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"Margaret Guroff's handsome online edition of Moby-Dick offers pithy explanations of terms and references you might stumble over, and lays them in the margin alongside the text. No doubt scholars will quibble over the annotations, but at first blush, to this lay reader, they seem both more navigable and less obtrusive than print edition footnotes.
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Maud Newton
"Suitable for reading on your iPhone during passive commutes then rising exalted to peer over your fellow subway passengers."
Terry Teachout, About Last Night
"This is an amazing contribution. On behalf of readers everywhere, Meg, thanks!"
Carla Beard, Web English Teacher
"A very useful resource."
Linda Holmes, Monkey See, NPR
"A good example of what an annotated edition of a classic can be .... The design is very simple, giving prominence to the text and providing the reader with valuable information that complements the reading of the novel. Design allows a "clean" display of the text, hiding the annotations, or a full view with all the comments .... An excellent example of the potential such publications have."
Juliana Boersner, Papel en Blanco (in Spanish)
"Really quite attractively designed."
Paul Constant, The Stranger
"An impressively comprehensive piece of scholarship."
Minnesotan, Tywkiwdbi blog
"Reports of the Web's harmful effects upon reading habits have been greatly overstated. Two recent online projects sufficiently demonstrate that we're only just beginning to understand what the Web can do. The first is Power Moby-Dick ..."
Edward Champion, Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits
"Reading Moby-Dick can be pleasant, something that doesn't happen with all online books.... A very simple index directs you to very readable chapters with helpful notes about certain words. Stupendous for practicing English."
"If this is how classics can look in the computer age, I'm all for it. People will likely visit Gawker in greater numbers, but at least they have the option for something better."
John M. Williams, A Special Way of Being Afraid
"Moby-Dick annotated in a very accessible way. Incredibly useful full-text search, extra resources for students, wallpaper, and lots of extras."
Terry Elliot, The English Majors' Blog
"The website holds forth hope to high school students across America and anyone else who wants to actually read this leviathan novel."
Quietgal, Metafilter
"All of the references are quickly delineated. Strange words are defined and this book has a ton of strange words. It truly does make it more readable."
Matt Butcher, My Moby Dick
"A superannotated version of the immense Melville ubertome about love, loss, baleen, and vengeance."
Geoff Brown, Laser Pants
"What a great way to read a book.... If you teach Moby-Dick or you just enjoy the book, be sure to explore this site!"
Jo Schiffbauer, Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century
"Thar She Blows! Moby Monday on the Horizon," podcast by Peter Mello, Sea-Fever, Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, May 11, 2009
The Marc Steiner Show, WEAA-FM, Baltimore, Maryland, December 29, 2008.
"In the Belly of the Whale," by Margaret Guroff, Urbanite magazine, Baltimore, Maryland, December 2008
"Call Me Meg" by Robert White, Johns Hopkins magazine, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2008 (PDF, bottom of page)