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Originally Posted by theducks
End Notes: Needs to load/replace and render the current file (then do it in reverse to return) the bigger the file, the longer.
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Um, I don't know about other devices, but on the iPad it loads/renders the whole, entire book all at once -- you can see it happening at the bottom of the screen -- and if/when I change the font size or orientation, you can see it do it all over again. So I can't understand why that would be an issue -- I'm not jumping to an entirely different "book", just to a different location within the same book that has already loaded completely.
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 who says the endnote file needs to be 1 monolithic file? KIS (Keep it smallish  )
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Well, that's easier said than done, if the book is
meant to have 500 or 1000 footnotes (or endnotes or whatever). I guess what I'm trying to avoid by putting all the notes in a separate file is having TONS of pages of notes in-between each chapter -- people might want to just actually read the book, and not all the notes. And yeah, I know that it's easy enough to just go to the ToC and jump over the notes to the next chapter -- but if ALL the notes can be put in a separate file (at the end of the book), then wouldn't that be nicer?
EDIT: Oops, I just read mrmikel's reply, and see how it actually addresses some of what I just wrote.
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It can work faster in lower power devices to put them as endnotes, at the end of each chapter and put links above it allowing you to skip over the endnotes.
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Just how "low power" are these "lower power devices"? I mean, in this case we're talking about a book that isn't full of illustrations or all kinds of fancy formatting that needs to be rendered over and over (with each "load"), but basically just a bunch of text files -- which, as I said, have already loaded/rendered when you open the book. All you're doing when you jump to/from a note is move to a different place in something that's already loaded/rendered.
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Some of the works I have done offer go to next chapter, go to previous chapter and go to Table of Contents.
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Oh, that's a good idea, if I did end up putting the notes at the end of each chapter -- seems so obvious, I should have thought of that, too!
I still think it would be nice(r) if all the notes were at the end of the book instead, though.
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You can download the Sony reader library which will display epubs as they will appear in smaller format readers, which might give you an idea of things.
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Oh, cool -- I'll go look for that! It's exasperating, though, having to download/install so many different programs just to test books in -- never mind having to test one's books in so many different programs. :/