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[last_archangel]

I've come across a problem while working on a GO project - I used to read aloud to my parents when I lived at home. Now that I don't, I thought I'd continue by recording them and sending them home. But the problem with GO is the footnotes - they're integral to the plot and hilarious anyway, so I won't just ignore them (which is what someone

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[emerald_embers]

Instead of outright saying 'footnote', you might say 'as an aside', read the footnote, and then carry on as normal.

Don't know what'd work best for you though ;)

[musegaarid]

In the audio book version, the reader just says "Note".

[blueeyedtigress]

Personally, I think I'd do something similar to what I do when I read them:

Read the sentence up to the footnote mark, pause and say "note", read the footnote, pause, then go back and read the entire sentence without the footnote.

The flow of the sentence is necessary to the story, but the footnote is necessary to understanding, or at least humour. so do both. ;]

[daughtersofisis]

In Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards!, Hogfather, and Thief of Time (the only footnoted Pratchett works I've listened to on audiotape), the reader doesn't say anything about it but just continues reading as usual. For example, '"We are the Metatron." (The Voice of God. But not the voice of God. An entity in its own right. Rather like a presidential spokesman.) "Oh, yes. Of course. ..."

However, with longer footnotes and/or footnotes in the middle of sentences, this gets confusing. I think that saying 'note', reading it, and then rereading the sentence if you deem it necessary would be the most clear way to do it.

Hope that helps! :P

[quantum_witch]

I often read aloud at home myself. I usually say "There's a footnote here," and if the rest of the paragraph can wait, I read it immediately. If not, then I finish the paragraph, read the footnote, then go back to where I left off. There's no hard and fast rule, but that's what I do.