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Originally Posted by GeoffC
with the speed ereaders link to notes, does it really matter that, what in paper versions were footnotes (page-related), are re-designated end-notes ?
would it not be fair to say that footnotes are increasingly an 'old-fashioned' concept....
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I think we're all agreed that footnotes at the bottom of the page and not possible in ebooks because 'pages' are of different sizes depending on screen and font size.
That leaves endnotes at the end of chapters, or endnotes together at the end of the ebook. For what it is worth my practice is to put the endnotes at the end of chapters if there are only one or two of them for the chapter, or put them at the end of the ebook if there are many of them for each chapter.
The problem with putting a lot of footnotes at the end of the chapter is that one has to page through material one has already read when one comes through the end of the chapter. And I always put a link back to the place in the text where the footnote occurs. It may not be necessary, but just seems neater, more symmetrical.
Regards, Alex