Friday, April 8, 2016

[Joycean poweruser's toolkit]

Here's the reference sources I find myself using over and over for both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. (Take the time to put these prominently on your bookmarks bar, and preset them for your most common ranges):


desktop editions of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
(much more flexible than concordances or online editions)

Fweet
includes regular expressions, annotations (FW only)

Wiktionary
multilingual, so especially good for FW

Onelook
wildcard search of multiple reference sites

the 1909 Dublin map
for Ulysses

the 1901 census
for Ulysses, lots of subtle uses (eg religion, occupation, street address)

GoogleBooks
chaotic but huge

Hathi books
much crisper but narrower

ngrams
track phrase origins

CopyPaste
special characters, quick and easy

GoogleKeep
for chunks of text you reuse

PowerThesaurus
nice design


also: zamzar.com is easy for all kinds of file format conversions




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