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Originally Posted by Jellby
Footnotes can be a real problem even in paper books. Not the occasional two-line footnote, of course, but the scholarly/critical editions, with sometimes tens of footnotes per page, some of them several pages long (even with reduced font size), and with footnotes inside footnotes inside footnotes... Pop-up notes would be perfect in this case, though.
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Very simple, it's problem on paper, but not problem on screen, easy for programming.
Just set a limitation of lines of footnotes, such as 5, (or percentage of screen height). If footnote exceeds 5 lines, then at the end of footnotes add ...(more) and a small button or link, for user to pop up a window to read whole footnote.
Still, the problem is, they just don't do it. ( I mean the software developer for ereaders, such as Adobe)