Yes, leave the endnotes at the end and the footnotes at the bottom of
the page. But I don't have to like it, do I? Back when I was reading
print I really preferred footnotes. With a footnote all I had to do was
to glance down the page and when I was through reading it I easily and
quickly returned to where I left off. If I was going to read an endnote
I had to go on a hunting trip. Then I had a different opinion when I
started writing papers that had to be footnoted. That was back in the
days of typewriters and actual paper to be composed on. Leaving just
enough space and inserting those footnotes was a job that could only be
accomplished in agony. I ever so much preferred endnotes if I was the
writer. Nowadays, though, I don't like either. Anymore I use electronic
devices to do my reading and if it is a Daisy player I can usually
navigate to either a foot note or an endnote, but it is, again, a
hunting trip and a lot of trouble. It is trouble finding the note and it
is trouble to find my place again after I read it. Given the way I read
now and given the way I would write now if I was writing footnoted
material anymore, I would really prefer the note to appear right after
the place that the note refers to. It could be placed in parentheses or
brackets or there could be a comment added such as "beginning of note"
or "end of note." That would make it so much easier. When I was sending
books to RFBD to be recorded I specifically requested that if there were
footnotes or endnotes that they be read in the place that they were
cited in the text. They actually honored my request about half the time
too. Oh well, I can't expect that everything will be done the easy way.
On 1/23/2017 7:19 AM, Ann Parsons wrote:
Hi all,
Just a matter of a technicality. What you're talking about are endnotes, not footnotes. Hate to be picky, but it helps when discussing this kind of thing. Footnotes are at the foot or bottom of pages. Endnotes are at the end of a chapter or book, all together. Nope, don't move endnotes, they're endnotes and supposed to be at the end. <smiling with twinkle>
Ann P.
