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Mar. 29th, 2014 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semperfionaD'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.
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.
