home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!yale.edu!jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu!crawford
- From: crawford@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (James E Crawford)
- Subject: Re: Hypertext fiction, novels
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.212500.16539@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- References: <1992Nov15.214615.19592@macc.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:25:00 GMT
- Lines: 14
-
- Let me preface this by saying I am a big fan of Voyager, and I like
- their "expanded book" concept, but, let's face it... it isn't hypertext.
-
- Voyager's software allows you to add little annotations to the texts,
- but each book is designed as a stand-alone, incapable of being linked
- to anything external. The text is read in a linear fashion, and is, to
- my thinking, little different than reading the text on a word processor.
-
- This isn't to say that they aren't useful; I am currently working through
- Susan Faludi's _Backlash_ from Voyager. But hypertexts, they are not; just
- high quality transcriptions of the texts to the computer.
-
- Jim Crawford
-
-