When it comes to interleaving long paragraphs, it's not even about skill for me. Even if I were trying to cross-reference two things in English, I still wouldn't want to page back and forth, if I just could have two files side by side and just click on one and the other.
Like when I read Lavisse's Youth of Fritz, he has all his notes at the end. I don't page forward when I'm reading the text to read the end note, then page back to where I was. I'll open the file twice and keep them open side by side, one open to the text and one open to the notes, so I can keep my place in both. But if you don't mind endless paging back and forth, you have more patience than I do!
The thing is, I can't read on my computer -- I have to read on my e-reader anyway. (A combo of limited computer time due to body limitations and limited time sitting down because of kids -- am usually reading while running around the house.) So I'm used to paging back and forth anyway, though to be honest it's usually only a page or two, so yeah, these really long paragraphs are probably going to be annoying.
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Re: German reading group
Date: 2020-09-08 04:12 am (UTC)Re: German reading group
Date: 2020-09-08 09:08 pm (UTC)Like when I read Lavisse's Youth of Fritz, he has all his notes at the end. I don't page forward when I'm reading the text to read the end note, then page back to where I was. I'll open the file twice and keep them open side by side, one open to the text and one open to the notes, so I can keep my place in both. But if you don't mind endless paging back and forth, you have more patience than I do!
Re: German reading group
Date: 2020-09-12 04:50 am (UTC)Re: German reading group
Date: 2020-09-12 12:35 pm (UTC)