> Instead they use some sort of stone-age technology called "footnotes", stuffing all supplementary material right into the book as a couple lines of tiny text.

> Instead they use some sort of stone-age technology called "footnotes", stuffing all supplementary material right into the book as a couple lines of tiny text. A bit OT. I got tired of clicking on the footnote links, and click to come back to text, and wrote a little Greasemonkey script that shows the footnotes on mouse hover. Makes reading the text a bit easier. It's available at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/109690 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/109690 in case anyone's interested.