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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Here's one such, sort of… the print edition of Charlotte Gordon's "Romantic Outlaws" published by Random House has 50+ pages of bibliographic notes that are referenced by page number and a snippet of text, e.g.
3 William Godwin did not think… Emily W. Sunstein, Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality (Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2989), 26
There are no cues in the text! I doubt the ebook edition is any different.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Romantic-O.../dp/B00RKX0R5S
Aside - when they hide the relevant text 'popup' notes can be very irritating, even more so if there are multiple notes for the same paragraph that need to be read together. I often extract the notes to a separate file and put it on another device.
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Yes, that's interesting. That's a style that's used quite often - I think it's considered a bit less offputting by publishers who don't like too much clutter on the (printed) page, and think that lots of people are put off by footnote/endnote cues as forbiddingly "academic."
One ebook I have using that format has one-way links -
from the notes section, but no link from the text to the note, which seems to corroborate your hunch. Doesn't seem very satisfactory to me.