{"id":6894,"date":"2011-10-14T06:51:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T06:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2011-10-14T06:51:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T06:51:07","slug":"footnotes-for-the-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2011\/10\/14\/footnotes-for-the-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Footnotes for the Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Mason <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/books\/7310148\/mark-mason-inpraiseof-the-footnote.thtml\">muses in <em>The Spectator<\/em><\/a> on the fate of the footnote in the Kindle.  I recently hand-coded my Kindle ebook <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B005NIYNZC\">H.P. Lovecraft As Psychogeographer, New York City 1924-26<\/a><\/em> which had thousands of footnotes, using special round-trip links.  But Mark rightly points out that readers need some kind of visual flag to indicate when a footnote link contains substantial additional commentary by the author&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Can&#8217;t risk missing those, can you? So you have to look up each and every note, just in case. Or, as I\u2019ve started doing, scanning the notes each time I start a new chapter and trying to remember which ones are proper and which I can ignore. All very cumbersome.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So should Kindle coders need to abide by a convention whereby links to &#8216;substantial&#8217; footnotes are at least placed in <strong>bold<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/09\/books\/review\/will-the-e-book-kill-the-footnote.html\">frets about the fate of the footnote<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Mason muses in The Spectator on the fate of the footnote in the Kindle. I recently hand-coded my Kindle &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2011\/10\/14\/footnotes-for-the-kindle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}