1. Give footnotes the boot Blog post
   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
   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
   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
   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