I have often seen books with dual footnotes: informational ones at the bottom of the page, source ones in a list at the end of the the text of the book Labeled "Footnotes" and consisting exclusively of sources. Oddly, there is usually another "List of Sources" or "Bibliography" sometimes designated "of Sources" if followed by a "Bibliography for Further Readings".
I don't think it would be proper to change whatever designations there are but after the first source footnote number it might be acceptable to put a "reader's note" at the bottom of the page stating that all the footnotes are source notes and are found at the end of the [or wherever and under what title if any]. That would not be infringing upon any rights limited to the author or publisher but could be an aide to the blind reader and should not, therefore, be objected to by said author or publisher. Since the question of "rights" is involved you might ask Jim or John about the legal position in terms of copyright agreements with publishers. Other than that I can see no objection. I have often found such notations in RFB&D books. [A copy of the Kipling was donated to me after having been recorded by them and I found typed notes taped in it that had been included orally in the recordings but which I excluded as irrelevvant for the Bookshare copy.]
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To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 3:04 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Question re "reading" footnote numbers and quotation marks
I'm reading a print book, a copy of which is in the bookshare collection. I read another book by the same author which was quite readable. This one has unnumerable footnote numbers (the footnotes themselves are all iat the end of the book) and quotation marks--phrase quotes from sources in sentences and he notes within and at the end of the sentences. At a sighted person I can mentally bypass them, though not as well as I'd like, but I'm wondering if they would be really annoying to someone reading in Braille or Daisy. I'm asking because I'm wondering if I should write a brief review mentioning this so readers can be forewarned. Cindy ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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