1. Give footnotes the boot Blog post 4 Jul 2025
   Give footnotes the boot [Jake Archibald writes](https://jakearchibald.com/2025/give-footnotes-the-boot/): > You, the reader, encounter a tiny number within some prose. This indicates to you that I, the writer, have something more to say on this ... body of your content or [don't say it at all](/search/?query=footnotes
2. Stop treating eBooks like paper books Blog post 15 Apr 2023
   sized PDF. It's usually to mimic some governmental form, surprise surprise. I've also grumbled about footnotes in books before - the content is either important enough to appear in the body of the text ... think I've ever encountered a book on my Kindle that shows footnotes in a little pop-up dialogue though. I'd perhaps complain about them less if it wasn't such a chore
3. Babel Reading log entry 15 May 2025
   though which I always enjoy, so it gets a star for that at least. Also it has footnotes? A fictional story with fictional footnotes
4. Undoctored Reading log entry 26 Dec 2022
   they've all been consistent in making me laugh and think. This one had copious amounts of footnotes though 😠 I've said it before - it's either important enough to appear in the main body