How Should a Book Sound? And What About Footnotes? Footnotes present “kind of a nasty problem for an audiobook: where do the footnotes go? There is no bottom of the page in an audiobook, obviously.”
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I didn't notice the date on this article until I got to this sentence that refers to DFW in the present tense:
"So single-minded is Mr. Wallace, who is 43, about how his work looks over how it sounds..."
Oof. It still hurts after all these years that he's no longer here :(
the Discworld series audiobooks do a good job with footnotes. A chime, and then a different narrator, Bill Nighy, reads the footnote and then a chime and you're back into the meat of the book.
This is Alt Text, that thing that feels like a chore when posting multimedia but is a gesture of accessibility and thoughtfulness that we sighted people should not think of as a chore. Thanks for reminding us that people have been thinking about this for awhile.
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