required on the PRS-300, on others, there is a back button which can do this job.

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