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Power Moby-Dick

Monday, July 21st by Carla

Power Moby-Dick

Meg Guroff has launched Power Moby-Dick, a site with vocabulary support and notes for first-time readers of the novel.

She writes:

I was reading the book online because it was easier to look things up that way, and after a few chapters I realized that I was effectively annotating it myself, so I started saving my notes. It was a *ton* of work–about 4 months, start to finish–but I was so engrossed that I didn’t notice what a ridiculously big project it was until I got to the end of the book. By that time, the annotation was almost done.

Notes appear to the left with definitions and, for more information, a link. They are color-coded to highlighted words in Melville’s text.

This is an amazing contribution. On behalf of readers everywhere, Meg, thanks!

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