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Originally Posted by Jellby
Until showing notes as popups (and removing them from the normal flow) becomes a widespread feature (read: is supported by my reader of choice), I'll prefer endnotes. Notes at the end of each chapter are also annoying if one wants to page back from the start of one chapter to end of the previous one. If there are many notes, split them by chapter, but put them all at the end of the book.
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As a reader I like to have them at the end of the book in one or more separate xhtml files so that I can easily copy them into a separate book and read text and notes side-by-side on two readers (tablet and phone).
I often photocopy the footnotes from paper books, with ebooks I've even printed them. If a book has a lot of maps at the front, I sometimes break them out and put them in a CBZ.
IMO - the assumption that reader only wants to see one footnote in isolation of all other footnotes is misguided. If a paragraph in the body of the work has several footnotes, I like to be able to see all of them - at least.
One day the ebook industry might unshackle itself from the bound paper page linear paradigm. But probably not in my lifetime, if how long it took to get from Bacon's flapping wings (late 13th c) to Langley's machines (late 19th c) is any guide
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