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Originally Posted by BetterRed
 - surely Non-fiction aside - annotations placed in line are a distraction and very like to provoke - "yeah I know that already" - too many of them and a reviewer going to mark it down.
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Any more so than annotations placed not inline? The story-teller's job is to build his world from the narrative. If any necessary information is not inherent - maybe events in a previous book of a series - there can be a foreword.
But I repeat, this is my stylistic preference, not a rule.