I’m hoping this has a single, simple, factual answer, though it might not.
I do a fair amount of reading using the Kindle apps for iPhone and iPad, especially the former. I’ll pull it out when I’m in an elevator or waiting in line and steal a few screens worth. It also means one less thing to carry when I’m taking public transit.
The only problem I’ve got is with foot/endnotes. In theory, they work great: tap on the link, read the note, tap on the link again and go back to where you were. Beats the hell out of endnotes, especially. (I hate endnotes, but that’s a different post.) The only problem is that, inevitably, the actual endnote text winds up with the link over on the left-hand side of the screen, and usually up near the top. So I try to click it and the UI comes up instead. Or the app interprets it as a “tap near the left side of the screen” and takes me back a page. Usually, with several attempts and more or less cursing, I manage to get back to my place–but just now, reading Oliver Sacks’s Hallucinations, I finally gave up and manually scrolled back to where I was. (Luckily, it was one of the shorter chapters, and the notes are at the end of each chapter, rather than at the end of the book.)
Is there some trick that I’m missing here, or is this just a limitation of the app?
