I won’t lie, I definitely found this weeks readings somewhat difficult. So I figured, ‘Hey, why not take this opportunity to read some other blogs?.’ I found Jackie Mathews elaboration on Hypertext considerably elaborative which helped my understanding of the realm of Hypertext discussed by Landow, George in his, ‘Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization’… I can absolutely appreciate the technological advancement of the Hypertext. There’s no doubt to the simplicity of clicking a simple button and obtain the exact information you wish. You can’t do that in books. It’s a little harder… You’ve got to physically get up – which we all know is so unbearably straining on our poor lazy muscles- walk allllllll the way to the bookshelf in search for an endless encyclopedia of a considerable weight which alone isn’t worth the extra knowledge. But there’s something about a book that Hypertext will never satisfy. I can’t quite put my finger on it. I like that you can take a book anywhere and read it… you develop a connection with this physical object because, within it’s torn and damaged pages, lies an endless world of possibilities that you imagine within your mind through an interaction with the words on the page. I don’t know what it is about the online world… It’s somewhat different. Hypertext allows you knowledge with one simple click, that almost inhibits your ability to imagine… it almost inhibits your subjective interaction with the words on the page… But hey, I’m still learning about all this stuff… perhaps my opinion will change.