I don’t read your footnotes
The other day, someone said something like the following to me.
I read your ’blog, but I don’t read the footnotes.
I have three responses to that statement.
I find that choice strange, since the endnote section, or the interaction between the primary text and the endnotes, is probably the best part of my writing.
You do know that I provide easy-to-follow links, don’t you [4,5]?
Of course, it is up to my readers how you read. But please use the correct name for the endnotes [6].
[1] If you print the site, they appear at the end of each musing, not at the bottom of each page [2]. That makes them endnotes not footnotes.
[2] They appear on the last page of a multipage musing. The appear in the middle of a page when I write short musings like this one and print multiple short musings on one page.
[3] Counter-argument: It’s a Web page. They appear in the footer of the Web page. They are therefore footnotes.
[4] Yes, I know that some readers read the whole text and then the footnotes. I still don’t quite understand how that works.
[5] I even spent some of my precious coding time making those links auto-generate.
[6] You may also call them end notes
if you prefer.
Drafted 2017-07-22. Released 2017-07-23.
Version 1.1 of 2017-07-22.