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Originally Posted by Karellen
I tend to add my footnotes in the flow of the text, usually directly after the paragraph that requires the footnote. I know, I'll probably be laughed off the forum for doing it this way, but it works for me, and I don't need to be jumping around my novel trying to read references. Plus, general fiction novels that require footnotes are an exception, rather than normal, and there aren't many of them.
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If there is anything I can't stand, it is getting to the end of a chapter's actual content and finding page after page of footnotes clogging it up before the next chapter. I much prefer them as endnotes in a separate file at the end of the book. Either non-fiction, or the rare fiction with lots of notes.
But for the odd short footnote in fiction, I really like your approach! I've recently done a few almost like this, but without even coding the <a and <href -- I just stuffed it in after the paragraph. There were, I think, two short footnotes in the whole book.
On paper, you would just glance down at the bottom of the page. So sticking it below the paragraph in an epub worked pretty much the same. Next one I run into, I'll try coding it it your way. No laughter at all.