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Alright /lit/ the line is drawn in the sand. Chose wisely. Footnotes or endnotes?

>> No.5168109

>>5168104
Must the notes be read contemporaneously with the text to understand what is going on (examples: text in a foreign language the reader cannot reasonably be expected to know, or an archaic idiom)? If so then use footnotes.

Generally otherwise you should use endnotes.

>> No.5168111

>>5168104
Footnotes, of course. It gets annoying flipping to the back of a book. But the book I'm reading for business has endnotes, I keep another book marker in the back.

>> No.5168133

>>5168104
Footnotes for books, endnotes for papers and essays.

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>>5168104
>not offering the option of notes scattered across the page in boxes, with arrows to lead the way, as in the David Foster Wallace essay 'Host'
>mfw
But seriously each option has its merits.