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Originally Posted by phossler
Related question about footnote placement / formatting.
Is the 'dead tree' approach of putting footnotes at the bottom of the page or putting endnotes at the end of the chapter the best way for an ebook?
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At the bottom of what page? If someone increases the font size, it could be 2-3 pages away. If they are long, they completely break the text flow and you can't just skip right over it like you do with a physical book.
For reasons that have already been stated, I tend to go for endnotes for speed (having a slow reader) and keeping the footnotes numbers out of the hundreds. For a book which in which footnotes are not citations, but actual information, I like them inline, so long as they are relatively short. I put them in .9 em and italic so they can be skipped over if the reader likes. I put them right at the end of the associated paragraph so what they apply to can be readily seen.