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3,100 Fans Gather for 25-Hour Moby-Dick Reading Marathon
More than 3,100 literature lovers flocked to New Bedford, Massachusetts, to hear Herman Melville's classic novel read aloud for 25 straight hours. The 30-year tradition celebrates America's greatest novel in the city where Melville himself once set sail.