Footnotes are great! There's something wonderful about the affordance of a digressive paragraph at the foot of the page. I do not need to break the flow of re

Footnotes are great! There's something wonderful about the affordance of a digressive paragraph at the foot of the page. I do not need to break the flow of reading, just flick my eyes down, read and return to the body text. What are terrible are endnotes, which force one to page or click back and forth. That action breaks flow. I wonder if the issue is with how footnotes are displayed electronically? Perhaps a Sufficiently Smart E-Reader could display a footnote as long as its footnote marker, sentence, line or paragraph (would need research to see which is best, I think) is on-screen.