How are you dealing with the footnotes? Personally I always say I'm going to read the book through without reference to them and then again checking them but curiosity always gets the better of me and I find I read the footnotes as I come to them - sometimes even before I come to them - in the text.
I'd be interested to know how others deal with them.
I'm going directly to the endnotes, and finding them very interesting. (Though I admit to not reading all of the first one, which is very long.) They wouldn't be of much use if read separately.
I haven't started the book yet, but my usual approach is to read them through before the main part of the book. I'll then glance at the footnote to refresh my memory if necessary when I come to it in the book, but not read all the way through it, thus avoiding getting too distracted from the narrative.
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