[nabs-l] footnotes

[Karl Martin Adam]

Footnotes are incredibly important.  Often times they have 
substantive comments, and even when they don't, they show you 
what evidence a claim is based on, or in your case what statute 
or case supports a particular legal interpretation.  I'll put on 
my history major hat for a second and also point out that looking 
at footnotes and bibliographies is one of the best ways to do 
research and find out what the important works are on your topic 
if you start by reading the most recent thing you know of on your 
topic and then read the important things that were cited and then 
read the important things cited in those sources.  Justin gave 
you the commands for reading footnotes that are actually 
formatted as footnotes in word, but typically in a scann the 
notes are just part of the text either at the bottom of the page 
or at the end of the book or chapter.  I haven't had much trouble 
with the note numbers disappearing, but I read mostly bookshare 
books.  You might try talking to your DSS and impressing on them 
how important footnotes are if you have a systematic issue with 
the numbers not showing up.  Often changing scanner settings 
affects things like this.  If I'm reading something and the 
detail is only moderately important, I just read the notes at the
bottom of each page, and it's typically clear what they go to.  
If the notes are at the end of the book, I usually go read all 
the notes after each chapter or sometimes each subsection.  If 
some claim made in the text is important to my research, I will 
look up the note that goes with it using the search feature, and 
similarly if I'm doing a close reading I'll go look up each 
footnote by searching for that number and then searching 
backwords to find the original note number and continue reading.

HTH,
Karl
 ----- Original Message -----
From: Jameyanne Fuller via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 19:47:45 -0400
Subject: [nabs-l] footnotes

Hi all,

I've always hated footnotes. They're such a pain to find and 
read, on my
computer or on my BrailleNote, especially since a lot of the time 
when
something has been scanned or converted by the disabilities 
services office,
the numbers for the footnotes are lost and I don't know what goes 
with what,
so most of the time I just skim them or ignore them completely. 
But I'm
guessing there might be some useful information in them, and I'm 
pretty sure
they're important for law school. So is there some secret way to 
read
footnotes that I'm missing?

Thanks for your help!



Jameyanne

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