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Reading tips
Reading a hypertext such as this one is for most of us a new experience. There are multiple ways (called "paths") to read this hypertext:
- There is one so-called sequential path which will guide you through most of the text: Just follow the FORWARD links on the bottom of each page (in the box "Paths"). Clicking on BACK will bring you back on this same path.
- Note that not all of the parts of the text (called "modules") are included in this sequential path. Some modules are considered "side-paths" which you may or may not explore just as you like. The present module is an example of a side-path. You may easily recognise being on a side-path if you don't find a FORWARD link in the "Paths" box. In this case just follow the BACK link to go back to the main path.
- Note that your browser's BACK and FORWARD buttons do something different compared to the BACK and FORWARD links in the "Paths" box of each module: Your browser logs the history of your reading. Clicking the BACK button does not always bring you back to or on the main path but will also follow all links on side-paths you may have explored – exactly in the order you have just visited them.
- Another pre-set path is the one for the path for the 'hasty' reader, interested in the core arguments and elements of the text. Just follow the SHORT link in the "Paths" box. This will lead you to only a selected number of modules.
- You may, however, also follow the various links just as you find them attractive and worth exploring hereby creating your own personal associative path through the hypertext. Use the history stored by your browser software and accessible via the BACK and FORWARD buttons of the browser (see above) to backtrack your path.
- A little green asterixe (*) in front of a link indicates that this is an external link, i.e. leading outside of the present hypertext. Pages to be reached via such links do not have any backwards links to lead you back. You need to use the BACK button of your browser to come back.
- Clicking on "Front page" will always bring you back to the start page.
- One additional way to explore this hypertext is by starting from the abstract and follow the links from there.
- Furthermore you may chose to look up the structure of the whole hypertext by clicking on the Structure link, also present in each module's Paths box, and explore the various modules from there.
- The box "Modules linking to here" is one additional way to explore the hypertext. The more links you find in this section, the more central this modules is.
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