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Volume I of VII, Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
PG 2701Vol. I
Moby Dick
Herman Melville, 1851
A whaling voyage that turns into one man's pursuit of the whale that maimed him.
It opens like a book.
Two boards, a sewn block, a hinge. Keep scrolling.
- iShut
- iiTurned to the light
- iiiThe bookmark comes out
- ivThe board lifts
- vLeaves cross the gutter
- viOpen at chapter one
Left at page 7.The bookmark keeps the place.
The read
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0:010:36
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- Kept on the device once rendered, so a train tunnel changes nothing.
Pride and Prejudice
Chapter I
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his lady to him one day, “have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?”
Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.
Drop. It binds. Read.
01/ 06
A file.
middlemarch.pdf, dragged out of a downloads folder and dropped on the page. EPUB and Word work the same way.
- 01A file
- 02Read for its parts
- 03Boards, spine, pages
- 04A book
- 05It opens
- 06Page one
The season keeps score.
184hours read, all time
- Books finished
- 12
- Days in a row
- 28
- Badges earned
- 11 of 12
- Rank this season
- Centurion II
Centurion III at 13,680 XP. The season resets on the 1st.
Seven ranks, climbed again each month
- SerfFrom 0 XP3 tiers
- AuxiliaryFrom 900 XP3 tiers
- CitizenFrom 2,700 XP3 tiers
- LegionaryFrom 5,400 XP5 tiers
- CenturionFrom 10,800 XPYou, tier II
- PraetorFrom 18,000 XP5 tiers
- ConsulTop 500 past 18,000 XP
| No. | Reader | Rank | Streak | Books | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quietfolio | Consul | 61 days | 19 | 26,840 |
| 2 | anadiomene | Consul | 44 days | 15 | 19,310 |
| 3 | marginalia | Centurion V | 33 days | 9 | 16,905 |
| 4 | slowtom | Centurion III | 19 days | 22 | 14,020 |
| 5 | wrenyou | Centurion II | 28 days | 12 | 12,480 |
| 6 | lanternhours | Centurion I | 12 days | 7 | 11,770 |
| 7 | seawolf | Legionary V | 9 days | 31 | 9,905 |
A sample season. Sign in and choose a display name to join the board, and leave it from the same page whenever you like. Reading on your own, offline, still climbs every rank below Consul.
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