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[semperfiona]

D'oh. Despite generally loving my new Kindle Fire to pieces, I had one big complaint. I've been reading Terry Pratchett's new book Raising Steam, which like many of his books has many footnotes. When I got to the first one, I clicked the link to read it, and then could not figure out how to get back to my place. All I could do was restart the book and page forward until I found the place again.

Obviously that was highly frustrating, so I've been reading without following the footnote links. Finally this evening I thought to look for help online. Turns out all I had to do to return to my place was to tap the footnote number on the footnote page. Somehow I never managed to guess that.

I'm going to restart the book so I can get the proper effect of the footnotes.

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On the other hand, I have entirely fallen in love with the Swype input mode that comes with the Fire. It's amazing how quickly I input this using just my right index finger!

Now I'm frustrated when I have to use my iPhone to input any quantity of text. I keep trying to swipe it, and all that happens is that the current letter changes.

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[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Swype is the best thing about android.