WE HAVE A SOLUTION TO THIS, THEY ARE CALLED FOOTNOTES.

"COME OUT COME OUT AND FLIP TO THE BACK OF THE FUCKING BOOK AND SEARCH FOR THE TINY NUMBER. OH YOU HAVE A PDF? THEN FUCK YOU AND YOUR FUCKING LIFE" - DERANGED SICKO PUBLISHERS

Under communism, endnotes will be banned and punishable by law.

  • ReadFanon [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    I'm just teasing :P

    For what it's worth, I have ADHD so, by the time I've flipped to the back of the book to find the endnote I need, invariably one of two outcomes occurs:

    • I forget which number I'm looking for and I end up reading the wrong footnote endnote and I spend a few minutes perplexed as I try to puzzle out the relevance to the main text before returning to the main text to realise that I've just read the wrong footnote endnote
    • I remember the number but what I've just read slips from my mind as I focus with all my effort on remembering the correct number, only to read the footnote and fail to connect that information with the main text and then I have to go back a page or two in order to remember the thread of the main text before encountering that same footnote endnote again

    Wash, rinse, and repeat for the most infuriating experience as a reader.

    Fuck footnotes endnotes

    • Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I have the same experience. It's awful and slows me down so much, and I have to have two windows open with the same PDF if I don't have the book. I can't not know what the fucking note says. It's the worst in books where they decide that each chapter needs to restart the sequence. Then you have to find the chapter, and then search for the number. And at that point, I've forgotten the number or what the sentence with the note even said.

      Those are endnotes though, footnotes are at the bottom of the page which is easy to find, read, and then go back to reading.

      • ReadFanon [any, any]
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        1 year ago

        Lmao, did I mention that I have ADHD? I even got them the right way around in the first instance before I got distracted smh.