Oh how I remember the nights where my 3 siblings and I would be huddled on our bunk beds fighting over wether we would choose to enter the hidden forrest or abandoned carnival. Goosebumps Reader Beware You Choose the Scare was what us old folk used to get off on back before the times of Paranormal Activity or better yet blogs claiming real life horror stories.
Being able to choose where to go next kept suspense levels high, but there was nothing stopping us reading every page sequentially and ruining every possible ending the book hid from our small 8 year old eyes.
This example links directly to Douglas’s writing.
While those books were printed some 20+ years ago they were still interactive in the same way hypertext is. While both rely on the sequential to create a comprehendable story, they allow room for the reader to jump around the text with fluidity and ease, solely because the reader becomes active in a way that flipping one page after another never allowed.
-Felicia-
