HYPERTEXT: It Differs in More Ways Than That!
After spending a couple of days honing language on A Bottle of Beer, I went onto the site as a reader–not logging in, and therefore, presented with a different manipulation of story. And then, as I do with all stories I write, I read it out loud.
Wow. It’s like reading a good night story to a child. The small portions of text that are restricted by the boxes force a pause while the mind then tells the reader to click to go further–either on a portion of highlighted text or the bottom arrows that lead to the next ‘page.’ But the reading pattern does sound like the bedtime reading, focusing on just that block of text at a time, the pause at the end to insure that all has been read before moving on to the next.
Interesting.
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