Neven MrganI’m reading a book in which nearly every paragraph has a footnote; worse, an end note. Half of them are just quote or data sources, but the other half are genuinely interesting elaborations. This is mildly infuriating, especially since the book is very long, and also very good.
Ash Ponders 📸@neven double bookmarking it?
@ash It’s doable, but it’s still a disorienting experience. Some of the notes are page-long anecdotes that are legit fun; but when I get back to the main text, I forget what was going on.
Michael Lubert@neven Is it Philip K Dick's Exegesis (Abridged Version)? I tried to listen to it on audiobook but every 2 minutes of rambling is followed by 5 minutes of footnotes explaining what he meant by that or historical context.
@mlubert omg is it an annotated audiobook. Is that a thing.
@neven Oh yeah. It's 52 hours long. https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Exegesis-of-Philip-K-Dick-Audiobook/B006GUV0A2
Bluefacedbeast@neven Alan Moore’s annotated “From Hell” was filled with hundreds of fascinating footnotes.
Erik Vorhes@neven This seems like a missed opportunity for marginalia — or maybe even better, an editor who can help wrangle the elaborations into the main text.
tofias@neven history?
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