I gave up on reading my used copy of the Gabler Ulysses not because I don’t want to read the book or have any strong opinion on the scandals swirling around the various editions, but because the entire first third of my Gabler is covered in distracting (though lovely) marginalia. So I picked up a pristine Modern Library edition and I’m ploughing through it more easily, though I do miss the notes from time to time.