: Re: Suggestions for ways to say "I'll come back to this later ..." I'm looking for several suggestions for techniques to handle 2 similar cases ... While writing my current non-fiction book, there

@Eichhorn147

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Please absolutely do reference later pages, chapters or sections, because if I am interested in a particular topic that you are talking about, I might want to turn directly to it for more info. Whenever I am reading a how-to, a reference manual or, even an RPG, I find these markers within text extremely helpful to me as a reader. I would even recommend getting specific about what's covered, in very short form (maybe not on the first draft).

Something like what's below.

You will also want to make sure that you have the right tires on your
bike and that they have just the right amount of air. More detailed
information on tires will be covered in section 12.1.

Some of this depends on the tone of your writing. If it's less like a book that you think people will use for reference and more of a conversational book, the format of:

We'll be exploring this later in the book. OR We'll be getting more
detailed about this topic, but the quick and dirty version is: the
more unstable the ground, the wider your tires should be.

Every reader has a preference on this, and it will also have to fit in with what you are doing and how.

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