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[log in to unmask] wrote: >...Alain Erlande-Brandenburg's The Cathedral, a book that would be much, much more useful if it had footnotes! AHHRRR-MEN!!!! Cambridge (or was it Oxenfordbridge?) U.P. deserves some sort of special award for Vandalism with the publication of that book, completing the decades-old (now) process of emasculating scholarly works by, first, demanding "end notes," either at the end of chapters or --horribilly dictu-- at the end of the whole text of a book; and, then, simply eliminating them entirely, substituting in their place some kind of "guide for further reading" b.s. (and a "shorter" bibliography). the idea among the Bean Counters in the Front Office, apparently, is that the simple appearance of a book with footnotes will scare off all the hoi and the poloi who would otherwise surely buy the thing from their local Barnes & Noble's front shelf and turn it into an instant Bestseller (not to mention lead to a 7 figure contract for the movie rights). duh. c ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1