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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
As a general comment about the difficulties I've had trying to read the Fussell book (annotations bug causing book to stop dead and then return to home page 'finished', and unable to press notes), how does the ordinary reader who isn't a member of MR and who has no knowledge of html or CSS go about enjoying the book?
If I didn't have access to all your brains and skills I would've been screaming out of frustration that I'd bought a Kobo (epub) book and couldn't finish reading it because it locked me out.
I think the way forward for Kobo re accessing the notes is to use standard text font and enclose the numbers in []. That way they're very accessible.
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Most of that is the design of the book. Whoever created it did it without the underlines or extra character to make the link bigger or more obvious. That is fine in a paper book, but, not so good in an ebook. The Kobo problem is that they don't make the link easier to press in epubs. They do in kepubs.
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But the annotations bug has been going for some time, and only now does it look like one of the MR members (davidfor) will identify the solution. Not Kobo, but davidfor. (onya david  )
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Has anyone reported the bug to Kobo? I know I haven't. When I saw it and worked out what was happening, it was because I was cheating. I did something the device didn't support. Then I fixed it for my book, finished the book and forgot about it. Hence, I didn't report it. With what is happening with your book, I can reproduce it in a way that is just using the device. That is a bug I can report. Hopefully, I'll have time over the weekend to write it up properly.
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The ordinary punter must have quite a frustrating time reading non-fiction ebooks .... 
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Yes, it would be frustrating, and it would probably lead to a factory reset.