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Originally Posted by Renate
So how do you deal with this all?
Do you avoid reading notes until the end of the chapter because they're a pain?
Does the lack of a "back link" on the notes make things more cumbersome?
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For books with lots of pertinent footnotes, I normally read on my Kindle Touch, which handles footnotes better than later Kindles do. When I tap a footnote, it goes directly to the footnotes section instead of showing me a pop-up footnote. This has some advantages. First, the footnote is all there. It doesn't get cut off if it is longer than a paragraph. Second, I can look up words in the dictionary while reading a footnote in the footnotes section. Third, I can quickly see which footnotes I can safely skip, such as those that just cite a text, and I can find out which footnote I will want to read next. This saves me from tapping on every footnote as I come to it. One more advantage of using the Kindle Touch is that it still has the back button, which I find more convenient than how newer Kindles currently let you go back.