Downloadable Ebook

Sahas Subramanian and John Hunt

An epub edition of Ulysses with Annotations, an Index of Notes, and a Preface addressed primarily to first-time readers can be downloaded here, enabling offline reading of the annotated novel. Some features of the website are not available in the ebook: multimedia content, cross-linking of notes, variable pagination, supplementary resources, lists of sources and contributors, date and authorship of notes. For more information about the two platforms and the notes displayed on them, see the Preface. The first file below features colored note numbers, also discussed in the Preface. If your reader cannot support the colors, the second link will download a monochrome version.

The ebook is updated every Sunday with new notes and revisions from the website.


The ebook uses recent features of the epub format which are not well supported by all ebook readers. Based on what your reader app or device supports, you may be able to resize the font, use a dark theme, and read notes in popup boxes. Below are notes on several readers which we have tested.

The Books reader (formerly iBooks) which comes pre-loaded on all Apple devices is capable of rendering the notes in popup windows with scroll bars. The iOS version works well on iPads but has not yet been tested on iPhones. On MacOS, performance is unsatisfactory: popups open at the end of each note, and there is no scroll bar to go back to what lies above.

The BookReader and Adobe Digital Editions apps both work well on Apple laptops and desktops, but neither of them supports popups: clicking on a number takes you to the appropriate spot in the Annotations at the back of the book. BookReader sometimes has trouble rendering lines of verse.

For Android devices, two apps can display the notes in popup boxes. Cool Reader is able to display the note colors even when using a dark theme. When you add a book to Google Play Books, it gets uploaded to the cloud, so it is available across devices and the app remembers your place across devices. There is also a web reader which remembers your place in the book, but this version doesn’t support popups, instead taking you back and forth between the novel’s chapters and the Annotations at the end.

The Calibre app is available for all desktop operating systems and can display the notes in popup boxes. Its rendering of the ebook has been tested on Linux but not yet on Windows or MacOS.

Foliate, an ebook app for Linux, is able to display the notes in compact popup boxes with scroll bars. It tries to adjust the font size of the notes, so when things like verses are hard to read in the popup boxes, a button on the popup box takes you to the full view of the note at the end of the book.