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CliffsNotes (often, incorrectly, CliffNotes)
are a series of those bright yellow
student study guides available almost anywhere a
book may be found. The guides present and
explain literary and other works in a brief,
"easier" to read form. While we use
them mostly as we believe they help us readers
understand complex works, detractors say they
let us students avoid even reading them
completely.
CliffsNotes was started by a Nebraska native
named Clifton Hillegass in 1958. He was working
in a bookstore when he met the owner of a series
of Canadian study guides called Coles Notes.
Hillegass started with booklets covering 16
William Shakespeare titles, with the first being
Hamlet; CliffsNotes now exist on hundreds of
works. The term CliffsNotes has now come into
modern usage, as a noun for notes of a similar
nature to the original CliffsNotes books.
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