“I have some controversial thoughts about this as a librarian and lover of weird shit:
What the fuck, why, when I read this on Kindle, are all the notes at the very end of the book? I’m never going to run through all that shit after reading the entire book, and stacking them all at the end is such a waste of everyone’s time. Why wouldn’t you put them at the end of each chapter? Also, I kept reading and thinking, “How can there be 3 more hours of reading in this thing!?” Also, can’t writers just integrate the footnotes into the text? Is the info worth including or not? “I sorta want this in here, sort of not, so let’s put it in really small print at the bottom of the page.” Make an editorial decision! Put it in or cut it. Or, I don’t know, make a “writer’s cut” of the book and a “theatrical cut,” and then we’ll see how many people go for the overly long version and know definitively which way to go.
Does a footnote indicate the information is optional? Isn’t this entire book optional? It’s a pop science book meant for mass audiences, not a goddamn textbook. What even the hell is this?
Frankly, I would prefer this had been bound in human skin to reading it on Kindle. At least THAT book would have footnotes in the correct place, the bottom of the page, where I’m accustomed to ignoring them.
That said, BIG shoutout to books I had to read in school that had endless pages of references and shit at the end. Wasn’t that great? You think you’ve got a couple more hours, boom, you’re done. It’s a gift.
Had anyone made a Kindle cover in human skin? That’d kind of be the 21st century anthropodermic book, right?
Does covering a Kindle in human skin violate the TOS? I feel like it must, but on the other hand, maybe nobody thought about the need.
That tears it, I’m making a latex, Evil Dead 2 Necronomicon-esque cover for my Kindle. It’s only right.”