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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
"Surely this is the best Internet adaptation of a classic yet ...
an excellent example of how to exploit the hypertext capacities of web browsers to complement the text of a novel with notes, explanations of words, interpretative points, etc."
Xavier Caballé, Diari d'un llibre vell (in Catalán)
"A charming site worthy of recognition. This online edition of Moby-Dick is attractive and amazingly comfortable to read... Simply enjoyable!"
Kinneret Zmora Dvir Publishing House blog (in Hebrew)
"I really like this elegantly annotated online version of Moby-Dick. Simple and well designed."
Brian Cassidy, Book Patrol
"No excuse not to read it now, is there? I think this very clever. It even has a glossary."
Joyce Godsey, Bibliophile Bookpen
"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 annotated version that reminds me very much of David Foster Wallace's 'Host.'"
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."
El bibliómano (in Spanish)
"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
"I adore this magnificent annotated online edition of Moby-Dick. I would love to do something similar for David Copperfield or Great Expectations.
Gayla, Beautiful Screaming Lady
"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
"Check out this awesome site for an annotated online version of Moby-Dick, filled to the gills (so to speak) with interesting references and definitions. Highly recommended by yours truly."
Tom Lichtenberg, Pigeon Weather
"A superannotated version of the immense Melville ubertome about love, loss, baleen, and vengeance."
Geoff Brown, Laser Pants
"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)
Smart Talk Q&A with Margaret Guroff, Smart Woman magazine, Baltimore, Maryland, October 2008