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The main problem with foot notes in electronic form vs print is the lack of pages. In print you can glance slightly down for the foot note and the back up with
by Avshalom 10y ago
The main problem with foot notes in electronic form vs print is the lack of pages.
In print you can glance slightly down for the foot note and the back up with out too much effort. In electronic form "without pages" it can be a significant effort to find your place again. < a >'s being remarkably unreliable.
Grantland often used marginalia which usually worked well but tragically is non trivial.
- ghaff 10y agoFully agree. By way of comparison, endnotes in printed material are pretty much required citations, etc. But footnotes could often be "Hey, if you want a bit of additional context without interrupting the flow" with a quick glance. But there tends to be a commitment in electronic form to following a hyperlink even if everything works as it's supposed to. I don't have a good solution. It's one of the reasons that fiction works better than non-fiction in non-paginated electronic formats.
- ComputerGuru 10y agoFully agreed, though Wikipedia and Kindle solve this with hover/click to view footnote in a tooltip/bubble - though obviously not as effortless as letting your eyes slide to the bottom of the page, it's honestly not bad.