I greatly enjoyed Shy. I agree; you need to read the notes as they occur.
As for notes in general, it depends. First, sometimes you want to ignore them as they break up the flow and aren't especially interesting -- or interesting at all. If I do want them, I do the poke the superscript and then return to the prior page either by poking it again or poking in the middle of the page to return. After that, I can do the same "return to page" if I want and it'll do pretty much the same thing (obviously, some of the time I need to go to the next page).
When it comes to maps and family trees, if they're vital and I'm going to refer to them frequently, I usually cue the book up on a tablet or my laptop and they're too hard to view on my eink devices. If I need to look once, that's what my trusty magnifying glass is for.
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