i’m a bad reader
It has come to my attention in the past few years as a graduate student that I am a bad reader. In particular, I skip footnotes and endnotes. It’s like those little superscripts are invisible to me. I don’t know when that habit started, but I’m trying to correct it. Unfortunately that usually means that I get to the bottom of the page, realize that there is a footnote, then waste 5 minutes scanning the page to find where it came from. This is, of course, difficult for me, since those little superscripts are invisible to me. When there are endnotes, I just miss them entirely. But I chastise myself for that less, because anyone who uses endnotes is not thinking about the experience of the reader.