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Old 07-10-2023, 10:58 AM   #1515
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It annoys me in paper books but more so in epub, footnotes that are pages for each chapter. I read a book recently that the footnotes were longer than the chapter itself. Breaks up the flow, often doesn't add much.
The first volume of Marc Lewisohn's biography of the Beatles, around 20% of the text (which was some 2,500 pages when I ran it through the Calibre Count Pages plugin) is just footnotes. Half of them were various ibids, the other half various details.

Oh, and it's the first of a trilogy. Well, a planned trilogy.
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