Yeah, endnotes in books are quite annoying. I think I prefer footnotes, although sometimes there are footnotes that are so long that they take up half the page, and then I think “well if it requires that much explanation, why not just make it a part of the regular text?” But then it might distract the reader from the point… but then again, having a huge block of small text that takes up half a page is distracting anyway. Then I guess it’d be better to have it as an endnote… hmm. And it’s not good to mix endnotes, footnotes, and parentheticals for things like that, but I think that’s only for citations, and not explanations. I guess that means it’s good to have endnotes if your explanation is going to be really really long. I don’t know where I’m going with this.
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Yeah, endnotes in books are quite annoying. I think I prefer footnotes, although sometimes there are footnotes that are so long that they take up half the page, and then I think “well if it requires that much explanation, why not just make it a part of the regular text?” But then it might distract the reader from the point… but then again, having a huge block of small text that takes up half a page is distracting anyway. Then I guess it’d be better to have it as an endnote… hmm. And it’s not good to mix endnotes, footnotes, and parentheticals for things like that, but I think that’s only for citations, and not explanations. I guess that means it’s good to have endnotes if your explanation is going to be really really long. I don’t know where I’m going with this.
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