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Originally Posted by Quoth
You can't or shouldn't exactly duplicate how a paper book works as an ebook. It does links back and forth well. But you absolutely can't mimic the paper style of a source for a footnote. People need a larger area to tap on.
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Quoth - just some corroboration of what I'm talking about. If you go to the Amazon listing of Tom Holland's
Dominion, you can look at the free preview of the Kindle version.
It's literally the first book I checked that includes the second chapter in the preview - chosen basically at random. The relevant couple of lines with the first note cue in Chapter 2 appear below. As you'll see, the note is numbered 1 - i.e. not numbered continuously with Chapter 1 - and only the note cue itself is formatted as a link, not any of the text that precedes it.
This remains absolutely the standard throughout professional nonfiction publishing - at least for now!