I’ve never encountered this issue with figures and drawings. Maybe I have not read enough figure-packed textbooks, but I don’t remember ever losing the reference to a figure. I do remember losing the reference to an equation when reading linear programming models or the like, but we are talking about ~30 equations stacked one above the other. But since I mostly read these from academic papers in pdf which already include suitable hyperlinks, I would say that the overall issue is almost nonexistent.
I’ve never encountered this issue with figures and drawings. Maybe I have not read enough figure-packed textbooks, but I don’t remember ever losing the reference to a figure. I do remember losing the reference to an equation when reading linear programming models or the like, but we are talking about ~30 equations stacked one above the other. But since I mostly read these from academic papers in pdf which already include suitable hyperlinks, I would say that the overall issue is almost nonexistent.
That’s good feedback, thanks!