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A guide that stops
where you stop.

Tell the guide which chapter you're on. It shows the characters, places and story up to there, and leaves the pages ahead alone. It opens in your browser, next to whatever copy of the book you have.

Frankenstein guideMary Shelley · 1831 text
You're readingChapter 12

Chapter 11, in short

The creature remembers his first days: the forest near Ingolstadt, finding fire and food, being driven out of a village, and hiding in a hovel beside a cottage.

Still open

  • What is the creature's tale, and how will it explain what he has done?
  • What does the creature want Victor to agree to?

Chapters 12 to 24 stay hidden until you move forward.

What the guide shows while you read chapter 12.
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01 Open now

The guide you can
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02 Using a guide

Three steps,
while you read.

  1. 1

    Pick where you are

    Open the guide and choose the letter or chapter you're reading right now. You don't need to have finished it.

  2. 2

    Look things up

    The guide covers everything up to the last section you finished. The one you're in stays out, so looking up a name can't spoil the page in front of you.

  3. 3

    Move forward as you go

    When you finish a section, move the picker forward. Your browser remembers your place, and so does the link if you bookmark it. When you reach the end of the book, mark it finished to open everything.

03 Inside a guide

What you've met so far,
in one place.

The panel

The first thing you see after picking your place. It recaps the section you just finished, says who was in it and lists what it left unanswered.

Characters and places

A profile for everyone you've met and every place the story has been, written as of your chapter. Search only finds what you've already read about.

Mysteries

The questions the story has raised so far. An answer shows up only once you've read the chapter that gives it.

Timeline

How the tension rises and falls up to your chapter, with a short recap of each chapter you've read.

Every fact has a source

Each fact names the chapter it comes from, so you can check it against your book. If something looks wrong, you can report it from the guide.

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04 Guide or app

Two ways to keep your place.

Both follow the same rule: nothing past your chapter. The difference is where you read and who keeps track of your place.

AAlongside your book

A reading guide

Read a paperback, a library copy or another app, and keep the guide open beside it. You tell it which chapter you're on.

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BInside your reader

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Read your own book file in the app with a matching Skin, and it follows along as you turn pages. Not every book with a guide has a Skin yet, so check the app's catalog first.

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05 Where it comes from

Made from the book,
checked against it.

We prepare each guide from the book's own text with AI help, then review it against that text. Every fact keeps a pointer to the chapter it came from, which is how the guide knows when to show it.

Frankenstein is in the public domain, and its guide isn't affiliated with any of the book's publishers. Guides can get things wrong. When you report a mistake, we fix it.

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