Footnote inconsistency
I started reading Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (kepub, sideloaded) which contains plenty of footnotes of all shapes and sizes. There is rhyme, written in short lines and stanzas. Most are prose, ranging in size from one liners to several pages long, broken up into paragraphs.
The experience of reading them is a bit odd. Most cause a footnote pop-up to appear. A few, however, send the reader to the footnote "chapter" of the book, where in order to return to the book location I need to use the breadcrumb thing at the bottom of the screen.
All the footnote pop-ups seem to ignore the paragraph marks and all css styling and show up as a left justified wall of text, yes even the poems, which is pretty terrible.
Also, when the content of the pop-up footnote is long, which is pretty common, there's a scroll bar you can use all sorts of gestures to move to the next/previous pate of the footnote, but if I use the physical buttons on my Libra H2O it flips the pages of the book underneath(!) the footnote page, which is very strange.
None of this seems to be the book's fault, as far as I could see, using Calibre's built-in editor.
Seems to me like a glaring omission on Kobo's part. Or am I missing something?
The reader is a bit out of reach at the moment and I'm pretty lazy but I promise I'll post some screenshots of all of this.
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