#endnotes — Public Fediverse posts
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My monthly End Notes™️ for July 2026 combine plant photos, announcements of portfolio updates and other news, notes and links.
https://www.alex-kunz.com/july-2026-end-notes/
#BlogPost #PhotoBlog #Photography #EndNotes #NaturePhotography
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My monthly End Notes™️ for July 2026 combine plant photos, announcements of portfolio updates and other news, notes and links.
https://www.alex-kunz.com/july-2026-end-notes/
#BlogPost #PhotoBlog #Photography #EndNotes #NaturePhotography
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Anyway, enough rage posting about #endnotes. The image shows Diogenes, by the way. #Skystorians will find the image over here: portraits.hab.de/werk/4776
Portrait II 1220 - Porträ... -
Anyway, enough rage posting about #endnotes. The image shows Diogenes, by the way. #Skystorians will find the image over here: portraits.hab.de/werk/4776
Portrait II 1220 - Porträ... -
Hard to believe that half of 2026 is over now… and for the end of the month as usual, I have my look back at and summary of things and happenings, stuff from behind the scenes, a few links, and a small amount of new photos as well. Here is the End Notes June 2026 edition:
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Hard to believe that half of 2026 is over now… and for the end of the month as usual, I have my look back at and summary of things and happenings, stuff from behind the scenes, a few links, and a small amount of new photos as well. Here is the End Notes June 2026 edition:
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My recent post about Luca Pacoli cited Noam Andrews's fascinating book ‘The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century’ [https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262046640/the-polyhedrists/].
It seems that in 2023 it won a bronze medal from the Stiftung Buchkunst in the category ‘Best Book Design from all over the World’ [https://www.stiftung-buchkunst.de/best-book-design-from-all-over-the-world/die-praemierten/detail/the-polyhedrists/?view=grid&year=2023].
I can only assume that the judges did not evaluate the design by actually reading the book.
The prize citation says: ‘Type area, typeface and the pictures' warm mood radiate a sense of calm. […] browsing through it is pure joy.’
Reading rather than browsing is a *different* experience. The book has no running heads, either in the main text or in the 20 pages of endnotes.
So, even leaving aside my dislike of endnotes (especially when they mix discursion and citation), if one wants to consult an endnote, without running heads one is *lost*. One has to flip back through the pages of the text to find the chapter title, then flip through the endnotes to find the corresponding heading, and only then can one find the correct note.
(To be clear: none of my complaints here are about Andrews's scholarship or writing, only the book design.)
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My recent post about Luca Pacoli cited Noam Andrews's fascinating book ‘The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century’ [https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262046640/the-polyhedrists/].
It seems that in 2023 it won a bronze medal from the Stiftung Buchkunst in the category ‘Best Book Design from all over the World’ [https://www.stiftung-buchkunst.de/best-book-design-from-all-over-the-world/die-praemierten/detail/the-polyhedrists/?view=grid&year=2023].
I can only assume that the judges did not evaluate the design by actually reading the book.
The prize citation says: ‘Type area, typeface and the pictures' warm mood radiate a sense of calm. […] browsing through it is pure joy.’
Reading rather than browsing is a *different* experience. The book has no running heads, either in the main text or in the 20 pages of endnotes.
So, even leaving aside my dislike of endnotes (especially when they mix discursion and citation), if one wants to consult an endnote, without running heads one is *lost*. One has to flip back through the pages of the text to find the chapter title, then flip through the endnotes to find the corresponding heading, and only then can one find the correct note.
(To be clear: none of my complaints here are about Andrews's scholarship or writing, only the book design.)
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@marlowe @DrALJONES There was a time, when #typesetting was first done on computers, when #footnotes were difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. So publishers preferred #endnotes because they were cheaper. This ceased to be true about 2002, when InDesign 2.0 (and soon after Quark XPress) became able to handle footnotes as easily as Word had been doing all along. So now there’s no excuse for endnotes except “We've always done it that way.” Always!
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@marlowe @DrALJONES There was a time, when #typesetting was first done on computers, when #footnotes were difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. So publishers preferred #endnotes because they were cheaper. This ceased to be true about 2002, when InDesign 2.0 (and soon after Quark XPress) became able to handle footnotes as easily as Word had been doing all along. So now there’s no excuse for endnotes except “We've always done it that way.” Always!
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I just started reading #NickBostrom's #superintelligence. The #endnotes look promising.
