Hello, I have been using the Kindle app for iOS for several years. Mostly, I read self-help or fitness books on it, and for the most part, find it fairly accessible and usable. However, I ran into a snag when I bought a Bible study e-book. That’s when I discovered that the Kindle app apparently has no back button. Has anyone figured out a workaround to the lack of a back button in this app? This problem manifest when I click on a link from one part of the book to another, and then want to return to the place I clicked from. Being that there is no back button, there is no way to get back there. Unless I go to the table of contents and somehow figure out how I got where I started in the first place. Can anyone offer any suggestions? This is an extremely aggravating problem. Thank you!
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bookmarks
I don't think there's a way to go back from a link. However, you could make a bookmark on the page you're at before using the link and then just return to it.
What about scrub?
Does the 2 finger scrub gesture not work with Kindle?
Scrubbing throws you out of the current book you’re in.
If you do the scrub command in the book, it just throws you out of the book and brings you back into your library list. As for bookmarks, it might be the only way, but it would be very clunky, because you would forever be adding bookmarks as you navigate through the book that you would want to delete because you wouldn’t want to build a list of thousands of marks. The way the Bible study book works is that it’s a huge cross reference with thousands of links already Built to allow you to navigate through various resources, topics, books, chapters, and even down to the verse level. The book itself has over 10,000 pages. That’s why a back button would be so very helpful.
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I agree with previous posters. I have a few books in my own private collection, which seem to be very difficult to navigate inside of. I believe it boils down to how the book was created, formatting and such. Most books in the Kindle app worked beautifully, but some are just horrible. Sorry I don't have any additional suggestions to assist you with. However, it was mentioned that you may be trying to navigate inside of a Bible book? If so, there are much better apps, that would allow you to conduct referencing searches by word, navigate by book, chapter, Verse, etc. My favorite is a an app entitled "Bible", developer name is Life.Church. If you want to look at this app for yourself, you should look for the words Life.Church, as using the word Bible will bring up many things and it would be confusing to determine the correct app otherwise. Hope this helps you.
Bookmark
Thank you to everyone for your common sense suggestions. As for the Bible, you recommended, I do have that, and I do use it and enjoy what it has to offer. This particular book, though, is something I have wanted for years maybe decades. It is the Thompson Chain Reference Bible. it finally came out in an e-book version a couple years ago and I just learned about it. I have found that I have better success when I downloaded the Kindle app for desktop PC and navigated that way. But I’m a very prolific braille, reader, and love to be able to read my material that way. I’ll still work with it. Again thanks everyone!