It's a great idea (I'm a serial abuser of parentheses [I pretty much use them in preference to rearranging a sentence so it can use commas or semicolons; not ideal, but it's how I think], it's really bad sometimes), which given a little work could be incredibly neat and useful
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love footnotes in books; still getting used to the idea of them on webpages.