I’m reading it for the second time in a row, the first time I just read it without notes. My second and slower read I’m reading the notes for a canto or two and then reading the cantos.

I could go either way with reading them or not. I find having read Homer and Virgil and knowing a good amount of history to be of more informational value than the notes anyways. I don’t mind breaking immersion with the text possibly because I don’t find it all that immersive. I do enjoy it though.

Note: Mine has endnotes, without notations in the text of what has an endnotes. The endnotes refer back to the line. So no chance I would read them as I go lol.