Changed my mind on buying the fancy annotated edition of 'Moby-Dick' for our club

I wasted $45 on the leather-bound version with footnotes nobody read, when the free library ebook had the same text and sparked a better debate last month.

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daniel_martin2mo ago

Footnotes only help if people actually read them.

vera5142mo ago

True tho. Most people just skip right past them.

lily702mo ago

But the footnotes can be a real game changer for debate.