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Really only academic papers need them, as citations to the hundreds of endnotes.
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Wow, that's quite a claim. How are they bad in ebooks? When properly formatted, they are fine, and work well. Tap the little number, the footnote opens, you read it, or make a note of it, tap the X, and continue reading.
When reading non-fiction, like the book I named in my earlier post, footnotes can add a lot of information for the reader who is trying to learn something.
I've no experience with "academic papers" as I only went to school thru High School, but I do enjoy well written, well researched non-fiction on a number of subjects. I can't imagine getting as much out of some of the books I've read if they lacked footnotes. Sometimes they simply offer clarity, sometimes they offer a new source of info to pursue, etc.